Medical gymnastics, or, The movement cure : a short treatise on this science, as practised at the Royal Institutions at Stockholm, Berlin, & other capitals of Europe / by Carl Ehrenhoff.
- Ehrenhoff, Carl.
- Date:
- 1861
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Medical gymnastics, or, The movement cure : a short treatise on this science, as practised at the Royal Institutions at Stockholm, Berlin, & other capitals of Europe / by Carl Ehrenhoff. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![organic textures in a state of relaxation, local pres- sure* be applied, the effect first observed is a stagna- tion of blood in the larger and smaller veins, as also in the lymphatic vessels and absorbents. The walls of the vessels being at the same time distended, con- tract more forcibly on the removal of the pressure,-]- the effect of which is a rapid propulsion of their contents and the promotion of venous absorption— thus advancing the retro-metamorphosis (waste), or shortens the periodical cycles of duration of the nucleated cells, constituting the textures. From this circumstance passive movements generally de- rived their name of Besorhing movements. The third effect produced by passive movements is the promotion of nerve-innervation. From our experience we learn that the functional activity of organic textures is improved by pressure applied to a nerve-trunk or plexus. So, for example, is often weakness of the bladder cured by the apphcation of pressure on the sacral plexus, above the pubic bone ; as also lameness of the lower extremities by pressure on the ischiadic nerve, between trochanter-major and tuber ischii. We have seen neuralgia greatly relieved by pressure upon nerve branches, applied with friction along the same. As a remarkable case of this we will refer to a case of an elderly lady who had been a * Because a more general pressure, instead of inducing stagnation of the blood in the veins, gives support to their feeble parieties, and increases the activity of the arterial capillaries, as we have seen. t If the pressure be kept up for an inconsiderate length 'of time, a permanent distension of the veins is brought about, aud fear may be appre- hended of inducing the state called varicose veins.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20392679_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
