Mechanical exercise as a means of cure : being a description of The Zander Institute, London (7 Soho Square), its history, appliances, scope, and object / edited by the Medical Officer to the Institution.

Date:
1883
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    accordance with the requirements of the muscles which are vmder treatment. The object of the apparatus is to supersede the old Swedish ' massage ' for invalids, and in this respect it carries out its purpose in the most complete manner, for while under the old system (massage) the resistance offered and the con- sequent increase of sti-ength in the muscle treated never could be accurately controlled, these apparatuses give an exact record of the increase of strength in the muscle iu question. Dr. Djakoffsky, who has lived several years in Stockholm and is personally acquainted with Dr. Zander, established a similar Institution here a year ago, and had a special opportunity of showing the great value of tliis system by his treatment of many of the officers wounded last year. Some of the most celebrated surgeons who have sent their patients to the Institution for treatment of similar complaints have been persuaded of its most favourable results. The matter has secured so much notice that three similar Institutions have already been opened in Finland, in Helsing- fors (to which the State gives an annual contribution of 6,000 Tnarhs), and in Abo and Wiborg. LONDON : rniKTBD BY BPOTTIBWOODB AKD CO., NBW-STUEBT SQUABS ASD PARLIAMENT STRBBT