Massotherapeutics, or, Massage as a mode of treatment / by William Murrell.

  • William Murrell
Date:
1889
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Credit: Massotherapeutics, or, Massage as a mode of treatment / by William Murrell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Massage is recommended by many Continental writers in the treatment of Sterility, and there is strong evidence that it is useful in some forms of this condition. In a well-known group of symptoms from which women frequently suffer, Massage is essentially useful. I some time ago saw a lady, aged 45, or thereabouts, a professional singer, who was labouring under the impression that she was going mad. She was so nervous that she was quite unable to accept an en- gagement, although she had constantly been before the public, and had hardly missed a night for twenty years. She told me that she felt she was not to be trusted, and that, if left alone, she would do herself or her children an injury. She was afraid to go near an open window, so great was the temptation to throw herself out; and she even begged that the knives might be removed from the table at dinner. These symptoms were greatly intensified after each monthly period, and she insisted that she was suffer- ing from cancer, or some organic disease of the stomach or womb. She was restless at night, and would often get up in the early morning and walk for
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