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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    taken, life may be prolonged for many hours and even one or two days. I remember a case in point. A young- and beautiful woman, recently married, took a large dose of chloral one night about ten o'clock, because her husband had some papers to read and would not come to bed. I saw her at twelve, and she was then profoundly insensible, and as seriously ill as any respectable young married woman could wish to be. She was deadly cold, and I had to drag her round the room in her night-gown, followed by the cook and the house- maid, for the greater part of the night. She recovered, but it was not till daylight that she was out of danger. This occurred in London, and not the slightest difficulty would have been experi- enced in obtaining skilled assistance in performing Massage had it been considered advisable to resort to it. In out of the way country districts it would not be so easy, but it must be remembered that it is only in large towns that husbands decline to go to bed and sit up late at night to read legal documents. In one of the most determined cases of suicide I ever tnessed, the poor fellow had taken three hundred wit
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