Massage as a mode of treatment / by William Murrell.

  • William Murrell
Date:
1886
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Credit: Massage as a mode of treatment / by William Murrell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    employed chiefly in the treatment of affections of the joints. The term is a bad one for it has nothing to do with what we ordinarily understand by friction. It is always associated with effleurage, and it must be per- formed quickly and with considerable facility or it is well nigh useless. It is useful not only for treatment but for the purposes of diagnosis. Tapotement is a kind of percussion which may be made with the tips of the fingers, their palmar aspects {les iapotements de Laism) the palms of the hand, the back of the half closed hand, the ulnar or radial border of the hand [hachures, hacktingen of Neumann) or with the hand flexed so as to contain when brought in contact with the surface of the body a cushion of air. In ex- ceptional circumstances tapotement may be indirect, a bundle of swan's feathers lightly, tied together being employed for this purpose, but this is now rarely re- sorted to by the best operators. There are other varieties of massage such for exam- ple as different forms of vibration—very useful for con- stipation—but these it is hardly necessary to describe in detail, in fact, it is almost impossible to teach the art of massage by written or verbal description. It is very
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