Chiropractor’s Creed: A Poem and Philosophical View to Health
Chiropractor’s Creed: A Poem and Philosophical View to Health
While at a friend’s office this past week I saw sign on her wall that caught my attention. This poem, originally found in the book, Chiropractic Thots, was entitled “The Chiropractor’s Creed” and was written by Dr. J G Gregorson. Later, this poem was borrowed by Dr. B.J. Palmer, and made popular under the new title of, “The Truth.”
“We Chiropractors work with the subtle substance of the soul. We release the imprisoned impulse — the tiny rivulet of force — that emanates from the mind and flows over the nerves to cells and stirs them into life. We deal with the majestic power that transforms common food into living, loving clay; that robes the earth with beauty, and hues and scents the flowers with the glory of the air.”
“In the dim, dark, distant long ago when the sun first bowed to the morning star, this power spoke and there was life; it quickened the slime of the sea and dust of the earth and drove the cell to union with its fellows in countless living forms. Through eons of time, it finned the fish and winged the bird and fanged the beast. Endlessly it worked, evolving its forms until it produced the crowning glory of them all. With tireless energy it blows the bubble of each individual life and then silently, relentlessly dissolves the form, and absorbs the spirit into itself again.”
“And yet you ask “Can Chiropractic cure appendicitis or the flu?” Have you more faith in a spoonful of medicine than in the power than animates the living world?”
What are your thoughts on the roll of a chiropractor, based on this creed?