• Gibbons RW

• Endo-Nasal Technique / history
• Lake, Thomas T., 1882-1950

Thomas T. Lake (1882 - 1950) was a neuropath and chiropractor who enjoyed an unusual association with allopathic and osteopathic physicians for most of his three decades of practice in the Philadelphia area. He continued the work of two medical educators in that city, John C. Arnold and W. Wallace Fritz, who developed and expanded what was first called Mechano-Neural Therapy and later Neuropathy. He founded the Philadelphia College of Neuropathy to continue Fritz's American College of Neuropathy, founded in 1908. Writing and lecturing on manipulative therapy for eye, ear, nose and throat called Endo-Nasal Therapy, he brought together a diverse group of allopathic and non-allopathic practitioners during and after World War II as the National Endo-Nasal, Aural and Allied Technique Society. Lake was a prolific author, completing four books between 1942 and 1946 on neuropathy, endo-nasal therapy, treatment of the prostate and psychiatry. He also edited a quarterly journal and lectured extensively on Endo-Nasal therapy. While he was accepted by many medical practitioners, Lake's own background is unclear. His work has continued in his books, all of which are in print, and in postgraduate classes offered in at least one chiropractic college. Lake was not only a pioneer in intra-disciplinary cooperation, but he also introduced and left most of the original work in this country on nonmedical EENT during a time when the scope of practice was yet to be fully defined for chiropractic.

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