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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    the middle of the pained muscle, to my surprise and high gratification I was instantly relieved from pain, and while I thus held my arm I could do anything with it I pleased without further aid from my right hand, than mere compression. This led to an investigation of the subject, and the systematic em- ployment in a number of cases of rheumatism, of compression, percussion, and friction; a rude and primitive form of massage in fact. By far the most startling case in Dr. Balfour's book is that of Madam Rey De La Ruaz, a French lady, long resident and well known in Edinburgh. She is said to have in- herited gout, and to have suffered from it from the age of six. Dr. Balfour tells us that when first he saw her all her fingers were extremely weak, some of them swelled, others so exquisitely painful that she could not suffer them to be touched, she could not lift a wine-glass with one hand, but she con- trived to do it with both by turning their backs to each other. Both wrist-joints were stiff and painful, but the left could not be moved without the greatest suffering. Both elbow-joints were greatly affected, the left did not possess half the natural range of
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