The movement cure / by Charles F. Taylor.

  • Charles Fayette Taylor
Date:
1857
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Credit: The movement cure / by Charles F. Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    arrested. Since going home I hear that she gradually im¬ proves. These two cases, with the preceding remarks, will give the professional reader a sufficient idea of the wide applicability of this method of treatment, to answer both general and special indications. Indeed the facility with which this treatment can be adopted to special purposes, is another, and perhaps the most distinctive feature in the practice. The idea, that there are well-defined differences in the effects of different movements may seem novel at first; but Ling and his followers have done but little more than classify, arrange and systematise ideas and practices that are to be found in every community, and are ob¬ served by all. For instance, it is well known that carriage - riding is more useful for the consumptive; horseback-riding for the dyspeptic and constipated; in Ireland, the liver com¬ plaint is cured by climbing trees and swinging by the hands from the branches; and in some parts of this country sup¬ pression of the menstrual flow is cured by causing the patient to creep down-stairs “head foremost.” Even the positions men assume in different trades have much influence, so that different classes of people have their characteristic diseases. Plaving thus briefly and imperfectly directed attention to the subject of employing bodily movements for the cure of many forms of chronic disease, I submit whether it is not a subject worthy the investigation of every member of the medical pro¬ fession, who desires to advance medical science and promote the interest and health of his patrons. 650 Sixth Avenue, New- York. ADDITIONAL CASES. Case I. PotVs Disease and Curvature of the Spine. This is a case of a little girl, ten years old, living in the cen¬ tral part of this State, who was brought to me on the tenth of January last. She had been failing in health for the past year or two, but still did not exhibit the usual degree of prostration commonly attending this disease in its advanced stages. This was undoubtedly mainly owing to the very intelligent and judi¬ cious care taken of her by her mother, who adopted every hygie¬ nic means in her power to promote her daughter’s health. She had light complexion and hair, blue eyes, and was very intelligent
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