Osteopathy Complete . pressure on the spinalcord, thus partially cutting off communication between thelimbs and the brain. Her old family doctor insisted that thechild had worms, and treated her for the same for fourweeks, when the little sufferer had entirely lost the use ofher lower extremities; he turned her over to us with theremark that he did not understand the case. After fourtreatments as laid down in this work, the child could walk,and in three weeks was romping with her playmates. We will refer also to the case of a young lady of Galena,Kansas, suffering from creeping paralysis, or l
Osteopathy Complete . pressure on the spinalcord, thus partially cutting off communication between thelimbs and the brain. Her old family doctor insisted that thechild had worms, and treated her for the same for fourweeks, when the little sufferer had entirely lost the use ofher lower extremities; he turned her over to us with theremark that he did not understand the case. After fourtreatments as laid down in this work, the child could walk,and in three weeks was romping with her playmates. We will refer also to the case of a young lady of Galena,Kansas, suffering from creeping paralysis, or locomotorataxia. This dread malady is caused by a diseased conditionof the posterior column of the spinal cord, and our treatment,stretching and rotating the spine thoroughly, frees the cordand starts the circulation. The young lady in question wasnot only perfectly helpless, but her digestive organs andkidnevs failed In connection with our usual Paraly-sis Treatment, we gave the Kidney and Constipation Treat-. Cut 36.—Freeing the Circulation DISEASES OF THE XERVOL^ ST STEM. 333 ment. In a short time the lady could walk with assistance,and in two months was on the high road to perfect health. ATROPHY (SHRINKING OF MUSCLES). Atrophy of any part might well be mentioned at thistime, it being a form of paralysis. It will be rememberedthat we mentioned the fact of the nerves controlling thecaliber of the arteries, thus regulating the blood-supply. Inatrophy we are confronted with a condition in which thenerves controlling the arteries which feed the witheredparts are interfered with. The wires are down and the cryof hunger from the starving muscles never reaches thebrain. But even assuming that the brain is apprised of thefact that certain muscles are starving, that they need moreblood, its message to the arteries to expand never reaches itsdestination. If it is the muscles of the leg that are starving,why not flex the leg upon the abdomen (see cut 3G), rotatingit inward a
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