The household medical adviser. A complete, popular-scientific work of reference ... compiled from the most recent recognised system of prevention and cure ... with over 320 illustrations, coloured plates and unfolding anatomical models / by H.Muller. M.D.

  • Müller, H.
Date:
1900
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Credit: The household medical adviser. A complete, popular-scientific work of reference ... compiled from the most recent recognised system of prevention and cure ... with over 320 illustrations, coloured plates and unfolding anatomical models / by H.Muller. M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    Shaking is best mecliauically effected by the Zander vibratint^ appara- tus (see plate xvi.) If the masseur's hand is employed, a tremulous quick motion of the distended fingers of the whole hand, is brought to play upon the skin of the patient, so that the continued movements of the fingers produces a continuous soft shaking of the tissues. Stri/iiiig (also performed by Zander^'s apparatus) consists, as the name implies, in the masseut's striking in regular time some part of the body either with the outer edge of the hand, or with the tips of the fingers of both hands alternately. These varioiis commonest methods of manipulation are never used singly or alone, but together and alternately. In addition to them there are many others, every masseur in time developing his own system of procedure. What is the aim, then, of all these various mechanical stimulations; or, in other words, what is the effect of massage? Is it possible, that these movements of the hands and actions of the fingers, which seem almost a sort of play, should vanquish serious disorders against which the most costly medicines are powerless ? There are many maladies which yield to no medicine, but can be certainly cured by able and sufficiently long continued massage. Massage of abdomen with a hall. What disorders are particularly fitted for treatment by massage, will be most easily understood if it is observed in what manner the various manipulations affect the body of the patient.