Technic and Practice of ChiropracticLoban, Joy Maxwell
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Technic and Practice of Chiropractic
Loban, Joy Maxwell
Chiropractic
=Coryza.=--Some cases respond instantly, others persist and run their
usual course. Chronic nasal catarrh recovers in favorable climates,
and in unfavorable tends to become permanent, though less severe and
annoying under adjustment.
=Croup.=--Always dangerous, but no fatalities reported under
adjustments, which are powerfully effective. Croup requires constant
attention until all symptoms subside, usually within an hour or two.
=Cystitis.=--Usually curable, but some chronic cases prove intractable
for an unknown reason. There is no way of recognizing the curability of
a case before the attempt.
=Deafness.=--Variable outlook. Deafness due to catarrhal occlusion of
the Eustachian tubes is usually curable. That due to middle ear disease
sometimes yields. That due to nerve disease is possibly--though not
certainly--incurable.
=Diabetes Insipidus.=--Prognosis excellent. Few cases fail of cure, and
no fatalities are reported.
=Diabetes Mellitus.=--Always necessitating grave and careful
consideration, this metabolic disease is marvellously controlled by
Chiropractic adjustment. Probably 90 per cent of all cases are curable,
and only those presenting impossible problems of adjustment, or those
in the very last stages, are hopeless.
=Diarrhoea.=--Prognosis depends largely upon secondary causes.
Adjustments sometimes produce diarrhoea to cleanse the intestinal tract
of waste or poisons. Such a diarrhoea, if instituted by Nature without
aid, does not cease with adjustments until its purpose is accomplished.
Nervous and infective diarrhoeas usually respond well.
=Dilatation of Heart.=--Compensatory hypertrophy and strengthening of
the muscle usually follows adjustment.
=Diphtheria.=--Under adjustment the false membrane tends to exfoliate
and to be coughed out entire within a few hours, with rapid recovery.
In children, watch for possible strangulation from loosened membrane.
Constant bedside attention is imperative until fever and membrane
have disappeared. Convalescence, unless antitoxin has been used, is
very rapid, and physicians watching the clinical course of diphtheria
under adjustment customarily doubt the diagnosis unless culture is
made. Antitoxin modifies the prognosis toward gravity, and in spite of
adjustments persistent sequelae often follow its use.
=Dropsy.=--Cardiac or renal dropsy disappears with improvement in the
diseased organ.
=Dysentery.=--In temperate climates death is extremely unlikely.
Recovery is often quick and easy, but some cases persist. The tropical
amoebic dysentery seems hardest to master and may not improve at all.
=Dyspepsia.=--Prognosis good.
=Endocarditis.=--If primary, recovery is the rule. Occurring in the
course of some other disease, as rheumatic fever, it renders the
prognosis less certain and may terminate fatally. Likely to leave
chronic valve weakness or contraction.
=Enteritis.=--Prognosis generally fair. No figures available.
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