Cure of consumption by manual treatment.

Date:
[1894?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Cure of consumption by manual treatment. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hesitation, he at once undertook this hopeless case. Under his treatment an immediate improvement began ; the temperature, which had been before over 103° Fahrenheit, sank gradually, and after three months it never exceeded 990. When Kellgren in the end of June left London for his usual sojourn in Sweden, her strength had already increased so much that she could go daily up and down two flights of stairs, and take half-an-hour’s walk when fine. Her treatment was then taken over by Mr. George Kittel, Kellgren’s first assistant, and she improved so much that when Kellgren returned in November, she was able to go for her treatment to the Institute, three miles off. She had totally recovered her strength ; the digestion was well regulated ; the voice had greatly improved—some months later she sang fully two octaves—and the cough had nearly left her. Since then she has, without any injury to her health, attended the Institute in most weathers. Dr. Foster was in London just before Christmas, and saw Mrs. G. He afterwards expressed to Dr. Weber, who had