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Show Chiropractors Are Gitfen New Hope Enactment of Senate Bills Means Much, Utah President Asserts. With the kV.hIiik of Ht'iiiilit bills 2U und 100 by Hut goviirnor t lie lintt 'regulation of chiropractic was euai i- ''I 'I' I'Ulll 'I'll lM Illillll'S 2-1 Stilt. In the union In which the new s.VMteiu has obtained remilat ion. According to ,il, Mtatoinent of l).-, Hosj II. .McCune, president of III" , I'lali Chiropractors' association, the two bills uiv considered as lulus; S H. 100 providing for the creation of n board of chiropractic examiners, ami defining what constitutes the practlci-(f practlci-(f chiropractic; and S.ll. 2;". sols the eilucal lonal a eiulrementil. "In renewing the long flhl Tor regulation that has been waged by the chlriiprnctora of the stale," President McCune stated, "iho fight began approximately lli yars nci when the first chiropractor canio Into I ho slate, This pioneer of the new system was Dr. I'.K. Kiliksnii of Salt Lake. Persecution and prosecution begun very soon after the now system began to demonstrate Its worn. ThU prosecution ciintii.ueil until tb(1 climax cli-max was reached when the iiie.lic.il board's efforts placed Hr. Hen It. Johnson In the Miintl Jail on the charg t of 'practicing medicine without with-out a medical licence.' It was proven In court that lr. Johnson had restored the hearing to a deaf and dumb child and he sSht to a widow who was born blind and who had never seen her five child: "U. 'i lie latter testified she was then able to see her children and had h.'r vision to si.ppoil them. However, a verdici of 'guilty' was obtained against the chiropractor because of the medical law which stated any work done io-' th sick In the way of treating them was -the practice of mod. cine II a fe" was received for the service. A fine of 1 00 was imposed upon !r Johnson, but he refused to pay thv same, dtnia i ing the treatment Ilia', restored the sight to a blind wide", was no offense against the law. II. was obliged to take the jail sentence to defeat the prosecution. "Since that time many chiropractors chiropract-ors have boon prosecuted on the churgj of 'practicing medicine' oven though It was proven not or. use! medicine, but the Injunction.' obi lined lin-ed against them were never er,f..re !. NLW KF.CI LATK ' PARTIAL VICTORY. "The present act as it now s' mil is no: fully approved by the chiropractors chiro-practors cf th-i state. We were uivess:i.il In obtaining a strali.ii' .-hlropractle board, defeating lh.' efforts of the med.ca. Influence lo have two of the exaining members moJical men. We also were success fill In obtaining a def.nlng clause In h'.ll No. 100. which definvs the practice prac-tice of chiropractic as the adjustment of the spine by the use of the hands only. This was considered a most vital point, since so ninny practionerv-of practionerv-of other melhols have been known t" change their shingle to that of liiro praetor because of the ino:e aucces of those practicing spinal aljust meats. It has bovn this class of practitoners that has do:.j chiropractic chiroprac-tic more damage in the mind J of the public than any other. The public has been Induced In'o the oftice of such members with the idea that chiropactic adjustments wer? to be given, but the treatment coiuisleJ ot violet rays. percussion. s;rctchii. e'.i and such work was branded chiropractic. chiro-practic. We have no Issue with the use- of these methods, but wo do take Issue with such methods misbranding mis-branding their work chiropractic thus deceiving the public. The new law- demands every practitioner mu ei advertise onlv what he truly practices OBJECTIONS TO THE BILLS. "W? nre pleased to obtain the creation of a straight chiropractic board with the reiiuirnients In d. 1'-No. 1'-No. 25. This bill, requires, lifter 1326, scholastic hours that our best chiropractic school does not give, but we feel the 1-gislature in 192a will see the inconsistency of such a requirement and provi ie for a normal nor-mal standard. The course as required re-quired after 1926 would provide a training for the chiropractic studetU with about 50 per cent, if not 7 5 per cent more hours in anatomy than the average medical course, despite the .fact that chiropractic student con-I con-I fines his work to the adjustment of the spine with the use of his handr. onlv, while the medical and surgical student fust know the anatomy intimately inti-mately enough to out into many parts an4 organs. However, the chiropractors chiro-practors have been asking for normal .educational requirements, are different differ-ent than those given by the proven recognized best school of chiropractic. REQCFST AN EXAMINATION. I "One feature ot the chiropractic .law which is different than any other regulation of the healing arts ever enacted in Utah, is the requirements require-ments of an examination of every . practitioner now In the state thai 'desires a license. This rcquesi .was made hy the chiropractors them-' them-' selves, as a means ot culling OJ1-those OJ1-those trulv not qualified to practice the -methods of spinal adjustments, and also as a means to offset, the pernicious per-nicious propaganda that chiropractors chiropract-ors do not take creditable trainim MoaJ Jot the chiropractors in the; stale are graduates from cofmend- able courses, but those who are net will be required to further qualify or cease their practice. "Considerable interest was manifested mani-fested by the people of Osden an.il Weber county in the present legls- lation as witnessed in the thousands; of signatures obtained to a petition recently submitted to the legislature.' |