Hand-book of the movement cure : a description of the positions, movements, and manipulations, used for preventive and curative purposes, according to the system of Ling & the works of Rothstein, Neumann, & others / by Mathias Roth.

  • Roth, Mathias, 1839-1891.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Hand-book of the movement cure : a description of the positions, movements, and manipulations, used for preventive and curative purposes, according to the system of Ling & the works of Rothstein, Neumann, & others / by Mathias Roth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Emory University.

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    PKEFACE. The results which can be attained by a scientific application of Movements are a sufficient excuse for the publication of this Hand-book—the first English one on the subject. The title-page indicates the principal sources from which, in addi- tion to my own practice, the materials have been taken; but, to render the book more complete, I have also availed myself of all the reports, pamphlets, and works published on the same subject, since the appearance of my Prevention and Cure of Chronic Diseases by Movements.* * With the exception of a mode of treating diseases, called by the Chinese Cong-fu, nothing is to be found resembling in the least the Movement Cure. The Cong-fu is a treatment of diseases by various ways of breathing, in previously determined positions. Those interested may find some details in the Memoire concernant des Chinois, par les Missionaires de Peking (Paris, 1779), in the chapter, Notice du Cong-fu des Bonzes Tao-se; an extract from which I have published in the German Athenaeum for Rational Gymnastics.