Massage and the original Swedish movements : their application to various diseases of the body / by Kurre W. Ostrom.

  • Ostrom, Kurre W. (Kurre Wilhelm), 1865-
Date:
1919
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Credit: Massage and the original Swedish movements : their application to various diseases of the body / by Kurre W. Ostrom. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Thus we see that among the ancients the most common movements were a few passive manipula- tions, while in the Middle Ages the gymnastics of an earlier period were more or less forgotten. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries well- known physicians recommended gymnastics. Fuller and Tissot wished to combine the movements with the study of medicine. In the early part of the last century a therapeutic system of gymnastics acquired a reputation heretofore unknown, in movements based upon a certain action between operator and patient. The Swede, P. H. Ling (1776-1839), and his predecessors, erected the first scientific system, in which they adopted the new medical science, making the movement treatment a perfectly scien- tific remedy, worthy of the confidence of every educated man. In our own time, Dr. Mezger, of Wiesbaden, has demonstrated certain passive movements, and arranged them into a system that is now indorsed by every intelligent physician.
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