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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    pounds and even more being- charged for a few weeks' treatment by this method. It may be a per- fectly legitimate charge, but I confess I do not under- stand it, and I certainly should be sorry to pay it. Dr. Benjamin Lee, one of the best authorities on Massage in America, evidently regards overfeed- ing as anything but an unalloyed blessing, for he says:—The Italian ortolan, seduced by suppositious sunrises into taking five meals a day, is not as happy or lively a bird as his American cousin the bobolink, which feeds but twice. A Strasbourg goose is cer- tainly not the synonym of health and vigour; and however tempting a paie de foie gras xx\^y he to the palate of the epicure, the livers which compose it were anything but a source of comfort to their original owners. Life which depended on such livers was certainly not worth living. Zabludovski commenting on this special method of treatment, says that it is a mistake to place patients suffering from neurasthenia in a hospital or home where a number of invalids are congregated together, for they never do well, and it is much better that the patient should be surrounded by those who are well
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