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What Profession Shall a Man
a Woman Take Up Today?
Opportunities Offered by the Revolution
In Drugless Healing
"Only a few years ago," said a successful
practitioner to a patient, "I would have
flooded your system with drugs and trusted
to God to bring you out whole. Now you
see I am not using a drug of any kind and
you are getting well."
Is the ancient and honorable profession
of medicine undergoing a revolution ? Are
new opportunities opening for men in a science
of healing which has discarded the
methods of antiquity and is performing in
every day practice what would once have
been called medical feats?
Take the evidence from the great men of
the "old school". Let those whose standing
is such that they can speak with authority
and without fear tell you how the practice
of medicine is going through the process of
remaking, which means the use of natural
methods instead of drugging and blind experiments—the
elimination of dosing.
A physician of world-wide fame, the head
of the medical department of a famous university,
says: "The best physician is the one
who knows the worthlessness of most medicines."
A noted Scotch professor announces
that "Nine times out of ten, our miscalled
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remedies are injurious to our patients." One
of the most popular of all medical writers
states that "next after disease, the struggle
of the coming doctor will be against drugs."
And says a former President of the American
Medical Association: "Drugs with the exception
of two are valueless as cures."
The fallacy of trying to club people back
to health by the use of drugs was really discovered
over a hundred years ago by a group
of physicians in Bohemia. These scientists
found that the cause of practically all disease
lies in the pressure of misplaced vertebrae on
the nerves which pass from the spinal cord
to the affected parts of the body; and that
removal of this pressure brings relief and cure.
And now comes the great profession of
Chiropractic organized by American doctors
upon the principles discovered by these
Bohemians, which discards drug treatment
and cures its patients by reaching the very
seat of the trouble, relieving the abnormal
pressure and re-establishing the normal nerve
currents.
This great system of drugless healing has
brought to the human race relief from the
treatment of mere symptoms and freedom
from dosing with nauseous, poisonous compounds
which so often have left in their train
ailments more serious than those they were
supposed to cure.
Again we find the most progressive of the
"regular" M. D.'s bringing their testimony
to support the cause of drugless healing as
presented by Chiropractic. Here are some
of the statements made by medical men who
are broad minded enough to acknowledge the
short-comings of old methods and to recognize
what has been accomplished by this better
way of curing disease.
"It is the most logical and scientific
method of curing ills," says the former Chief
Surgeon of one of our greatest hospitals.
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