Massage as a mode of treatment / by William Murrell.

  • William Murrell
Date:
1887
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

    112/188 page 100
    CHAPTER X. Spinal Irritation and Massage. Massage is of the greatest use in the various forms of that peculiar and interesting condition described many years ago by the late Mr. Thomas Pridgin Teale, of Leeds, and the brothers Dr. and Mr. Griffin, of Limerick, and now commonly known as spinal IRRITATION. Mr. Pridgin Teale in his classical work says:—The symptoms of this affection consist in an infinite variety of morbid functions of the nerves of sensation and volition, which have their origin in the spinal marrow, and the parts in which these morbid functions are exhibited of course bear reference to the distribution of the spinal nerves. The morbid states of sensation include every variety, from the slightest deviation from healthy sensibility of any part, to the most painful neuralgic affections on the one hand, and to complete numbness or loss of feel- ing on the other, including pains which may be fixed or fugitive, or darting in the direction of the nerves, pricking and tingling sensations, a sense of creeping
    No text description is available for this image
    No text description is available for this image
    No text description is available for this image