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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    was at one time a deep-rooted objection to Massage as a method of treatment, but this gradually dis- appeared, and it is now generally admitted that it is really a useful and scientific mode of cure, not un- worthy of the notice of even the most orthodox physician or surgeon. More than ten years ago it received in Germany the adhesion and support ot such distinguished authorities as Billroth, Esmarch, and Langenbeck. It is not free from the taint of quackery, but as a recent writer says:—Quackery does not consist in the thing that is done, so much as the spirit in which it is done. The most time- honoured and orthodox remedies may be employed in such a manner, and by men boasting of the highest qualifications, as to be fairly chargeable with this taint. That we should be debarred from the use of such potent therapeutic agents as Massage, or systematic muscular exercise, or electricity, or hydro- therapeutics and the like, because in unworthy hands they have been abused, seems to me almost worse than absurdity. As much misconception still exists on the subject, it may be as well to point out the differences between
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