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• As
early as 1921, the medical profession validated chiropractic
Henry Winsor, a Medical Doctor in Haverford , Pennsylvania asked
the question:
"Chiropractors claim that by adjusting one vertebra, they can relieve
stomach troubles and ulcers; by adjusting another, menstrual
cramps; and by adjusting others conditions such as kidney diseases, constipation,
heart disease, thyroid conditions, and lung disease may resolve – but
how?"
Dr. Winsor decided to investigate this new science and art of healing-
chiropractic.
• DISSECTIONS
After graduating from medical school, Dr. Winsor was inspired by
chiropractic and osteopathic literature to experiment. He planned
to dissect human and animal cadavers to see if there was a relationship
between any diseased internal organ discovered on autopsy and the
vertebrae associated with the nerves that went to the organ. As
he wrote:
" The object of these necropsies was to determine whether any connection
existed between curvatures of the spine, and diseased organs;
or whether the two were entirely independent of each other."
•UNIVERSITY PERMISSION
The University of Pennsylvania gave Dr. Winsor permission to carry
out his experiments. In a series of three studies he dissected
a total of seventy-five human and twenty-two cat cadavers . The
following are Dr. Winsor's results:
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221 structures other than the spine were found diseased. Of these,
212 were from the same sympathetic (nerve) segments as the vertebrae
in curvature. Nine diseased organs belonged to different sympathetic
segments from the vertebrae out of line. These figures cannot be
expected to exactly coincide…for an organ may receive sympathetic
filaments from several spinal segments and several organs may
be supplied with sympathetic (nerve) filaments from the same
spinal
segments. In other words, there was nearly a 100% correlation
between minor curvatures of the spine and diseases of the internal
organs."
• IN CONCLUSION
Dr. Winsor's results are published in The Medical Times and are
found in any medical library. Winsor was not alone in his findings.
Similar studies by other researchers have confirmed Dr. Winsor's
conclusion that degenerated and misaligned spines have a high correlation
with disease processes.
• Reference:
All quotes from: Winsor, H. Sympathetic segmental disturbances – II.
The evidences of the association, in dissected cadavers, of visceral
disease with vertebral deformities of the same sympathetic segments,
The Medical Times , November 1921, pp./ 267-271. |
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