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 to bony deposit. Following any of these conditions, the theory holds, are functional or organic disturbances, acute becoming chronic. Nerves are pinched or impinged, and, as the circulation of the blood to an organ depends upon its nerve control, organic mechanism is interfered with, and disease begins.

Chiropractics is defined as "a system of therapeutic treatment for disease through the adjustment of the articulations of the human body, particularly those of the spine, with the object of relieving pressure or tension upon nerve filaments." As in Osteopathy, the operations are performed with the hands, no drugs being administered.

The two theories above presented are seen to be most closely related. But, it must be obvious that each school is reasoning from effect to cause when the claim is advanced that spinal lesions primarily lower nutrition. Muscles built when a state of mal-nutrition exists are not adequate for the work of supporting the bony structure with the delicate adjustment that combines strength with the necessary degree of flexibility. Barring displacement of vertebrae through an accident that forcibly disturbs the arrangement of the