Los Angeles Chiropractic College - Aesculapian Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Anatornioal Laboratory Concluding the classroom study of anatomy, students arrive at dissection eager to correlate their knowledge of the human body. Ample opportunity is provided in the anatomical laboratory, rated one of the best equipped on the Pacific coast. Practically odorless -- welcome progress f om the days when formaldehyde fumes smarted students eyes and mummified the cadavers -- the laboratory is equipped with ten refrigerated vaults. The temperature is thermostatically controlled at 40 de- grees, thereby preserving tissues in a pliable state. By dissection procedures, anatomical relationships are embodied firmly in the memory. Various organs may be thoroughly explored in view of their physiologic functions and structural relationships. With dissection, the academic study of ana- tomy is finished -- yet, is never completed.

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Physiotherapy 4 , Prior to externship in the Glendale Chiropractic Clinic, one hundred and twenty hours of instruction in fundamentals of electro-physics and the operation of physiotherapy equipment is completed. The various laws of electricity and physics are applied to the use of such therapeutic adjuncts as: sine wave, galvanism, diathermy, percussion instruments, ultra- violet, infra-red, colonic irrigation and others. In the latter half of the Junior year time is devoted to actual operation of the various equipment and applicable therapy for disease conditions. Facilities of the Glendale Chiropractic Clinic include almost every modality of proven clinical value, and are available to the Senior during his clinical externship. X 35

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DR. THOMAS J. DUREN A.B., D.C. Psychiatry Psychiatry Already a specialist in the field of restoring proper nerve balance, the chiropractor's role in alleviating the incidence of mental disturbances becomes increasingly ap- parent. Disturbed neural balance has caused acute conditions in- volving the central nervous system as well as the peri- pheral system. Deafness, blindness, and aphonia caused by mechanical involvement of the nervous system have been relieved by manipulation plus the standard methods employed by all professions such as analysis, nutrition, vitamin and mineral supplementation, and psychic council are employed to achieve therapeutic response. Demonstrations of hypnotism are presented to point out the value of this type of therapy in releasing the conscious, thereby permitting access to the subconscious, which often is the site of the patient's difficulty.