The prevention and cure of many chronic diseases by movements : an exposition of the principles and practice by these movements for the correction of the tendencies to disease in infancy, childhood and youth, and for the cure of many morbid affections of adults / by M. Roth.

  • Roth, Mathias, 1839-1891.
Date:
1851
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    the circulation in the organs of the cavity of the chest, and very often relieves the pains. We quote from Rothstein the following as a practical instance. Case. A patient, fifty years old, suffered since his twentieth year from shortness of breath; the disease in- creased yearly, and became at last most distressing em- physema ; the periodical attacks since the thirtieth year were produced partly by external, and partly by other causes, and the patient was, for a longer or shorter. time, in the most terrible state. All the symptoms of this disease appeared in a very violent form, as painfril inspiration, a feeling of suffocation (rale sibilant), gasping, painful pressure, and throbbing in the head and neck, singing in the ears, etc. j the patient also had a burning pain in the pit of the stomach, sometimes pain between the shoulders ; the paroxysms lasted from the evening to the middle of the following day, and were most violent during the night. The patient himself describes his pains as follows : The tortures which I suffered, and which became worse from year to year, cannot be described: during the paroxysms I was in a sort of frenzy; I would tear all in my way, and it was the greatest effort to me, when sub- jected to such severe torture, that I did not destroy life by violent means. I often, during the night, jumped to the window, in order to throw myself out, and to free my oppressed chest. This patient, after having consulted for a number of years several physicians, and having been treated without any success, resolved finally to take his last resource in the treatment by movements. The prescription was— 1. Frictions of the loins from the spine forwards, com- bined with vibration, while the patient is in a reclined sitting position. 2. Passive rotation of the feet. 3. Active-passive flexion and extension of the feet. 4. Passive rotation of the thicfh.