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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    having pain in the back and head ; but the overshadowing manifesta- tion of ill-health was in the function alluded to. We may safely assume that local congestion was the most probable cause of of the nervous irritability and other attendant effects in this case. The success of treatment in cases of this sort, evidently de- pends on the same principles as have been previously insisted on, namely, their power to effect the equal distribution of the blood— conveying it from certain suffering portions of the body to other por- tions, where there is evidently a deficiency. Cold hands and feet, and an inactive skin are always conspicuous concomitants of the form of disease which we are now considering; and in no case can this ♦bject—the removal of congestion—be more easily and certainly accom- plished than in this. The continued existence of local congestion of the parts now considered, must result in those very common, but very difficult forms of disease to cure, hyper trophy, induraction, ulceration, &c, which have become the opprobium of the medical art. The ordinary medical plan in these qJ cases, is that of local depletion—effected in one way or another. The principle is manifestly wrong; for if the fullness be reduced without strengthening the vital power of the part, it only causes a further determination of the blood to the already overburthened organs, thus continuing instead of curing the disease. The effect of the movements is exactly the reverse of this; hence their success. They not only convey the blood away from the region suffering, but at the same time Fi&- n-— Trun* forward , BENDING, and ABDOMEN PRESSING afford it the necessary tone. In the pre- —active and passive—strength- sent case, at the end of a month from be- enig f ° muscles of tho 1(mer part of the trunk, and removing ginning treatment, there was evidence internal congestion.