Theory and practice of the movement-cure, or the treatment of lateral curvature of the spine, paralysis, indigestion, constipation, consumption, angular curvatures and other deformities, diseases incident to women, derangements of the nervous system, and other chronic affections by the Swedish system of localized movements / by Charles Fayette Taylor.

  • Taylor, Charles Fayette, 1827-1899.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Theory and practice of the movement-cure, or the treatment of lateral curvature of the spine, paralysis, indigestion, constipation, consumption, angular curvatures and other deformities, diseases incident to women, derangements of the nervous system, and other chronic affections by the Swedish system of localized movements / by Charles Fayette Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Even from the partial suspension of any of the nutritive processes—as of the muscular, when an active man is obliged to suspend activity; or of the sanguineous, when a large arterial trunk is tied—there is always more or less disturbance of the system, aris- ing from deterioration of blood from this cause. Every interstitial process, whether of secretion, excretion, innervation, or new formation, may be called nutri- tion, for all of these are themselves processes of cell- growth. But the only manner by which any part or organ can be maintained in its integrity, is by the performance of that particular function for whicli it was specially created. A function itself has reference to all other organs; the performing of the function is self-reparative to the organ performing it. Those progressive and regressive * molecular changes occurring in every tissue, simultaneously with every functional act, have relation to the purity and right condition of the blood, not only by selecting from the blood those materials necessary to the proper nutrition of every tissue, thereby preparing a more perfect plasma for other tissue formations, but the blood itself is thus enabled to perfect its own organization. The blood, if not a tissue, is at least an organ, hav- ing its own progressive and regressive processes, sub- ject to all the liabilities of other organs, and whose special function it is to carry nutrition to the other tissues, and bring back, for purification or excretion, the general waste. Bat if tissue transformation take ° Lehmann.