Medicine: Pain in the Neck

Chiropractors who will eventually read Dr. Samuel Sunny Hantlig's article in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association are certain to raise a loud shout of "Copy Cat!" Dr. Hantlig, 34, Boston orthopedist, goes chiropractors one better by actually hanging patients until he cures them of pains in the neck, shoulder, arms, heart. The principle of his treatment is precisely that of chiropractors. By stretching necks and pulling vertebrae apart, he releases pressure on nerves branching out of the spine and thereby removes the causes of aches and pains.

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