How to restore the walking powers, and muscular movement generally, or a treatise on the relief & cure of spinal curvatures, injuries of joints, sprains, deformities, rheumatism, and paralysis / by F. Graham Bennett.

  • Bennett, Francis Graham.
Date:
1874
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: How to restore the walking powers, and muscular movement generally, or a treatise on the relief & cure of spinal curvatures, injuries of joints, sprains, deformities, rheumatism, and paralysis / by F. Graham Bennett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    tracted mental exertion, or even any very excessive emotion of the mind may irritate it, and if the. strain be continued long enough cause actual disease. Again, a weak spine, a lateral or posterior curvature of the spine, a continual stooping posture, the constant shakings attendant on much railway travelling, riding in carriages, etc., will in persons pre-disposed to it bring on irritation of the nervous system and consequent paralysis. Paralysis from irritation of the nervous system occurs much more frequently than paralysis from actual disease; but whether the patient suffers from irritation or actual disease of the nervous system, the results are exactly the same, with this exception, that the paralysis is not so easily cured when actual disease occurs. The treatment of paralysis, of course, depends on its cause. Irritation must be removed by giving the patient rest of mind and body during the exciting stages of the disease, and as long as any inflammatory action exists, the various secretions of the body must be attended to, and Nature must have every