Technic and Practice of ChiropracticLoban, Joy Maxwell
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Technic and Practice of Chiropractic
Loban, Joy Maxwell
Chiropractic
=Hay Fever.=--Perhaps one-half of all adjusted cases recover fully,
some at once and some after several months. By recovery is meant
failure of the annual appearance of the attack with no symptoms at
any time. No case can be pronounced cured in less than a year. The
remaining half are modified little or not at all.
=Headache.=--Nervous, bilious, ocular, and reflex headaches yield
well. Toxic headaches, or those accompanying systemic infections, give
way slowly with the cleansing of the system.
=Hemorrhoids.=--Excellent, except when lower lumbars are anterior and
defy adjustment.
=Hernia.=--In all sites and forms of hernia, excepting strangulated
hernia, prognosis is good. Strangulation requires immediate surgical
interference. Prognosis is better if a truss be used.
=Hodgkins’ Disease.=--Prognosis theoretically good, but the few cases
under adjustment, while benefited, seem to have died of intercurrent
disease, so that it is well to suspend judgment.
=Hydrocele.=--Theoretically hydrocele should respond well, but in
practice the author has seen several failures, and no cures.
=Hydrocephalus.=--If due to cervical twisting at birth, the prognosis
is fair; otherwise bad.
=Hypertrophy.=--Adaptative hypertrophies, those due to overstrain upon
an organ, do not and should not disappear until the strain has been
relieved. Hypertrophy is sometimes accelerated by adjustment, as in the
case of defective heart valves, when thickening of the wall restores
and maintains compensation. Other hypertrophies tend to disappear under
adjustment.
=Hysteria.=--Good, but slow. Some extreme cases refuse to respond.
Instant recovery from hysterical coma is the rule following adjustment,
but the coma tends to recur.
=Immunity.=--There is no doubt that adjustments often confer immunity
from infection and contagion, but it is so difficult to strengthen
every part of the body against every possible infection or contagion,
and so uncertain that immunity really exists in a given case, that
it is best always to assume the possibility of contagion and act
accordingly. Adjustments following exposure to known contagion are
always wise, but one may never know, if they succeed, that the patient
might not have escaped without them.
=Impotence.=--Variable outlook, according to secondary causes and
pathology. Previous venereal disease renders the prognosis most
doubtful. Nervous or vascular impotence is likely to respond well.
If due to cord disease, the prognosis is to be made on the original
disease.
=Influenza.=--Mortality not more than 2 per cent, and that in the
very aged and infirm. Duration varies greatly. May yield at once,
first adjustment being followed by disappearance of fever, profuse
perspiration, and completed convalescence in from twenty-four to
forty-eight hours; or may require several adjustments at frequent
intervals to break fever.
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