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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![ing widely from each other cand therefore become differently affected by what is thus transferred to them. A portion of the motor impulse engages with fluids and continues unaltered. But a larger portion becomes fixed in connection with substances it meets. It becomes incorporated, assuming other forms of energy. It establishes new relations, ])re(]es- tined by the physics both mechanical and chemical of the vital organism. The motor energy communicated by the hand of another person, having assisted the varied physiological processes, finally emerges from the vital organ- ism in some form of expenditure of energy, and in perfected products of waste derived from the materials which have served nutritive purposes. The reader cannot but observe the resem- blance of this series of activities—the origin, transfer and expenditure of the powers of the living body—to that now farailar object the dynamo. This machine gives motor expres- sion to energy collected fi'om some adequate source of power, transfers it to a hke mechan- ism, and by the second machme it is expended in useful work.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20388676_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
