Must we study and spend hours on the disease of these organs or
tissues, all to be discarded when we adjust the cause? Must we study
these branches just to “talk intelligently to the patient?” Must we include
urinalysis just to continue to travel in dead men’s shoes and follow dead
men’s customs? Must we swindle,fool, misinstruct the public, just to make
the gullible, the unthinking public look up to and revere us for the things
they think we have , for the things they hope we will do, for the faith and
belief they would place in us like the superstitions in some metal or stone
idol? Or can we afford to ask them to think with us, in forestalling this
superstition, and replacing theory with fact? The Science of Chiropractic,
B.J. Palmer Vol. V, 1922 p. 307
