Judge, 1924-02-02 · page 25 of 37
Judge — February 2, 1924 — page 25: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is **not satire or a cartoon**—it's a **straightforward advertisement** for chiropractic medicine, placed in *Judge* magazine. The page promotes chiropractic as a legitimate health profession, claiming it grew from a single founder's idea in 1905 to the "second largest health profession" with 25,000 practitioners and state government recognition. The advertisement emphasizes chiropractic's success **despite** opposition from established medical professions and unfavorable laws, framing this as proof of merit rather than a sign of questionable practice. The definition box explains the basic principle: spinal adjustment to restore nerve function. This reflects the historical period (likely 1920s) when chiropractic was still fighting for legitimacy against medical establishment resistance. The ad's defensive tone—stressing independent growth without government funding and success among patients "other methods failed"—reveals the profession was still considered controversial by mainstream medicine, even as it gained state recognition.
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By Merit Alone, Chiropractic has grown from an idea in the mind of one man in 1905, to the second largest health profession in the world. There are now approximately 25,000 prac- titioners, more than a hundred schools and about 15,000 students. Twenty-six state governments have recog- nized the science as distinct and different from anything else on earth. axe DEFINITION Q In less than eighteen years, this growth has he practice of Chiropractic been effected, not only without the aid of other pry senestviptoctorsy cans professions engaged in getting the sick well, but spinal column to normal posi- tion for the purpose of releas- in spite of their utmost efforts to prevent it. ing the prisoned impulse, Noy a es Chiropractic has never had a single dollar of endowment from state or national govern- ments. It has overcome the prejudice of the public, the opposition of other professions in- tent on its extermination, and adverse laws in every state in the Union. It has recruited its patients from among those upon whom other methods failed, and with these failures of other methods upon which to prove its efficiency, it has made the most phenomenal growth of any health profes- sion in the history of the world. A FAIR TRIAL OF CHIROPRACTIC WILL CONVINCE YOU OF ITS MERIT Write for information regarding Chiropractors or Schools to the Universal Chiropractors’ Association, Davenport, lowa, U.S. A. All Rights Reserved comicbooks.com