The nursing and care of the nervous and the insane / By Charles K. Mills.
- Charles Karsner Mills
- Date:
- 1900
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The nursing and care of the nervous and the insane / By Charles K. Mills. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![English, because the English equivalent is used to de- scribe one of the particular modes of massage, and also because the former has now a well-established position and definite signification in scientific medical literature all over the world. The same authority defines mas- sage as a communication of motion to the tissues of the living human body from an external source for thera- peutic purposes; but this definition does not define the term as it is commonly used,—that is, under it might be included Swedish movements and motion commu- nicated by means of steam, electricity, or special me- chanical agency. The latter forms of massage are sometimes spoken of as mediate,—that is, they are motions or movements communicated to the body through some contrivance or machine. It is to what is sometimes called immediate massage that the term is commonly restricted, and it is with reference to this form that my remarks in this connection apply. Mas- sage, then, in the sense in which I here employ the term, is the manipulation by a definite process of the tissues and organs of the human body by a living operator, for the purpose of promoting health or of relieving or curing disease. The subject has been unnecessarily confused and complicated by the multiplications of terms describing so-called methods of massage; thus, Estrader6, accord- ing to Lee, speaks of such a variety of procedures as stroking, friction, kneading, sawing, pulling, pinching, malaxation, percussion, chopping, clapping, pointed vibrations, and deep vibrations. These terms really represent only a. few essentia] rnethods of procedure.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21013147_0044.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
