The movement cure in every chronic disease : a summary of its principles, processes, and results / by Geo. H. Taylor.

  • Taylor, Geo. H. (George Herbert), 1821-1896.
Date:
1861
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    The reader will perceive that the symptoms connected with dyspepsia, > are more or less associated with diseases bearing other names. This indicates a similarity of origin, and that similar means are required for effective remov- al. There being a fault in nutrition and assimilation in all, shows that those hygienic conditions which best control these, are required in all. In every case, the kind and quality of the applications are dexterously adapted to the strength as well as the disease of the patient, and are changed as these change. This being understood, we may be allowed to omit, without much detriment to the Fig. 3.-Arm Backward Prebs- reader's understanding, the something ing—active—Turning out the ribs; of general detail, which has been entered strengthening and expanding each side of tho chest in succession. upon in the present instance. CONSTIPATION. Case II.—Mr. S.., a retired merchant, over fifty years old, had been troubled with severe constipation for over a dozen years. During the first portion of this period, he was in the habitual use of aperient drugs, but the symptoms rather increasing, he became convinced not only of their uselessness but their prejudicial effects, and resorted to enemas as a substitute. To this means of daily relief he was a constant slave, for scarcely once a year did his bowels act effectually, except under compulsion. Later, other symptoms appeared, more threatening in their aspect, especially a troublesome pain and feeling of weight in the region of the heart, and he became seriously appre- hensive of the consequences. All this induced a desponding state of mind, conflicting strongly with the success of the efforts toward resto- ration. He became sallow, shrunken, flabby in muscle, nervous and very weak, especially about the loins and lower portion of the body.