文档介绍：CHIROPRACTIC
TEXTBOOK
R. W. STEPHENSON, ., .
CHIROPRACTIC
TEXTBOOK
BY
RALPH W. STEPHENSON, ., .
Illustrations by the Author
DAVENPORT, IOWA
Published by The Palmer School of Chiropractic
1948 Edition
COPYRIGHT, 1927
BY
THE PALMER SCHOOL of CHIROPRACTIC
PRINTED IN THE .
DR. PALMER S LETTER OF APPROVAL OF
CHIROPRACTIC TEXTBOOK
Dear “Stevie”:
I could not blame you if you have grown impatient at my
apparent silence in not giving you an expression of my opinion
regarding your MSS. which you submitted for my approval or
disapproval.
I have been doing some writing, taking my time to think it over
carefully; and, between times when tired, I would go over another
chapter of your book.
This is Sunday and I have just finished it. Of ALL the books
written piled on Chiropractic Philosophy, this is by far the
best, not excepting my own. The one great, grand and glorious
thing you HAVE done has been pile the many principles
which are in my writings, into a systematic, organized manner,
building them up from simple to the higher forms, so that any
layman inclined could investigate and find out what
CHIROPRACTIC IS, IS NOT; WHAT IT DOES AND DOES
NOT; HOW AND WHY IT DOES WHAT IT DOES. YOU have
clearly, carefully and piled the many
PRINCIPLES of Chiropractic into a readable, understandable
book, simple enuf for the layman, deep enuf for the savant.
My writings are many. They are in one form or another; either
here or there. Each subject is exhaustive. If any person wanted full
plete information on a specific subject, then
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he should go to the special monograph on that subject, but, if he
wants the working approximate principle then in your book he gets
them all.
Where has always been a void in Chiropractic literature.
Assuming an understanding mind asks where he can get a book
which would tell him what Chiropractic is—I have always felt that
there was no one specific work that we c