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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    Massage a Remedy for Rheumatism, In RHEUMATISM and rheumatic affections, massage- has long enjoyed a high reputation. It is efficacious in both the articular and muscular forms. In z> curious work by William Balfour, M.D., published in Edinburgh in 1816, and entitled Observations, with cases illustrative of a new and simple and expeditious mode of curing Rheumatism and Sprains without in^ the least debilitating the System, an account is given- of the treatment of rheumatism by percussion, friction,, and compression. His attention was called to the subject by a little personal experience. Having been seized with a rheumatic affection of the left shoulder, chiefly in the course of the deltoid muscle,, the pain at times, but especially towards morning when warm in bed, was so severe as to make me cry out. Desirous on one of these occasions of moving my arm, a task to which its own powers were un- equal, I grasped it firmly with my right hand about.
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