The anatriptic art : a history of the art termed anatripsis by Hippocrates, tripsis by Galen, frictio by Celsus, manipulation by Beveridge, and medical rubbing in ordinary language, from the earliest times to the present day : followed by an account of its virtues in the cure of disease and maintenance of health, with illustrative cases / by Walter Johnson.

  • Johnson, Walter.
Date:
1866
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Credit: The anatriptic art : a history of the art termed anatripsis by Hippocrates, tripsis by Galen, frictio by Celsus, manipulation by Beveridge, and medical rubbing in ordinary language, from the earliest times to the present day : followed by an account of its virtues in the cure of disease and maintenance of health, with illustrative cases / by Walter Johnson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    part like a bird shifting its place on a perch. He brings his whole weight on you with a jerk; follows the line of muscle with an anatomical thumb (percurrit agili corpus arte tractatrix manumque doctam spargit omnibus membris, Mart, iii., 82), draws the open hand strongly over the surface, particularly round the shoulder, turning you half up in so doing; stands with his feet on the thighs and on the chest, and slips down the ribs; then up again three times; and lastly doubling your arms, one after the other, on the chest, pushes with both hands down, beginning at the elbow; and then putting an arm under the back, and applying his chest to your crossed elbows, rolls on you across till you crack. You are now turned on your face; and in addition to the operation above described, he works his elbow round the edges of your shoulder-blades, and with the heel, hard, the angle of the neck. He concludes by hauling the body half up by each arm successively, while he stands with one foot on the opposite thigh. You are then raised for a moment to a sitting posture, and a contortion given to the small of the back with the knee, and a jerk to the neck by the two hands holding the temples.—The Turkish Bath, pp. 22, 23. The mode of rubbing pursued so successfully at Oxford, under the care of Mr. Grrosvenor, in affections of the limbs, has been described by Mr. Oleobury in the following words: The female rubber (for Mr. Grrosvenor always employed females) seated on a low stool, and taking the patient's limb in her lap (which position gave her command over it) so as to enable her to rub with both hands, proceeded to rub with extended hands; so that the friction should be performed prin- cipally with the palm of the hand, taking long strokes;