Paralysis and other affections of the nerves: their cure by transmitted energy and special movements / by Geo. H. Taylor.

  • George H. Taylor
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[1880]
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Credit: Paralysis and other affections of the nerves: their cure by transmitted energy and special movements / by Geo. H. Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    needful that the energy of motion which health dves be afforded to the chronic invalid. ABSENCE OF POWER OP MOTION—PARALYSIS. But in paralysis, and indeed, in other forms of disease of nerves, the interior nutritive mo- tions so indispensable to the generation ot power are not maintained. The ability to sus- tain the conditions for making power is absent. This fact is the principal evidence, and in the beginning may be, and probably is, the essence of the disease of central nerves. The will either may not act, or its mandates do not reach the muscles whose action is desired. The purposes of the will in tlie organism fall short of their aim. The capacity for the evolution of nerve- force by spontaneous action of nerve-centers is, as regards the function of some portion of the nervous system, partly or wholly suspended. The health of this function is not maintained, and cannot easily or often be regained through power originating within. Ordinary medical practice, recognizing the facts stated, endeavors to overcome the inertia of nerve-centers and conductors by exciting
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