A few words on kinesipathy, or Swedish medical gymnastics : the application of active and passive movements to the cure of diseases, according to the method of P.H. Ling, and on the importance of introducing mechanical agency into the practice of medicine / by Augustus Georgii.

  • Georgii, Augustus.
Date:
1850
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    Physiological science is no longer a jonsting-field for loose hypotheses. Chemistry, natural philosophy, comparative anatomy, microscopy, &c. answer all the questions which the experimental physiologist puts to nature; and the science which treats of life itself and its many phenomena, will soon take its place amongst the exact sciences. The knowledge of the digestive process, of the phenomena of secretion, of sanguification, of the respiratory process, &c. being satisfactorily explained by direct experiment, has thus become enlarged and more accurately determined; and the observations of Sir Charles Bell with regard to the motory and sensitory nerves, opening a new field of research in the phenomena of the nervous system, have been not only corroborated but still further developed by the experiments of Magendie, Muller, Valentine, Flourens, Longet, Bernard, &c. ; the law relative to the excito-motory phenomena laid down by Marshall Hall has given rise to a series of disco- veries, amongst which, the most recent and perhaps most important, is that of Du Bois Raimond, proving the relation between nervous power and electricity.* What immense progress, what discoveries are every day made by human genius!—discoveries all tending * This discovery is of as much if not greater importance for natural philosophy as Oersted's discovery of the relation between the magnet and electricity. Dr. duBois' experiments, proving that in proportion to the intensity of our volition and the efforts of the voluntaiy muscles the magnetic needle is made to deviate in the same way as if influenced by the magnet or galvanism, open a new field for the researches of the natural philosopher, and give a new support to the doctrine of the reaction of tlie therapeutic movements on the neiTous system, &c.
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