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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    distilling^ amber, and purified by rectification. When pure it is almost colourless. It is the Oleum Succini of the United States Pharmacopoeia, and the Huile Volaiile de Succin of French writers. I think it is useful for slight cases, and when massage cannot be obtained I often prescribe it. It is said to be the active ingredient in Roche's Embrocation, and in Haarlem oil, which is a mixture of balsam of sulphur, Barbadoes tar, oil of turpentine, linseed oil, and oil of amber. Rubbed into the spine night and morning it is an excellent remedy for whooping-cough. These of course are not quoted as cases of rheu- matism treated by massage. I often find massage of the greatest value in this condition after the complete failure of ordinary rubbing. A lady who has for many years suffered from chronic articular rheuma- tism, recently told me that she derived more benefit from three week's massage, which was carried out under my direction, than from all the drugs she had ever taken, and this is not an exceptional experience. M, Martin, of Lyons, has recorded a number of cases of lumbago treated by massage, and Laisnd has published other cases treated by what he calls mas-
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