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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    WHITE S WELLING. world to be under his treatment. He selected his cases carefully, and declined to undertake those which in his opinion would not yield speedily to treatment. He recommended friction for contrac- tions of the joints, unattended with inflammatory symptoms proceeding- from colds, damp beds, or rheumatism. He thinks too that it is useful where there is too great a secretion of the synovial fluid of the joints, particularly in the knee-joints. Good results have in his hands followed this treatment in incipient cases of white swelling. He by no means confines himself to surgical cases, but devotes much attention to children who are weakly or rickety, or in whom the circulation is languid. It is recorded of Mr. Grosvenor that he always in- sisted that his patients should work with him. Your own constant exertions are necessary as well as mine he would say. He occupied a good deal of his leisure time in walking with his lame patients, in order that he might judge for himself what pro- gress they were making. The book is interesting and well worth reading. If some months ago I had been asked if Massage
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