Massage and allied methods of treatment : an abstract of lectures delivered to trained nurses and masseuses at the School of Electricity and Massage in connection with the West-End Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System, Paralysis, and Epilepsy 73 Welbeck Street, London, W. / by Herbert Tibbits.

Date:
1888
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Credit: Massage and allied methods of treatment : an abstract of lectures delivered to trained nurses and masseuses at the School of Electricity and Massage in connection with the West-End Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System, Paralysis, and Epilepsy 73 Welbeck Street, London, W. / by Herbert Tibbits. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    CONTENTS. prefatory note. Preliminary Remarks. Importance of the Local Treatment of Disease bt Massage and other Methods, as distinguished from the Exhibition of Drugs. (a) Its Principles as laid down by Weir Mitcliell. (b) „ „ other Authors. (c) The Dose. (d) Terms generally used to describe its Different Processes. (c) T/ie German /System of Massage. if) Description of a complete Massage of the Body, (g) Different forms of Massage Baths. Medical Gymnastics. The S\yedisii Movement Cure (Ling's System of Gymnastics). Nerve Vibration. Turkish, Russian, and other Baths. Inhalation. Electrization. Physiology of Massage. Massage and Electrization. Recapitulation. General Nervous Diseases. (a) Importance of immediate and adequate Treatment, {b) Some considerations as to the Nervous /System. 1. The Brain. 2. The Vital Principle. Neurasthenia or Nerve Exhaustion.