Therapeutic manipulation, or, Medicina mechanica : a successful treatment of various disorders of the human body, by mechanical application / by I.G.I. de Betou.

  • Betou, I. G. I. de.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Therapeutic manipulation, or, Medicina mechanica : a successful treatment of various disorders of the human body, by mechanical application / by I.G.I. de Betou. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    two departments ; the first was for healthy persons, in order there to deyelope and strengthen, after cer- tain determined laws of motion, their frames and constitutions. Regular teachers were here prepared and examined, in order afterwards to he distributed in the schools of the country, there to watch over the physical education and training of the young. For the results I proudly refer to those who have seen the adolescentes of the Swedish schools, particularly those of the Royal Academy of Cadets, the students of Upsala, Lund, &c. The second department was the medical, where motions were applied for those diseases which are fully curable by this method; this medical department has its separate school with its own anatomical hall, and the professors are paid by Government. I do not intend to speak of the great use of the first or the hygienic department in preventing dis- eases, by the right and harmonious development of a weak frame, because my time and space allow me here only to treat of the application and effects of the Therapeutic manipulation. Therapeutic Manipulation, (Medicina Mechanica) is a system of motions and mechanical applications, peculiarly adapted to the various parts of the human body. That great effects in our body may be pro- duced by motion, every one knows who has suffered from the hateful complaint called sea-sickness, which is produced solely by the motion of the ship ; and most well-informed persons are aware, that tickling the feet may bring on convulsions, but a slap on the
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