Lineage
Invisible vital force
A historical comparison of systems built around an unseen force or fluid said to organize health, vitality, and disease.
THE THREAD
THROUGH-LINE
Historical members gave different names to an organizing agency and supported it through practitioner authority and testimony. Any present member's operation and evidence status remain confined to that member's Case and sources.
The historical record includes systems built around unseen forces or fluids said to organize health, vitality, and disease. This page groups source-backed comparison edges for navigation. Any present member’s operation and evidence status are stated only in that member’s Case and attached sources; historical outcomes do not transfer.
At least one member intervention continues, but this thread does not assert a representative present endpoint.
CASES IN THIS LINEAGE
- Animal magnetism (mesmerism) (1778–1784)
- Celestial Bed and Temple of Health (1780–1794)
- Magnetic somnambulism (artificial somnambulism) (1784–1820)
- Homeopathy (Hahnemann's system of medicine) (1796–1843) · CONTINUING
- Chiropractic (vertebral subluxation adjustment) (1895–present) · CONTINUING
- Orgone Energy Accumulator (1940–1957)
EDGE EVIDENCE
Chiropractic (vertebral subluxation adjustment)
- Old Dad Chiro: his thoughts, words, and deeds (2010)
- An epidemiological examination of the subluxation construct using Hill's criteria of causation (2009)
current continuity: Chiropractic controversy and criticism (Wikipedia), Palmer College of Chiropractic (Wikipedia), A united statement of the global chiropractic research community against the pseudoscientific claim that chiropractic care boosts immunity, The global summit on the efficacy and effectiveness of spinal manipulative therapy for the prevention and treatment of non-musculoskeletal disorders: a systematic review of the literature
FRAMING SOURCES