Word: chiropractor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...injections for hay-fever last winter, was bundled off to the infirmary. When his sneezes showed no sign of letting up, alarmed school authorities sent him home to London. His parents called in, one after the other, two general practitioners, a hay-fever specialist, an otolaryngologist, a chiropractor and a hypnotist...
...experts gave Michael adrenaline packs, calcium muscular injections, diathermy; they stuffed paraffin up his nose, cauterized his nasal membranes, gave him nose & ear drops, hundreds of tablets. Chiropractor Lester Jelfs, who attributed the sneezing to a "nerve impingement" in Michael's spine, managed to reduce the sneezes to a mere 240 per hour by vigorous adjustment. But Michael had hardly left the chiropractor's office before the sneeze rate soared again. Hypnotist Norman Waters sent Michael into a deep trance and intoned: "You are not going to sneeze. When I snap my fingers you will wake...
...headaches, the other for hay fever. They were taken, unconscious, to the hospital at the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, died there a few hours later. The hospital doctors were puzzled: there were no signs of injury to the spine (the usual target of a chiropractor's manipulations), no clues to the cause of death. Autopsies on the patients' brains showed that the cerebellums were badly bruised and full of blood clots...
...Chiropractors were immediately and vocally outraged. Snapped a spokesman, Executive Secretary Sol Goldschmidt of the New York State Chiropractic Society: "The modern chiropractor does not use the strenuous adjustments of the past any more than the modern medical doctor practices bloodletting...
...true, Chiropractor Alva B. Scott admitted with dignity, he had originated (and practiced) a new healing art he chose to call "aetheronics." It cured diseases by remote control. What was more, he had witnesses...