Massage and its applications : a concluding lecture delivered to nurses and masseuses, at the School of Electricity and Massage in connection with the West-End Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System, Paralysis, and Epilepsy, 73, Welbeck Street, London, W. / by Herbert Tibbits.

  • Herbert Tibbits
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[1887]
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Credit: Massage and its applications : a concluding lecture delivered to nurses and masseuses, at the School of Electricity and Massage in connection with the West-End Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System, Paralysis, and Epilepsy, 73, Welbeck Street, London, W. / by Herbert Tibbits. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    NERVE VIBRATION. The principle of Nerce Vibration (so called,) is the action upon a Vtrcc, by mechanical vibration, or tappim/, applied by a special instrument with its accessories, as designed by Dr Mortimer Granville.* The benefit derived from such a method of treatment becomes comprehensible to all of us when we recall to mind— as must be so largely in our experience—how simple friction of the skin will sometimes soothe very acute pain. The essential part of the apparatus used, is shown in Fig. 1. The Pcrcuteur, is, as you see, held in the hand of the operator, and its vibrations may be brought into action either by the agency of electricity or by clockwork, a is a slide by which Fig 1. the speed and the power of the stroke may be regulated, b, is the pointed ivory hammer, or other fitting, by which the percussion is made. A flat-headed hammer, or a wire brush, may be substituted for the ivory point. * Nerve Vibhation and Excitation by J. Mortimer Granville, M.D. &c. J. & A. Churchill, Now Burlington Street.
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