Fat and Blood: An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria

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J.B. Lippincott, 1883 - Bed rest - 166 pages
 

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Page 38 - the woman grows pale and thin, eats little, or if she eats does not profit by it. Everything wearies her,—to sew, to write, to read, to walk, —and by and by the sofa or the bed is her only comfort. Every effort is paid for dearly, and
Page 49 - hysterical girl is, as Wendell Holmes has said in his decisive phrase, a vampire who sucks the blood of the healthy people about her; and I may add that pretty surely where there is one hysterical girl there will be soon or late two sick women.
Page 73 - more largely, and the interosseous groups worked at with the finger-tips between the bones. At last the whole tissues of the foot are seized with both hands and somewhat firmly rolled about. Next the ankles are dealt with in like fashion, all the crevices between the articulating
Page 73 - the skin, rolling it lightly between his fingers and going carefully over the whole foot; then the toes are bent and moved about in every direction, and next, with the thumbs and fingers, the little muscles of the foot are kneaded more largely, and the interosseous groups worked
Page 74 - of the large muscular masses, which for this purpose are put in a position of the utmost relaxation. The grasp of the muscles should be firm, and for the large muscles of the calf and thigh both hands should act together, the masses of
Page 74 - the flow of venous blood-currents, and then returns to the kneading of the muscles. The same process is carried on in every part of the body, and especial care is given to the muscles of the loins and spine, while usually the face is not touched. The abdomen is first treated
Page 58 - months. At first, and in some cases for four or five weeks, I do not permit the patient to sit up, or to sew or write or read, or to use the hands in any active way except to clean the teeth.
Page 77 - Occasionally I meet with feeble persons as to whom the masseurs remark that they " rub wet," —that is, under massage they perspire remarkably. If the case proves successful, this peculiarity soon passes away. The daily massage is kept up through at least six weeks, and then, if everything seems to me to be going along well, I direct the rubber or
Page 26 - is to overcome excessive tendency to accumulation of either surface fat or visceral fat, and at the same time to produce a fat which will not melt or boil away in cooking. Oily foods have a tendency to make soft fats which will not bear cooking." Such differences are also seen between English and American bacon, the former being much more
Page 77 - nurse to spend half of the hour in exercising the limbs as a preparation for walking. This is done after the Swedish plan, by making very slowly passive and extreme extensions and flexions of the limbs for a few days, then assisted

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