The nerve system resembles an upside-down tree. The main trunk is suspended from the brain and the tiniest twigs end in the cells of the body.

 Distribution of nerves throughout the body is so intimate and extensive that if we could dissolve away all other tissues, we would still see the form and proportion of he body in gossamer, a phantom body made up entirely of nerves.

 When the nerve impulses flow smoothly and unimpeded as nature intends, a man enjoys health and a feeling of well-being. But when there is interference in normal nerve function, there is bound to be health trouble.

The spinal column is intended to protect the delicate spinal cord and the nerves leading from it. When it becomes misaligned, the column does not protect. Instead, the misaligned spinal bones impinge (pinch) vital nerves. This pinching action causes interference with normal nerve function .

In order to enjoy sound health, the individual must maintain an exact structural balance of the spinal column Anything less than that leads to poor health and a constant grasping after good health.

 It is the stresses and strains, knocks and bumps of living that sometimes overcome this balance. Just look at others around you: heads forward, slumped shoulders, hollow backs, protuberant bellies, knock knees and flat feet.

 You can be sure these people suffer from attendant health problems: heart trouble, stomach trouble, liver trouble, headaches, sinus trouble, sciatica and ear trouble are only a few. They may suffer from any of the nearly 400 different diseases or conditions caused by misaligned vertebrae pinching on nerves.

An adult spine is composed of twenty-four moveable bones called vertebrae Each vertebrae has the general shape of a person's ring. The rings are stacked one on top of another forming a vertical tunnel.

The delicate spinal cord-just thicker than a pencil -is suspended from the brain and extends down through the tunnel formed by the ring-like vertebrae. Smaller nerves lead from the spinal cord through openings between the vertebrae. These openings are called foramen The nerves emerge in pairs, one to the right and one to the left. There are thirty-one pairs of nerves. Each nerve goes to and controls a specific area of the body. When the spinal column is in proper alignment, the nerves pass unimpeded through the foramen. But when one or more vertebrae become misaligned, the nerve is impinged (pinched), and normal nerve function is cut off to the parts of the body served by that nerve.

Sometimes misaligned vertebrae correct themselves. But most subluxations need outside assistance for correction That assistance is chiropractic care.

The principle of chiropractic was discovered September 18, 1895 by Dr. Daniel Palmer in Davenport, Iowa. On that day, Palmer was in his office carrying on a shouted conversation with the deaf janitor of the building, Harvey Lillard.

Lillard was explaining in shouts to Palmer that about 17 years earlier while working in a cramped, stooped position, something had "popped" in his back Since that time, his hearing had become progressively worse.

Dr. Palmer, a curious, intelligent man, examined Lillard's back and found a painful, misaligned vertebra at the spot where something had "popped" 17 years earlier. He suspected a connection between this misaligned vertebra and Lillard's impaired hearing-and reasoned that if something had gone wrong in his back and caused deafness, the correction of the misaligned vertebra should bring back Lillard's hearing.

Using his hands, Palmer repositioned the vertebra with a gentle thrust. Lillard's hearing improved immediately. In that moment, Palmer made the breakthrough that had eluded the greatest medical minds of all the ages ... he had discovered the cause of nearly all human disease.

During the next few days, Palmer continued the hand treatments on Lillard's spine. Within a week, Lillard was able to hear as well as anybody and was telling anybody who would listen about Dr. Palmer's hand treatments.

Dr. Palmer's fame quickly spread as he proved that the hand treatments were effective in all sorts of disease conditions. He became a world-renowned specialist in the spine and nerve system.

His research into the cause of disease had led him to the conclusion that misalignment of the spinal column interferes with normal nerve function and thus, an alteration of normal body functions.

Everyone knows that pinched nerves in a broken back can cause partial paralysis of the legs and that if nerves are severely compressed, complete paralysis results.

Why then do some of us shut our minds to the same pinched nerve probability when (for instance) the lungs, heart, stomach or other parts of the body become diseases? Such thinking is inconsistent.

Lung, heart and stomach conditions need the same consideration that more obvious forms of paralysis receive. Tissue deprived of nerve energy (impulses) cannot maintain health without nerve guidance from the brain.

Chiropractors do not need to give medicine to cure the sick. They know that nature provides each person with a built-in druggist capable of compounding medicines, hormones, enzymes and antibiotics. Just as there is a health kit inside your body that heals cuts, mends broken bones and repairs damaged organs ... so is there a doctor on the inside who can prescribe everything you need...in the exact dose needed ... and without harmful side effects. The human body is capable of healing itself of every known disease provided nothing interferes with normal nerve function

The Doctor of chiropractic works with the spine and nerve. He was the first to recognize that spinal bones (vertebrae), twisted even slightly out of place, impinge the major nerve trunks at the point where they pass through the small openings between the vertebrae, thus causing pain and disease.

You'll fund your chiropractor to be an intelligent, scientifically trained doctor. Many years of professional schooling in basic and clinical sciences have given him the necessary background for discretion and judgment in caring for the sick and diseased.

He knows that each patient is an individual that each spinal column is different ... and that each spinal column needs specific chiropractic care.

The chiropractor is the only doctor in your community with the know-how to restore normal nerve function, the natural way to lasting health .