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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    and assimilation, with the least expenditure of nerve force, which latter should always be conserved in the sick. Having so great control of so many conditions, one can easi¬ ly imagine how definite physiological states can be induced by movements at the will of the operator. This treatment is based on the assumption that there are two capillary states in all cases of chronia disease ; viz., what is called a venous and an arterial capillarity ; and it is the capillary system that the movements are intended to effect; the kind and quality of the particular movement depend upon which of these conditions is to be acted upon. A relaxed and expanded tissue is said to have a venous capillarity; while a retracted tissue is said to have an arterial capillarity ; that is, it is the venous or the arterial capillaries that are affected, as the case may be. Thus in asthma, diarrhoea, and relaxed tissues the venous capillaries are at fault; but in consumption, constipation and hard, contracted tissues, the ar¬ terial capillaries are not in a healthy condition. Extreme and unmistakable illustrations of these different capillary states are found in the hyperaemia of the lower extremities in preg¬ nant women, where the venous blood cannot return into the cir¬ culation, and in those stiff and contracted muscles, the result of inflammation, where the arterial blood cannot flow into the capil¬ laries sufficiently to afford proper nourishment to the tissues. An example of each of these conditions may be seen in lateral curvature of the spine ; the shortened muscles on ^the concave side of the spine being in an arterial, and the lengthened muscles on the convex side being in a venous capillary state. In treatment, the movements are such as to correct these capil¬ lary conditions. According to Ling there are three orders of manifestations, in man, the harmony of which is health. But when there is a want of harmony, or ill-health, the balance is to be restored, and health promoted through those manifestations only that are ab¬ normal. These three orders of manifestations are : 1st. Intellectual manifestations, or the influence of the mind over the bodily functions through the brain and nervous system. 2d. Chemical manifestations ; nutrition, embracing assimila¬ tion, dissimilation, calorification, food, drink, air, medication,
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