1923: Patent medicines were still going strong, and the practice of chiropractic, often tinged with quackery, claims that nerve pressure prevents the all-important Vital Force from reaching your organs. It has a diagram, so it must be scientific.
The Friedman Building, where L.S. Blair practiced in Schenectady, is long since gone. It’s now the site of the MVP Health headquarters, across from Crescent Park, which is supposed to now be called Veterans Park. It was renamed after World War II, and yet the Crescent Park name just doesn’t seem to go away.
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