Chiropractic purpose
Dis-ease
A term tied to incoordination in Stephenson’s philosophical account.
The big idea
The hyphen is a useful cue to pause and ask how the author is using the word. Principle 30 connects dis-ease with interference and incoordination. Understanding that relationship is more helpful than treating the word as a list of named illnesses.
An everyday illustration
A band can have all its musicians present yet lose its timing. That illustrates incoordination within a group.
An original illustration to help explain the idea, not a quotation or evidence of a biological mechanism.
In the author’s words
“Interference with the transmission of Innate forces causes incoordination of dis-ease.”
1927 edition · PDF page 31
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Read it in context
The selected principle makes a broad causal claim in this historical system. Its wording does not establish that all diagnosed diseases share a single spinal cause.
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