Massage as a mode of treatment / by William Murrell.

  • William Murrell
Date:
1887
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Credit: Massage as a mode of treatment / by William Murrell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    energy, of tremblings in tlie back of the neck and down the spine, of being very nervous, and of a sensation as if he were sinking through the bed at night. Neurasthenia, or at all events a closely allied condition, is common amongst Americans who have been engaged in large business transactions. I recently had under my care a gentlemen who offered an excellent example of this condition. He was certainly one of the brightest and most original thinkers it has ever been my pleasure to meet, a brilliant conversationalist, a genial com- panion and a smart writer. He had built up a gigantic enterprise, and his operations were con- ducted on an enormous scale. He told me that he wrote or dictated as many as 90,000 letters a year. He had travelled all over the world and had made an enormous success. But everything had been on his shoulders, and after twelve years of hard work, both night and day, he felt that he could do no more and that he was temporarily played out. He tried rest, but to a man of his temperament rest was an impossibility, and he had little or no faith in medi- cines. He had been through all kinds of cures
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