ON THE SELECTION OF CASES FOR TREATMENT 33
CHAPTER IV.
SECLUSION 50
CHAPTER V.
REST 67
CHAPTER VI.
MASSAGE 80
CHAPTER VII.
ELECTRICITY 108
CHAPTER VIII.
DIETETICS AND THERAPEUTICS 119
CHAPTER IX.
DIETETICS AND THERAPEUTICS--(_Continued_) 171
CHAPTER X.
THE TREATMENT OF LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA, ATAXIC
PARAPLEGIA, SPASTIC PARALYSIS, AND PARALYSIS
AGITANS 197
INDEX 233
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY.
For some years I have been using with success, in private and in
hospital practice, certain methods of renewing the vitality of feeble
people by a combination of entire rest and excessive feeding, made
possible by passive exercise obtained through the steady use of massage
and electricity.
The cases thus treated have been chiefly women of a class well known to
every physician,--nervous women, who, as a rule, are thin and lack
blood. Most of them have been such as had passed through many hands and
been treated in turn for gastric, spinal, or uterine troubles, but who
remained at the end as at the beginning, invalids, unable to attend to
the duties of life, and sources alike of discomfort to themselves and
anxiety to others.
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