Spondylotherapy : physio and pharmaco-therapy and diagnostic methods based on a study of clinical physiology / by Albert Abrams.

  • Albert Abrams
Date:
1918
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Credit: Spondylotherapy : physio and pharmaco-therapy and diagnostic methods based on a study of clinical physiology / by Albert Abrams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER I. GENERAL REFLEXO-DIAGNOSTS. SCOPE OE SPONDYLOTHERAPY—REFLEXO-DIAGNOSIS—FUNCTION¬ AL DIAGNOSIS—VISCERAL TONOMETRY—SPONDYLOPRESSOR— VAGO-VISCERAL METHODS—DIAGNOSIS OF INTUITIONAL ACTS—BACKACHE AND VERTEBRAL TENDERNESS—REFERRED PAIN—DIAGNOSIS OF HYSTERIA. SCOPE OF SPONDYLOTHERAPY. Mv friend, Hr. H. Jaworski, of Paris, France, first suggested the name, “reflexotherapy” (036). He further suggests ‘ ‘reflexo-spondylotherapy.” Dr. J. Madison Taylor, and Dr. Louis von Cotz- hausen, protest against the employment of the word spondylotherapy contending that the designation is too limited in scope to do justice to the subject which embraces not only new methods of treatment but new methods of diagnosis. Dr. von Cotzhausen proposes the neologism, “reflexology.” Spondylotherapy, may suggest exclusivism to the captious critic and so would electrotherapy and hyd¬ rotherapy but time has removed this stigma from the devotees of the latter methods of practice. In the preface to the third edition of spondylo¬ therapy and elsewhere in the same work (387), its purport has been fully expounded. The latter is no more suggestive of an exclusive method of practice than is electrotherapy but only emphasizes the impor¬ tance of the spinal cord as the center for the dis¬ charge of the majority of reflex actions. DY^hTm^kw.'v rTtheS^S refir t0. ihe yRPS in the last edition of SPON- DYLOT'iERAPY where the subject has already been discussed When the grestsive^spondylotherapy? nuw,,er 11 refers t0 the ™ent edition of pro-