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

  • Taylor, Geo. H. (George Herbert), 1821-1896.
Date:
[1880]
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    the resistance of external and wholly discon- nected objects. The internal forces are trans- formed to external power. AVhen, now, this force is applied to a solid body, it overcomes the inertia of the body en masse. The integral portions do not change their mutual relationshi]D. But if the same force be applied to another living being, which is* constituted of soft or movable parts, it is evident that the force thus employed overcomes, not the inertia of the whole, but that of its minutest and invisible parts ; is, in fact, distributed among these primary elements and causes of animal power. But motion of the incipiently vital elements is necessary in order that they may fullill their destiny; that the becoming muscle and nerve may really become those instruments of power ; that primary organization may occur. Each and every atom thus destined is by motion urged onward in its career to the consumma- tion of its organic purpose. Without such motion, organizing elemeuts could never be brought into due place, but must remain unendowed with vital privileges. Cliemical changes, too, so necessary in the re-