The mental disorders of this type are purely functional and may cover
a broad scope as to causes; however, from the osteopathic viewpoint a
great majority of them seem to have as their specific exciting cause,
lesions in the upper dorsal and upper cervical regions. The treatment
should be applied specifically to the cause which may range anywhere
from the 1st to the 8th dorsal, or from the 1st to the 3d cervical,
covering the nutritional and circulatory centers and thus controlling
the nutrition and circulation to the brain. There can be no question
but what the osteopathic theory of adjustment of physical defects
forms the basis of permanent cure, since many of our recoveries had
been previously under other methods of treatment without results. Our
records cover over 200 cases with recovery in more than two-thirds, and
very few recurrences up to the present.