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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    a most valuable accessory. Persistent anaemia is often met with in women who take little exercise and remain indoors the greater part of the winter. Iron up to a certain point does good, but after a time it is not assimilated, and fails to do any good, and the patient no longer improves. A short course of mas- sage then proves most useful, and on resuming the iron there is immediate improvement. I have found massage of much value in certain stages of SYPHILIS, especially in women. The patient has perhaps been well treated, and has taken mercury in small doses at intervals for a year or more, and all the active symptoms have subsided. A general condition of debility, however, still persists, which is intensified rather than relieved by medicinal treat- ment. Massage may then be resorted to with great benefit, the patient rapidly improving in general health. General Massage was of essential service in the case of a lady whose left breast had been removed for CANCER. There had been a recurrence of the disease and the axillary glands were extensively involved. She suffered much pain with a sensation of ''contraction in the corresponding arm. Mas- I 2
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