Fat and blood : an essay on the treatment of certain forms of neurasthenia and hysteria / by S. Weir Mitchell.

  • Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914.
Date:
1885
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Credit: Fat and blood : an essay on the treatment of certain forms of neurasthenia and hysteria / by S. Weir Mitchell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    massage a large rise of temperature, and others who experience none. I give a single case of what is rare but not exceptional,—an almost constant fall of temperature. Miss ]Sr., set. 21, hysteria, good condition : Before Massage. After Massage. 98 ....... 97f 981 98i 98 98 98| 98 98f 98 These facts are, of course, extremely interest- ing ; but it is well to add that the success of the treatment is not indicated in any constant way by the thermal changes, which are neither so steady nor so remarkable as those caused by electricity. If now we ask ourselves why massage does \ good in cases of absolute rest, the answer—at least a partial answer—^is not difficult. The secretions of the skin are stimulated by the treatment of that tissue, and it is visibly flushed, as it ought to be, from time to time, by ordi- nary active exercise. Under massage the flabby muscles acquire a certain firmness, which at first lasts only for a few minutes, but which after a