Massage : principles and practice of remedial treatment by imparted motion mechanical processes / by Geo. H. Taylor.
- George H. Taylor
- Date:
- [1887], ©1887
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Massage : principles and practice of remedial treatment by imparted motion mechanical processes / by Geo. H. Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![of the involuntary powers to decline and become insufficient for nutritive requirements. The activities of all classes of muscles evolve energy of the motor variety, no part of which is wasted or lost, but the whole becomes available to the organism. These motor effects converge at one point, expressed by the word mctrition. They serve for the support of the mtal cell, from which energy is finally evolved, and for the disposal and discharge of the materials from which energy in its different forms is separated, and from which the powere of the individual are derived. While the apparent motion ends, its equivalent remains embodied in advancing stages of the nutritive processes. Through the instrumentahty of automatic motor-energy the details of physi- ology are perfected; and so a sm^^lus of power for external use becomes possible. Wlien any part of such physiological detail becomes imperfect, the fact is instantly indicated by a curtailment of exterior manifestations of motor and, indeed, of other forms of energy. The above physiological detail indicates not only what becomes of the motor-energy hberally expended Avithin the vital organism, but also, the necessity for an equally liberal jirovision on the part of nature of a ]iliysiolog icivl median- ism suitable for the ])uri)oso. An indication](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20388676_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
