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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    walk about the room the greater part of the night. Three weeks general massage cured her entirely. I have met with several similar cases, and the condition ^eems to be allied to what is often called fidgets. I have seen it in quite young- women, chiefly in those who are nervous and excitable, and suffer from neu- ralgia. I do not know of any drug that takes in this group of symptoms, and have no doubt that massage is the best remedy. A lady who suffered from it told nie that she was often impelled to get up in the middle of the night and walk round the square in scanty attire. Massage is a most valuable therapeutic agent, and will yield good results in many complaints, other than those I have roughly indicated. HIND-WORDS. Mr. Bernard Quaritch has kindly placed at my dis- posal a curious paper, entitled A Brief Account of Mr. Valentine Greatrack's («<r) and Diver's of the Strange Cures by him lately performed, as written
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