Home study course in osteopathy, massage and manual therapeutics.

Date:
[between 1900 and 1909?]
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Credit: Home study course in osteopathy, massage and manual therapeutics. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LESSON IX SPECIAL TREATMENTS FEVERS, CONTAGIOUS DISEASES, ETC. Our advice to the student is to confine himself to chronic cases and to let acute diseases severely alone for the present. We say this because we know that the public is ignorant re- garding the truth underlying the various systems of thera- peutics, and that the loss of a single acute case (and every physician must lose some) will hurt the Osteopath materially, whereas the public will think nothing of the loss of a dozen of the Drug-Doctors’ patients. Later on, when the public be- comes accustomed to Osteopathic theories and practice, things will be different. For the present the Osteopath should con- tent himself with curing the chronic cases, most of which have been pronounced incurable by the Drug Doctors. Besides this, office practice is the most profitable, and more easily built up. By all means confine yourself to the chronic cases. We give you general treatment for use in cases of fevers, etc., as you may be called upon to use same in cases of emergency. GENERAL TREATMENT OF FEVERS Osteopathy offers a treatment which will reduce the tem- perature of the body in less than one-half the time required by any other therapeutic method. The treatment consists of pressure upon the vaso-motor centre, thus reducing the gen- eral blood pressure, slowing the action of the heart, and reduc- ing the temperature. The vaso-motor centre is reached by a pressure upon the upper cervicals, and at the same time tipping the head backward, so as to bring a pressure upon the nerves over the cervical vaso-motor centre. The following general treatment will be found efficacious in cases of fevers, although you must use your own good judgment, as no two cases of fever are exactly alike: TREATMENT (i) Begin by giving a thorough Spinal Treatment, as follows: The patient on his side, then using the palmar sur-
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