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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    beat most men in riding-, driving-, swimming- or even billiards. She vi^orked hard and -when people were in trouble they consulted her in preference to the clerg-y- man of the parish or even the doctor, knowing- that they would command her sympathy and active cooperation, and receive good sound practical advice into the bar- gain. It is needless to remark that possessing all these good qualities she was married. She had been ill for some time, but how long she could not say, for she made light of her own ailments, and refused even to discuss her symptoms until she was tem- porarily incapacitated for active work. She suffered severely from pain in the back between the shoulder- blades, brought on by the slightest exertion or even by mental worry or anxiety. It was a hot burning pain, and on examination there was found to be marked tenderness over the spinal processes extend- ing from the first to the sixth dorsal vertebrae, and increased by the application of a hot sponge. The weight of her clothes was a source of discomfort, so that even in winter she went about lightly clad. I suggested a course of Massage and she came to London and took rooms in order to be near me. She
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