The movement cure / by Professor Georgii.

  • Georgii, Augustus.
Date:
1852
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Credit: The movement cure / by Professor Georgii. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    varicose veins on the outside of the left leg, from the external ankle. Eight years ago, one of these veins had burst. Occasionally he had pain and stiffness in the knees, and he dragged his legs after him. Tlier abdominal and thoracic viscera appeared to be healthy in their functions, though of slow and weak action; occasionally, however, he complained of sick headache. After a three weeks’ course of the selected movements, he began to walk a little easier, the result of absorptive movements applied to the lower extremities, and of a linear friction applied along the course of the sciatic nerve, in order to equalize the innervation. The other movements tended principally to improve the tone of the lungs, in order to increase the arterialization of the blood. The treatment was changed after six weeks, and more active and strengthening movements were introduced. The swelling of the left ankle, which most obstinately resisted the treatment, gradully subsided, under the use of the tourniquet above the ankle, for four minutes at a time; and a percussion applied to the sole of the foot removed the tenderness. The treatment ceased in January, the patient being perfectly well and having gained seven pounds in weight; his chest, which measured at the beginning of the treatment thirty-three and a half inches, was found to be thirty-seven and a quarter, having thus increased three and three-quarter inches in circumference. Having obtained better health and spirits than he had previously for many years, he has since married, and continues up to the present time perfectly well. Case XI. While in Paris I was consulted in January, 1848, by Mr. T-, aged 41, an English gentleman residing there, of lymphatic temperament, who had been a sufferer for twenty years from dyspepsia, which at that time had reached a fearful intensity. Peing utterly reduced in flesh and strength, he suffered from constant nausea, and was not able to retain either fluids or solids on his stomach; his bowels never acted without aperients, and he suffered continually from griping pains. Erom his childhood he had been subject to cold feet and headache, and after meals the headache was insupportable, accompanied with flatulence and eructations. The pupils of his eyes were much contracted. After some days of the treatment the bowels began to act; the feet became warmer, and the head was considerably improved; and in four months he was cured of this malady, which, after so many years’ duration, had brought him to the brink of the grave. With the exception of derivative and strengthening movements, the treat¬ ment was directed to soothe the irritated state of the mucous membrane of the stomach and duodenum. Among the movements