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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    Seguin's American Clinical Lectures in 1875, Weir Mitchell points out that it is easy for a physician to say to a woman who has been in bed for a month and is able enough to get up: Now the time has come for you to leave your bed, but he may find perhaps that she has gained a set belief that she cannot get up, and that to give her back the assur- ance of her ableness to walk is no light or easy matter. There are other grave objections to the isolation treatment. In the first place it brands the patient with the name of hysteria. Then again people are not very particular to distinguish accu- rately between isolation and seclusion, and to say of a young lady that she was for a time in seclu- sion is not to improve her matrimonial prospects. It seems, too, an unwise thing to trust an uneducated • nurse with a galvanic battery and let her use it on a patient without knowing or perhaps caring what pain she may give or what harm she may do. The expense, as I have said, is a serious consideration, and if uneducated labour is employed, as is un- doubtedly often the case, I cannot see why such heavy fees should be charged. It is a perfectly
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