Lesta and Chiropractic

Late in the summer of 1916, William and Carrie Raschka sent their 18-year-old daughter, Lesta, for chiropractic treatment at Fort Wayne, Indiana. While there, no doubt she stayed at the home of her uncle and aunt, Charles and Ella Olson.

I don't know what medical problem they were hoping to correct. It may have been the lingering effect of an illness in the summer of 1912, which the Hobart News could only describe as "a sort of paralysis, causing one side of her body to be dumb and motionless." The News did not follow up that report with any news of her recovery, nor have there been any reports of her suffering any other illness or injury.

Chiropractic was then about 20 years old, having begun in Davenport, Iowa, in 1895.

As September drew toward its close, Lesta was still in Fort Wayne. Her treatment was going well, at least according to her chiropractor, who had "much hope for her complete recovery."


Sources:
♦ "A Sad Case." Hobart News 11 July 1912.
♦ "Personal and Local Mention." Hobart News 21 Sept. 1916.