And so, if I may be permitted to compare
small things with great, will it be with this. The whole matter was
admirably summed up by Dr. Ross, of Manchester, in his remarks in
the discussion I introduced at the meeting of the British Medical
Association at Worcester, which I conceive to express the precise
state of the case: 'Although Dr. Mitchell's treatment was not new
in the sense that its separate recommendations were made for the
first time, it was new in the sense that these recommendations were
for the first time combined so as to form a complete scheme of
treatment.'"
As regards the acceptance of this method of treatment I have to-day no
complaint to make. It runs, indeed, the risk of being employed in cases
which do not need it and by persons who are not competent, and of being
thus in a measure brought into disrepute. As concerns one of its
essentials--massage--this is especially to be feared. It is a remedy
with capacity to hurt as well as to help, and should never be used
without the advice of a physician, nor persistently kept up without
medical observation of its temporary and more permanent effects.
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