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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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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    NECESSITY OF APPARATUS. periment it was fully proved that more power is usually required to maintain the interior molecular and chemical motions which sustain physiological actions, than is generated in the system of another person. This conclusion will not appear incredible when we reflect that many persons, including most invalids, evolve little or no surplus force for expenditure on exterior objects, it all being employed to maintain the even, sluggish, physiological ^processes. It becomes evident, not only that apparatus must be employed, but also-that this apparatus must be capable of infinite degrees as well as various kinds of action. It should be prompt in obedience to the will of the operator as well as to the feelings of the patient. Force supplied to the living body must be in the form of Vibratory Motion. In this way waves of force are made to pervade the system, as light does a transparent body. Supplied in any other form it would affect the mass rather than the constituent elements of which the mass is composed. Were the mass moved, the relations of the component parts would remain undisturbed. This corresponds, also.