Health and how to Get itCharles Lee Bryson |
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abdomen absorbed and carried ache adenoid affected applicator treat arms attack backbone ball applicator bladder blood vessels body bones bowels brain Bright's disease brush applicator capillaries catarrh cause chest chronic circulation cold congestion constipation cough cramp cure diarrhea digestion dropsy especially excretion eyes fever flat applicator flow of blood gently germs give glands hair head headache heart heavy pressure indigestion inflammation irritation joint knee large intestine legs ligaments liver Lumbago lungs lymphatics massage membrane ment motion mucus muscles neck nervous ness neuralgia New-Life nose nutrition organs pain patient percussion stroke plicator poisons rectal relieved remove rheumatism ribs rupture scalp sciatic nerve sciatica shoulder blades side skin soft sometimes soothing sore spinal cord spine sponge applicator stomach stroking downward swelling symptoms tendons thigh throat tion tism tissues tonsilitis treatment trouble tubes uric acid usually vibration offers vibrator vigorous Wallian waste matter weak windpipe writes Dr
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Page 45 - The nervous system The nervous system consists of the brain, the spinal cord, and the nerves that issue from them.
Page 236 - ... Wier-Mitchell realized the potency of mechanical vibration he could have dispensed with his professional masseurs and accomplished more by its aid in a fortnight, than without it in four months. But therapeutic advances come both slowly and singly. Thus has come this later ally of the progressive practitioner. In the language of Snow, "Vibration induces functional activity without the expenditure of active energy on the part of the patient." This makes it an ideal resource in neurasthenic conditions....
Page 77 - All writers agree that there is in a majority of cases of bronchial asthma a strong neurotic element," which has been the case with all cases under the writer's care.
Page 195 - The humblest and least distinguished of all the organs of the body can order the lordly head to ache for it, and the head has no alternative but to obey.
Page 248 - ... Chamomilla is the remedy, and it is found in connection with all kinds of diseases. It is also especially adapted to ailments brought on by fits of anger. In short, it is the leading anger remedy of the Materia Medica. It is also one of the leading remedies for pain, and there is this peculiarity about it, the pain is not always in proportion to the gravity of the case, and we often see, for instance, in labor, a great deal harder pains of which the patient does not complain half so loudly. But...
Page 72 - Use the ball applicator on either side of the spine, not pressing too heavily, and working from the nape of the neck to the base of the spine.
Page 64 - The kidneys are located in the small of the back, one on each side of the backbone. The urine which is produced is carried to the bladder through tubes, the ureters.
Page 298 - Then, with the ball applicator, holding it horizontally for the percussion stroke, treat the back of the neck from the base of the skull to the shoulders.
Page 242 - sciatica, either of the neuralgic or the neuritic form, is always accompanied by more or less inflammation of the muscles in the neighborhood of the nerve, and the treatment consists of massage not only of the nerve, but of the surrounding muscles.
Page 228 - He comes in with a firm, rather precise, calculated sort of gait, 'clumping' each foot upon the floor as if he had struck it an inch sooner than he...