Chiropractic Slugged

Chiropractic took a hard slugging in a Jamaica, L. I., court last week. William H. Werner, president of the American Bureau of Chiropractic, was on trial for practicing medicine without a license. His income from chiropractic treatments and teaching was figured to be $70,000 a year. Some 200 of his patients, who believed him a martyr, jammed into the courtroom where they caused so much disturbance that the trial judges had them ejected.

Chiropractor Werner was a martyr to his cause in one sense. Regular medicine, including homeopathy, uses drugs, surgery, physical therapeutics, every possible means to prevent and cure disease. Chiropractic in essence believes that spinal manipulations (one form of physical therapy) is sufficient to prevent and cure. A great many chiropractors have amplified this philosophy to include many of Medicine's teachings, as have osteopaths with their theory. Hence 40 States recognize chiropractic as a method. But not New York.

In New York when rich William H. Werner, doctor of chiropractic, treats the sick for pay, he has no more legal standing than a Pennsylvania "hexer." In court he proved an undiplomatic protagonist of his cause. He tried to harangue the judges on chiropractic. They squelched him and sentenced him to six months in the workhouse.

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