The prevention and cure of many chronic diseases by movements : an exposition of the principles and practice by these movements for the correction of the tendencies to disease in infancy, childhood, and youth, and for the cure of many morbid affections of adults / by M. Roth.

  • Roth, Mathias, 1839-1891.
Date:
1851
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Credit: The prevention and cure of many chronic diseases by movements : an exposition of the principles and practice by these movements for the correction of the tendencies to disease in infancy, childhood, and youth, and for the cure of many morbid affections of adults / by M. Roth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the disease was written by the patient himself, and is communicated by Rothstein. The first symptoms of my abdominal disease appeared in the year 1828, when I was seventeen years of age. My appetite was exceedingly great, and as soon as I satisfied it, I became unwell. In consequence of this I had recourse to medical advice, which I made use of at difierent times, and by which my disorder was relieved for a time, but never cured ; on the contrary, it increased yearly. My appetite became so ravenous, that I trembled sometimes throughout my body. If I took anything, especially if I drank a glass of water, I became ill- tempered. I had eructation, and felt very tired; my wish for drink, with burning thirst, was also very much increased. At last my stomach became so bad, I was obliged to restrict my daily food to some biscuits. and a little fluid. I continued this manner of living, but felt so tired, that I employed every hour my business per- mitted to sleep, without feeling any strength after it. I felt better on those days on which I took a purgative, which I did generally once a week. Having already con- sulted many eminent physicians without success, I lost all hope of my health being re-established, which was the more natural, because I became such a hypochondriac that the least thing produced anger and excitement. Finally, I sought relief in the Central Institution (at Stockholm), in which I began the treatment by movements, December 22nd, 1844. A few days afterwards I was a little better, and after six weeks my disease was almost entirely cured; my stools were as regular as they were irregular before, and I was quite changed. From that time my temper once more became cheerful. I ate and drank whatever I liked, without previously asking very anxiously whether I might or not; and as I have been in this state of good health more than a year, I can say with perfect confidence