Ling's educational and curative exercises / by M.J. Chapman.

  • Matthew James Chapman
Date:
1859
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Credit: Ling's educational and curative exercises / by M.J. Chapman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dyspepsia and general debility. Mr. T., aged 41, of lymphatic temperament, had hcen a sufferer for the last twenty years from dyspepsia, which, when he consulted me, Jan. 1848, had reached a fearful intensity. The patient being utterly reduced in flesh and strength, suffered from constant nausea, and was not able to retain either fluids or solids on the stomach; his bowels never acted without aperients, and he suffered continually from griping pains. From his childhood he was subject to cold feet and headache, and now after meals the headache became insupportable, accompanied with flatulence and eructations. The pupils of the eyes were contracted. After some days’ application of the treatment the bowels began to act, the feet became warmer, and the head was considerably improved within the flrst month. The patient, thus convinced of the influence of the specific movements, was induced to continue them, and in four months he was cured of this malady which after twenty years’ duration had brought him to the brink of the grave. With the exception of derivative and roborative movements, the treatment tended in the beginning to soothe the irritated state of the mucous membrane of the stomach and duodenum. Amongst the movements which proved of the greatest influence, one of the chief was a vibratory one directed towards the stomach itself, (left infracostal-vibration) and a friction in the direction of the colon, the body being placed in a half-lying position and the lower extremities approached towards the pelvis; these two absorptive move- ments gradually lowered the irritability of the mucous lining and regulated the contraction of the muscular coat through- out the intestinal canal. Eruption of the shin and palpitation of the heart. Baron de E-., of Germany, aged 29, sanguine temperament, had for several years had a disease of the skin, for Avhich he had consulted the most celebrated physicians on the continent without result, and had been subjected to the most various modes of treatment.
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