DD Palmer First Four Postulates

Four Postulates

1. disease is not an entity 2. disease is not an enemy 3. disease is an abnormal performance of certain functions 4. abnormal activity has its causes r

Disease is a lack of co-ordination between Innate, the source of power, and its expression. Who said it?

DD Palmer

The purpose of an adjustment is NOT to depress or NOT to stimulate, BUT to remove interference's with transmission, or pressures, from the affected nerve thus restoring normal nerve supply Who said it?

Dr. C. S. Cleveland

Disease starts out first as malfunction and malfunction has its causes. Who said it?

Fred Barge

Something DD Palmer wanted to know

Why?

Health is a condition in which the organism is in _________________ to its surroundings

complete adaptation

The body in disease does not develop any new form of ________; what it already possesses is ___________or ___________, perverted or abolished

energy; diminished; increased

the state or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something

enmity

Disease is not a state; it is a _________

process

What is tone?

the normal degree of nerve tension

DD Palmer believed that life is the expression of _________

tone