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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    lieaviness in the head, which was immediately followed by a violent vomiting of blood, which recuri’ed thiee times during a month, after which this attack ceased. Afterwards, I was daily, two or three times, seized with a trembling all over my body, so violent that persons in the adjoining room could hear the chattering of my teeth. These fits of trembling having continued for three months, my health began gradu- ally to improve, with the exception of the headaches. The fits of trembling returned during last spring, though not so violent, and were accompanied with faintings.” The head was always hot, especially on a round spot on the top of the head; the action of the heart feeble and accele- rated ; constipated bowels and cold feet. As the patient was by nature of a strong constitution, I prescribed at once twelve movements directed to relieve the congestion of the brain, increase the tone of the bowels, and derive the blood towards the lower extremities. The efiect of the specific movements directed in this case was immediate; the bowels acted regularly from the second day of treatment, and the feet, before always damp and cold, even in the mid- dle of summer, became warm. There was no fit of headache during the whole course of treatment, which lasted six weeks. Although the patient a short time afterwards met with a severe accident, in which her chest-bone was very severely bruised, and she received a concussion of the brain, there has been no recurrence of the headache. There have been few more satisfactory instances of the excellent efiect of the bio-mecha- nical stimulus, properly directed, of Ling’s exercises. Rheumatic gout. Mr. , aged 33, was in the most distressed state, both in mind and body, when I first saw him in August, 1850. He had already suffered dui-ing two years from a painful swelling in the ankles, Avhich occasioned the most excrucia- ting pain when walking, and as he was obliged to take long daily walks, he was fearful he should be obliged to resign a situation on which his means of living depended. Anxiety
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