Technic and Practice of Chiropractic

Technic and Practice of Chiropractic is a second edition, revised and enlarged, by Joy Maxwell Loban. The table of contents lists, among others, Vertebral Palpation, Habits of Palpation, Preparation of Patient, Atlas Palpation and The Group Method.

The text describes how cell masses begin to migrate from the walls of the primitive neural tube to a position laterad to become the spinal ganglia. The text says the use of the Group Method may best be understood by the study of certain didactic instructions, including never to record or adjust two subluxations of contiguous vertebrae except in those unusual cases where they are equally subluxated and in the same direction. The text states that "Our clinical experience with diphtheria at least absolutely disproves the conclusions of Pasteur and others in regard to its origin." The text says its own examination of human and animal spines has thus far failed to discover any perfectly normal specimens.