Technic and Practice of ChiropracticLoban, Joy Maxwell
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Technic and Practice of Chiropractic
Loban, Joy Maxwell
Chiropractic
=Myocarditis.=--Reports conflict. It is well to consider this a grave
condition and one open to investigation.
=Myxoedema.=--Only one case known to have been under adjustment, and
this after several years was markedly improved, but not yet quite cured.
=Nephritis.=--Prognosis good. Acute cases show rapid, chronic cases
slow, improvement.
=Neuralgia.=--Prognosis excellent in any form. Trophic neuralgias,
such as herpes zoster, are slowest as a rule, but occasional cases of
tic doloureux will require several months. One may always expect a
cure unless the patient, in long cases, becomes discouraged and stops
adjustments.
=Neurasthenia.=--Good, but will be slow unless mental aid be given in
the form of freedom from worry or strain.
=Neuritis.=--Good, but very uncertain as to time; some cases show quick
disappearance of all pain and some drag interminably.
=Optic Atrophy.=--Complete atrophy with total blindness is rarely
cured, though occasional partial or complete cures have been reported.
Partial atrophy may slowly recover, or recovery may cease at some point
short of completion and case remain stationary thereafter.
=Ovaritis.=--Good, except in suppurative forms. When adhesions have
been formed, results are doubtful.
=Pancreatitis.=--Obscure, hard to recognize, and hard to cure.
Prognosis probably bad.
=Paralysis Agitans.=--Probably in the earliest stages this is curable.
Cure of a fully developed case is exceedingly doubtful and the writer
has yet to see marked benefit in such a case.
=Paralyses.=--Prognosis decidedly variable. Apoplectic hemorrhage
recovers in about 50 per cent of all cases. Paralyses from central
lesions require much more time than peripheral palsies because of the
necessity for rebuilding degenerated nerve cells as well as fibres. The
paralyses following anterior poliomyelitis are almost certain to be
cured if sufficient time is allowed. Most peripheral palsies, except in
the very aged, are curable. Any other paralysis but a purely functional
one recovers slowly, but this form may yield almost in a day.
=Parotitis.=--Mumps respond immediately and may be checked at any stage.
=Pericarditis.=--Usually recovers. Effusions are stubborn and may
become purulent, in which case the prognosis is grave.
=Peritonitis.=--Prognosis grave, but some cases have been reported
as cured under adjustment. These are probably localized rather than
diffuse inflammations, usually pelvic.
=Pertussis, or Whooping-Cough.=--Tends to run its course despite
adjustments, though some aborted cases are reported. All cases mild
under adjustment, with small liability of complications. A nervous
cough is likely to persist for months after the infection has passed.
Adjustments seem seldom to prevent contagion.
=Pharyngitis.=--Acute form yields readily. Chronic pharyngitis is more
stubborn, but usually curable.
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