Technic and Practice of ChiropracticLoban, Joy Maxwell
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Technic and Practice of Chiropractic
Loban, Joy Maxwell
Chiropractic
=Pleurisy.=--Pleurisy, unless purulent or tubercular, yields well in
varying periods. Purulent and tubercular pleurisy are stubborn and may
not recover.
=Pneumonia.=--The author has had a wide and gratifying experience
with pneumonia. At every stage it seems amenable to adjustment, and
the usual effect of the first adjustment is a drop of from one to two
degrees in the temperature with immediate softening of the consolidated
area. Specific adjustments get best and quickest results. Pneumonia
should =always= recover, unless it occurs as an intercurrent event in
some chronic and wasting disease, as Bright’s Disease.
=Potts’ Disease.=--Tubercular caries of the bodies of the vertebrae
is curable, within limits. Occasional cases are seen in which Nature
has stopped the spread of the disease by walling off the morbid area
with exostosis. Such cases should not be adjusted, and the disease may
remain latent through a long life. When active the disease proves fatal
unless checked, which is possible in the earlier stages, and becomes
impossible when the vertebral bodies are too fragile to stand strong
adjustments. Discernment in case-taking will avoid any fatalities under
adjustment, but by no means all cases of Potts’ Disease are curable.
=Pregnancy.=--We may correct by adjustment any pathological conditions
arising during pregnancy which would be amenable to adjustment under
other conditions. A course of adjustments during a normal pregnancy
will render delivery easier and lessen, but not abolish, the pains.
Great care must be exercised in the manner of adjustment.
=Prostatic Enlargement.=--Varies according to age and recuperative
power. Prognosis is bad in the very aged and infirm, but in more
vigorous subjects quite good for steady reduction of the hypertrophied
gland, with subsidence of attendant symptoms. Venereal history is
unfavorable.
=Pulmonary Tuberculosis.=--In the early stages, where little damage
has been done to lung tissue, recovery is rapid and quite certain. In
fully developed cases, with characteristic symptoms and marked damage
to tissue, prognosis is very grave, and it is usually wisest to advise
a trip to the Southwest in preference to adjustments. Tubercular cases
should be studied with a view to estimating the exact condition and
recuperative power of the patient before taking.
=Rachitis.=--Prognosis excellent. In a period varying from six months
in the best to five to seven years in the slowest cases, all show
complete or nearly complete cures. All deformity may be checked in
a short time and proper bone nourishment established. Correction of
deformities existing prior to adjustment is a growth process. Too
many cases become discouraged at the slowness of the work and stop
adjustments.
=Retinal Hemorrhage.=--Prognosis fair. Undoubted cures have been
recorded, as well as a few failures. At least one case of hemorrhages
followed by partially detached retina has been cured, or nearly so, by
adjustments.
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