Massage as a mode of treatment / by William Murrell.

  • William Murrell
Date:
1887
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    than an integral part, and present a striking contrast to the healthy, well-developed, and well-nourished limbs. The general mode of treatment to be adopted has already been sufficiently indicated in the lecture to which I have already referred {La?icei, Dec. 26, 1S85). In essential paralysis, as we have already seen, the legs or at all events the affected members are always cold, and the muscles react but feebly to the electrical current. By systematic massage an improvement is speedily effected. We resort chiefly to pe'trissage associating it of course with effleurage. Both pro- cesses must be centripetal, working upwards from the extremities. The sittings should be at first of short duration and frequently repeated, say three or four times a day, but in chronic cases twice a day will suffice. The first effect noticed is that the limbs be- come much warmer, and this is not temporary, but lasts for some hours. Then it is seen that the suscep- tibility of the muscles to the electrical current is greatly increased, so that they contract at once after a few minutes massage to a stimulus which would otherwise exert not the slightest eflfect. During the
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