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...regular doctor in Chicago, in Illinois or in the U. S. last week who had anything but supreme contempt for the medical theories of "Dr." Oakley Smith and his 200 followers who helped him celebrate the 25th anniversary of Naprapathy. "Dr." Smith was a kind of chiropractor when he conceived these theories and invented the name "Naprapathy" from the Czech naprava ("correction") and the Greek pathos ("suffering"). Naprapaths claim that all disease is due to shrunken ligaments ("ligatights") pressing upon nerves. The naprapath tries to ease the pressure by manipulating the "ligatights," somewhat after the fashion of the chiropractor...
...know that he had appointed a chiropractor to the State Osteopathic Board...
Last month a new kind of attack came to harass the chiropractors of Paterson, N. J. By last week it was indisputable that someone was making a systematic attempt to rob them not simply of their livelihoods but of their lives. On July 17 Chiropractor Alfred Post took his automobile to a garage for repairs. A mechanic lifted the engine hood, had a small bomb explode in his face. Week later, too hurried to drink his usual luncheon malted milkshake at his office, Dr. Post gave it to a Negro elevator operator Last week the Negro was still partially paralyzed...
...days later someone snapped an electric light switch in the joint office of Chiropractors Charles Baumler and Peter J. Barbour. Two bombs attached to the light system splintered the office, injuring Dr. Barbour and four patients. In an adjoining office a typist named Helen Bosland "felt something snap" in her head. Afterwards she complained of severe headaches. One day last week she died, of sinus trouble and heart dilation. Week ago Chiropractor William Cooper was awakened by a baby crying next door, got up and turned on the lights of the bathroom in the rear of his house. He heard...
...kidnapped by three escaping convicts, driven in his own car to Wake Forest, N. C., freed. A St. Paul physician named Walter H. Hedberg said he was shot through the ear, beaten, drugged, left in his car in the path of a train when he refused to mutilate a chiropractor at the request of thugs who seized him. What to Do. The kidnapping and killing of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. changed the law of the land. Because abduction across a state line is now a Federal offense (punishable one year to life imprisonment), the Department of Justice's Bureau...