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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    which it has been resorted to with marked success. The result is not only certain but prompt, the patient usually enjoying a good nights' rest after the first stance. It has the great advantage over all narcotics that there are no disagreeable after effects. There are many general or constitutional diseases in which massage is useful. It would at first sight perhaps hardly be supposed that massage would do much good in anemia, and yet in obstinate cases it is a most valuable accessory. Persistent anaemia is •often met with in women who take little exercise and remain indoors the greater part of the winter. Iron up to a certain point does good, but after a time it is jiot assimilated, and fails to do any good, and the patient no longer improves. A short course of mas- sage thus proves most useful, and on resuming the iron there is an immediate improvement. I have found massage of much value in certain stages of SYPHILIS, especially in women. The patient has perhaps been well treated, and has taken mercury in small doses at intervals for a year or more, and all the active symptoms have subsided. A general condition of debility, however, still persists, which is
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