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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    ant startings to which many paralysed or partially paralysed persons are liable, but it can hardly be expected to effect a cure. In all cases of chronic paralysis progress must of necessity be very slow, and Schreiber very properly lays much stress on the ne- cessity for patience and preservance. It is perhaps hardly necessary to say that by massage I mean real massage, or to point out that these good results are not likely to follow what is commonly called medical rubbing. The late Mr. Maclean in a short commu- cation to the Lancet, 1877, vol. i., p. 311, says:— Friction is the only form ol manipulation ordinarily made use of by the profession in the treatment of paralysis, and when the medical attendant orders friction, the medical rubber is usually called in, and without any instructions from the medical atten- tion is left to his own devices, which in most cases consists in rubbing the skin with various degrees ot force, using as a lubricating agent some oil to which some virtue is ascribed. If attention is directed to it, one immediately recognises the fact that such mani- pulation as this can have little effect on anything but the skin itself.
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