Part 56

=Gonorrhoeal Rheumatism.=--More stubborn than other forms of rheumatism and sometimes defies adjustment. No percentages are available. It is probable that nothing but a general cleansing of the system will prevent recurrence.

=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.

=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.