On Paralysis in Infancy, Childhood, and Youth: And on the Prevention and Treatment of Paralytic Deformities

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Groombridge, 1869 - 116 Seiten
 

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Seite 77 - Rubbing can bind and loosen ; can make flesh and cause parts to waste. Hard rubbing binds; soft rubbing loosens; much rubbing causes parts to waste ; moderate rubbing makes them grow.
Seite 81 - The school buildings are now ready for occupancy, and it is to be hoped that no time will be lost in starting the school.
Seite 81 - ... and others ; and my own experience has convinced me that this fact is not yet sufficiently recognized and acted upon in practice. That in many cases neither tenotomy nor apparatus can be dispensed with I fully believe : that in all cases the electrical and gymnastical parts of the treatment are of primary rather than of merely secondary importance I am every day more and more convinced, because every day I meet with instances of muscles which I should once have looked upon as hopelessly paralyzed...
Seite 105 - Engravings, is. 7. Table, showing a few Injurious Positions, and some Deformities of the Spine, produced partly by bad positions, and tight lacing. With Forty-six Engravings.
Seite 88 - It is a law of the animal economy, " that the exercise of an organ is necessary not only to its perfection but even to its preservation.
Seite 105 - OR MOVEMENTS ACCORDING TO LING'S SYSTEM. With forty-two illustrations. For the Development and Strengthening of the Human Body in Childhood and in Youth.
Seite 82 - For my own part I may say that I have long been in the habit of using various movements and manipulations in the treatment of paralysis, and that I am every day more and more convinced that to omit such movements and manipulations in these cases is to deprive the patient of a most important aid to recovery.
Seite 73 - ... apt to do mischief, and never does good. I have seen cases in which, after the employment of electricity for some time, that agent has apparently brought on pain in the head, and has excited something like inflammatory process in the brain. And so strychnia also will induce an analogous condition of brain, and will increase the rigidity of the paralyzed muscles.
Seite 58 - In some instances the exaggerated sensibility continues for several weeks, though this is unusual ; and when this is the case, the leg being the seat of the affection, and the paralysis incomplete, the existence of hip-joint disease may very likely be suspected. In such a case the child bears all its weight on the healthy limb, turns the foot of the affected side inwards when walking, and stands with the toes of that foot resting on the dorsum of the foot of the healthy side. Still it will usually...
Seite 73 - I know of nothing which more decidedly benefits the paralyzed limbs than a regular system of exercise : active when the patient is capable of it, passive, if otherwise. As to the use of electricity, which is now much in vogue, or the...

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