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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    cure of many inflammatory diseases of the skin, as erysipelas, eczema, burning ; in induration and swelling of different glands, diseases of the articulation, absorption of hydropic exudation, and effusion of blood; for the cure of wounds, ulcers, fistulee, phlebitis, varix, etc. 14 MetJiodus natiseotica. Nausea is produced by the turning in a circle; as for instance, on a turning chair, and also by circular frictions of the stomach region, 15, Methodus roborans tonica increases the effective faculty of the muscular and contracted fibres; amongst its means are, bodily labour, exercise, active general movements diminishing the over-sensibility of the skin towards external agents, by frictions, vibrations, etc. 16. Methodus dehilitans, or weakening cure; to this belong all passive movements which diminish the circu- lation, active muscular action, and the nutrition by local compression, pressure, bandages, etc. 17- Curative method hy music. The tune, which is but the name of a vibration produced by the air on our auditive nerve, is very important in the cure of deaf- ness, because this nerve is particularly disposed to become paralysed by inattention and disuse. It appears that the faculty of hearing is, in many of the most different treat- ments, increased in the begianing, so long as we try the hearing of the patient daily at a certain distance; on the contrary, the deafness returns, if we cease these daily trials. The vibrations of the air produced by loud sound serve as artificial remedies, as an arousing, awakening influence, and gentle sounds as soothing and tranquillising. Major and minor chords, and music in general, belong to the artificial movements produced by the air, which air itself, by its different pressure, by the differences of high tempera- ture, electricity, terrestrial magnetism, density, humidity, etc., acts differently as well on the external skin as on the respiratory organs and the senses. Music acts very successfully in psychical diseases, and the difference of the number of vibrations and of their different combi-