Nerve-vibration and excitation as agents in the treatment of functional disorder and organic disease.

  • Granville, J. Mortimer (Joseph Mortimer), 1833-1900.
Date:
1883
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    5. I can subdue the exaggerated reflex irritability of revolting subordinate centres, and replace them under control of the higher centres, even in cases of lateral sclerosis. Applying these facts—for such they undoubtedly are—to the needs of special nervous states, the prac- titioner will have no difficulty in perceiving that my method has great and obvious uses. I am anxious not to overstate the results I am obtaining, but they are such as to show that the physiological process of me- chanical vibration is likely to prove a potent agent in the treatment of a wide range of maladies now most intractable. It will afford me much pleasure to show the process to any medical man who will call on me. It is impossible at present to describe its details in writing ; but I will gladly aid any one in its application. My method has nothing in common with the ''muscle- beating'' and shaking recently introduced into this country; although my treatment was first tested in Paris. It is a system which must be approved and practised by the profession exclusively. Nothing do I so much dread as its falling into unprofessional hands. I have been engaged upon it since 1862, shortly after which date some of the first results were communicated to the Obstetrical Society- of London.'' In June last I had a paper in The Lancet (10th) giving the results of extended observations :— Nerve-Vibration as a Therapeutic Agext. Enlarged experience in nerve vibration as a means or method of treating disease has confirmed my belief