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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    and indurated, with most probably enlarged ab- sorbent glands in the neighbourhood. The neck and shoulders will frequently be tender to the touch, and the muscular and other fibres will be dry and will crackle perhaps on pressure. He will notice a similar condition of the shoulders and upper part of the back in asthmatic patients particularly, and he finds the long muscles of the back very much disordered, in many chronic diseases affecting the stomach, liver, kidneys, etc. The arms and legs will on examination present swellings and harden- - ings and thickenings, accompanied by swollen glands in a multitude of patients. The credit of this ob- servation is assigned to a certain Mr. Beveridge, who many years ago practised as a rubber in Edinburgh, and the existence of these indurations has been confirmed by Norstrom, Henschen, Vretlind, and other writers. Beveridge we are told, found that they could be dispersed by friction, and that coincidentally with the removal of these deposits as they were called, the patient's health materially improved, and sometimes chronic diseases of long standing were cured. A young gentleman, the son
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