Technic and Practice of ChiropracticLoban, Joy Maxwell
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Technic and Practice of Chiropractic
Loban, Joy Maxwell
Chiropractic
=Insanity.=--No accurate tabulation of results in different forms of
insanity has been made. Numerous successes, interspersed with fewer
failures, have been reported. The author has both succeeded and failed
with acute dementia, but the failure was a twenty-four-hour trial only,
and included but three adjustments.
=Intestinal Obstruction.=--The prognosis of intestinal obstruction from
intussusception or strangulated hernia is, under Chiropractic, bad.
Such cases are almost surely fatal unless operated. Faecal obstructions
or masses of worms, also volvulus, respond quickly and prognosis is
good. Careful diagnosis is required before taking a case of apparent
complete obstruction.
=Irritable Heart.=--If purely nervous, recovery is quick and easy. If
there is a drug diathesis or organic disease, slow and doubtful.
=Jaundice.=--Yields readily, but if of the obstructive form the
obstruction must first be reduced or removed by adjustments.
=Laryngitis.=--A few adjustments suffice for simple acute cases.
Specific laryngeal infections are more difficult. Laryngitis with
ulceration, which is either syphilitic or tubercular, may not recover
or may recover after a protracted struggle. Chronic laryngitis of other
forms is curable, but requires more time than acute.
=Leucorrhoea.=--Fair prognosis only.
=Lumbago.=--Good, unless pain prevents proper adjustment. True lumbago
is quick to respond.
=Malaria.=--Tenacity varies according to climatic conditions. Malarial
cachexia always yields slowly, sometimes defies adjustment altogether.
No reports are to be had on pernicious malaria. Other forms recover
though paroxysms tend to recur several times before checked, but of
shorter duration than if no adjustment is given.
=Mastoiditis.=--Good results in the few cases observed.
=Measles.=--Excellent. Recovers quickly. Eruption hastened by early
adjustment, runs very mild course with little or no fever, catarrhal
symptoms disappear early. No sequelae.
=Meniere’s Disease.=--Labyrinthine disease of this character has been
cured, without reported failures, but data is meagre, not more than
three or four cases having come under the author’s notice.
=Menorrhagia--Metrorrhagia=.--Results excellent, and usually quick. One
fifty-two-hour intermenstrual hemorrhage from uterus was stopped in one
hour by adjustment, with no recurrence.
=Migraine.=--Migraine, or hemicrania, gives a fair prognosis only. Most
cases require a long course of adjustments.
=Movable Kidney.=--Prognosis good, but change of position and complete
fixation slow. No treatment required--merely adjustment.
=Myelitis.=--Transverse myelitis, if adjusted in the acute stage, may
be checked as any other inflammation, and the damage and resulting
paralysis will be greatly lessened or altogether prevented. The
paralyses which follow myelitis require time for the rebuilding of the
degenerated axons whose course is interrupted at the diseased area, but
tend to recover.
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