Prevention and cure of consumption by the Swedish movement cure : with directions for its home application / by David Wark.

  • Wark, David.
Date:
1879
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Credit: Prevention and cure of consumption by the Swedish movement cure : with directions for its home application / by David Wark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    body foresaw that his creatures, during'their physical . existence, w6uld he exposed to many injuries and in- fluences productive of disease. He therefore endowed them with a conservative healing power, which is ever in active operation from the moment we enter on life until we draw our latest breath, continuing, more or less perfectly, the action of the vital func- tions, defending us from the influence of, and neutral- izing those morbid causes that tend to extinguish life. Without such an endowment, life itself would become a burden, and be prematurely extinguished by a con- stant accumulation of injuries. Without it, no wound would ever heal, no disease be cured. Every one has noticed improved health follow fron a change of diet or air, the abandonment of an in jurious habit, or of an unwholesome occupation. Increased health, under such circumstances, is due exclusively to the recuperative power of nature. In truth, if invalids would but remove all health-oppos- ing influences surrounding them, they would be sur- prised at the great things this healing power would accomplish for them in the restoration of health. It is admitted, on all hands, that the true province of the healing art is simply to assist nature ; but in seeking to accomplish this object, the physician, prac- ticing the popular mode of treatment, has often to be content to do some injury in order to subsequently accomplish a greater good. But the Movement-Cure practice has no such drawback ; the impressions it produces are entirely in the direction of physiological *