Principles of osteopathyBaumgardt Publishing Company, 1903 - 352 pages |
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abdomen action activity affect ankylosis arteries articulation atlas bacteria bladder blood vessels bone capillaries cause cells cervical nerves cervical vertebra circulation condition connection cutaneous diagnosis digital pressure disease dislocation distribution disturbance dorsal dorsal spine examination fact fibers fibres fifth fingers function ganglia ganglion glands head heart hence hyperaemia illustrates immunity impulses increased influence inhibition inhibitory innervated intercostal intestines irritation joint kyphosis lesion lessened ligaments lumbar luxation manipulation mechanical membrane method motor movement mucous muscles muscular contraction neck nerve trunk normal noted osteo osteopathic pain palpation patient pelvic physician physiological plexus pneumogastric portion position posterior rami-communicantes reflex region relations relaxation resistance result ribs sacral scapula secretory sensitive sensory nerves side skin spinal area spinal column spinal cord spinal nerves splanchnic stimulation structural subluxation superior cervical ganglion surface sympathetic tension tenth rib therapeutic thorax tion tissue transverse process treatment vaso-constrictor vaso-dilator vaso-motor center viscera viscus
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Page 20 - ... including the chemistry and physics of its known elements, as has made discoverable certain organic laws and remedial resources, within the body itself, by which nature under the scientific treatment peculiar to osteopathic practice, apart from all ordinary methods of extraneous, artificial or medicinal stimulation, and in harmonious accord with its own mechanical principles, molecular activities, and metabolic processes, may recover from displacements, disorganizations, derangements and consequent...
Page 135 - On the Influence of Mechanical and Physiological Rest in the Treatment of Accidents and Surgical Diseases, and the Diagnostic Value of Pain.
Page 142 - when a painful stimulus is applied to a part of low sensibility in close central connection with a part of much greater sensibility the pain produced is felt in the part of higher sensibility rather than in the part of lower sensibility to which the stimulus was actually applied.
Page 25 - I know from personal observation that our cousins across the water do not prescribe or swallow one-fourth as much medicine as we do .in our country. With but few exceptions, the entire vegetable and mineral kingdoms have given us little of specific value ; but still, up to the present day the bulk of our books on materia medica is made up of a description of many valueless drugs and preparations. Is it not to be deplored that valuable time should be wasted in our student days by cramming into our...
Page 135 - 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 226 - Immunity, whether natural or acquired, is due to the presence of substances which are formed by the metabolism of the animals rather than by that of the microbe, and which have the power of destroying either the microbe, against which immunity is possessed, or the products on which their pathogenic action depends.
Page 21 - Osteopathy means that science or system of healing which treats diseases of the human body by " manual therapeutics for the vital remedial forces within the body itself, for the correction of misplaced tissue and the removal of obstructions or interferences with the fluids of the body," all without the internal administration of drugs or medicines...
Page 48 - ... may build it up into their own substance with the least trouble ; and (2) in receiving the waste matters which arise in muscular and nervous tissues, and preparing them for rapid and easy ejection from the body.
Page 20 - The human body is a machine run by the unseen force called life, and that it may be run harmoniously it is necessary that there be liberty of blood, nerves, and arteries from the generatingpoint to destination.
Page 122 - ... but, from the occasional coalescence of two, their number is uncertain. These ganglia are placed on each side of the spine, resting against the heads of the ribs, and covered by the pleura costalis : the last two are, however, anterior to the rest, being placed on the side of the bodies of the vertebrae. The ganglia are small in size, and of a grayish color.