Technic and Practice of ChiropracticLoban, Joy Maxwell
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Technic and Practice of Chiropractic
Loban, Joy Maxwell
Chiropractic
Fever due to vertebral subluxation alone without any secondary cause
operating is very rare. Ordinarily fevers come about in this way. A
subluxation occurs which weakens tissue and permits germ invasion;
toxins enter the circulation from the germ action and motor reaction
increases the original subluxation and causes local inflammation; germ
activity is favored by the increasing degree of abnormality and toxins
from rapid tissue destruction are added to those already present.
The poison-loaded blood then affects the general centers for heat
regulation, blood becomes internally engorged, and a chill (internal
fever) followed by general increase of temperature occurs. At this
juncture any subluxation previously existing is likely to be increased
and to add its quota of harm to the rapidly developing picture.
Our problem is to find the original subluxation which controls the
site of the original pathologic change and to correct that. In nearly
all cases where this is done, even partially, the body is enabled to
care for the remainder of the damage and to throw off the accumulated
toxins. It is not uncommon that the temperature falls two degrees in
five or ten minutes after a proper adjustment. We expect always to
abort or check a fever in twenty-four hours or less.
There are cases in which the temperature drops after adjustment
but presently rises again. This indicates the virulence of the
autointoxication or that some other area of poison production is
operating than the one our first adjustment would control. A correct
diagnosis will enable one to give specific adjustment and check
practically any fever except a chronic one with much tissue destruction
already accomplished; even some of these yield.
The commonest cause of fever is at the fifth or sixth Dorsal vertebra,
long known as Center Place, or Fever Center. Here emerge many
pre-ganglionic fibres which distribute their impulses through lower
neurons in the sympathetic system to the coeliac plexus and thence to
the blood-vessels supplying the major portion of the abdominal viscera.
Adjustment here causes a sudden contraction of these abdominal vessels
and a forcing of the blood to the surface with rapid cooling.
Often, however, this adjustment is followed by a recrudescence which
indicates that some other vertebra must be adjusted. Many fevers,
such as typhoid, pneumonia, tonsilitis, etc., yield to specific local
adjustment without any involvement of the so-called Center Place.
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