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Winsor Autopsies
Validated Chiropractic
* As early as 1921, the medical profession validated
chiropractic.
Henry Winsor, a medical doctor in Haverford,
Pennsylvania asked the question: "Chiropractors claim that by adjusting one
vertebra, they can relieve stomach troubles and ulcers; by adjusting
another, menstrual cramps; and by adjusting others conditions such as kidney
diseases, constipation, heart disease, thyroid conditions, and lung disease
may resolve – but how?"
Dr. Winsor decided to investigate this new science and
art of healing- chiropractic.
* DISSECTIONS
After graduating from medical school, Dr. Winsor was
inspired by chiropractic and osteopathic literature to experiment. He
planned to dissect human and animal cadavers to see if there was a
relationship between any diseased internal organ discovered on autopsy and
the vertebrae associated with the nerves that went to the organ. As he
wrote: "The object of these necropsies was to determine whether any
connection existed between curvatures of the spine, and diseased organs; or
whether the two were entirely independent of each other."
* UNIVERSITY PERMISSION
The University of Pennsylvania gave Dr. Winsor
permission to carry out his experiments. In a series of three studies he
dissected a total of seventy-five human and twenty-two cat cadavers. The
following are Dr. Winsor's results: "221 structures other than the spine
were found diseased. Of these, 212 were from the same sympathetic (nerve)
segments as the vertebrae in curvature. Nine diseased organs belonged to
different sympathetic segments from the vertebrae out of line. These figures
cannot be expected to exactly coincide…for an organ may receive sympathetic
filaments from several spinal segments and several organs may be supplied
with sympathetic (nerve) filaments from the same spinal segments. In other
words, there was nearly a 100% correlation between minor curvatures of the
spine and diseases of the internal organs."
* IN CONCLUSION
Dr. Winsor's results are published in The Medical Times
and are found in any medical library. Winsor was not alone in his findings.
Similar studies by other researchers have confirmed Dr. Winsor's conclusion
that degenerated and misaligned spines have a high correlation with disease
processes.
* Reference:
All quotes from: Winsor, H.
Sympathetic segmental disturbances – II. The evidences of the association, in
dissected cadavers, of visceral disease with vertebral deformities of the same
sympathetic segments, The Medical Times , November 1921, pp./ 267-271.
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