The Treatment of disease by physical methodsE.B. Treat, 1899 - 412 pages |
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Page 252 - The same trunks of nerves whose branches supply the groups of muscles moving a joint furnish also a distribution of nerves to the skin over the insertions of the same muscles ; and — what at thin moment more especially merits our attention — the interior of the joint receives its nerves from the same source.
Page 270 - A new prospect bursts upon the view ; there is a mental result of sensation, emotion, thought — terminating in outward displays of speech or gesture. Parallel to this mental series is the physical series of facts, the successive agitation of the physical organs, called the eye, the retina, the optic nerve, optic centres, cerebral hemispheres, outgoing nerves, muscles, &c.
Page 280 - The drunkard not only injures and enfeebles his own nervous system, but entails mental disease upon his family. His daughters are nervous and hysterical; his sons are weak, wayward, eccentric, and sink under the pressure of excitement of some unforeseen exigency, or the ordinary calls of duty.
Page 269 - ... any sequence of mental action which has been frequently repeated tends to perpetuate itself ; so that we find ourselves automatically prompted to think, feel, or do what we have been before accustomed to think, feel, or do, under like circumstances, without any consciously formed purpose, or anticipation of results.
Page 45 - The human hand is so beautifully formed, it has so fine a sensibility, that sensibility governs its motions so correctly, every effort of the will is answered so instantly, as if the hand itself were the seat of that will. Its actions are so powerful, so free, and yet so delicate...
Page 270 - It would be incompatible with everything we know of cerebral action to suppose that the physical chain ends abruptly in a physical void occupied by an immaterial substance, which immaterial substance, after working alone, imparts its results to the other edge of the physical break, and determines the active response — two shores of the material with an intervening ocean of the immaterial.
Page 321 - The appearance of either of the above signs of distress should be the signal for immediately interrupting the movement in process of execution, and for either supporting the limb which is being moved, or allowing it to subside into a state of rest. 6. The patient must be directed to breathe regularly and uninterruptedly, and should he find any difficulty in doing so, he must be instructed to continue counting in a whisper, during the progress of each movement.
Page 19 - We may infer from the facts above mentioned that the colouring matter of blood, like indigo, is capable of existing in two states of oxidation, distinguishable by a difference of colour and a fundamental difference in the action on the spectrum. It may be made to pass from the more to the less oxidized state by the action of suitable reducing agents, and recovers its oxygen by absorption from the air.
Page 23 - Muscles f>i uninjured frogs were exhausted by a series of rhythmic contractions caused by an induction current. Under massage they soon regained their lost vigor, so that the contractions were almost equal to the first, whilst a rest for the same period without massage had no effect. These experiments, showing the restorative effects of massage upon wearied muscles, were more than confirmed in man by the same investigator. He found that after severe exercise a rest of fifteen minutes brought about...
Page 122 - These hindrances are by massage both directly and through the medium of the vaso-motor nerves in great part removed. The contracting hands of the manipulator are, as it were, two more propelling hearts at the peripheral ends of the circulation, co-operating with the one at -the centre, and the analogy will not suffer if we bear in mind that the size of one's heart is about as large as the shut hand, and the number of intermittent squeezes of massage that act most favorably on vessels, muscles, and...