Horse-back riding : from a medical point of view by Durant Ghislani

Author:Durant, Ghislani
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Horses, Horsemanship, Gymnastics
Publisher: New York : Cassell, Petter & Galpin
Published: 1878-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

exercise requires ; and where an inward curvature of the thigh bone is threatened, the tendency is lessened by the action of the muscles in riding, and if the limb be not straightened, at least a certain resistance is opposed to the deviation.

g-. Syphilis.—It may at the first glance seem strange that a sufferer from this disease, possessing, as it does, a well-marked specific character, can be benefited by horse-back riding. Nothing is more true, however; and since the question is both a delicate and serious one, we will give, as briefly and clearly as we can, our reasons.

According to Fleury, that, "As in any ordinary poisoning, the physician seeks not only to administer an antidote, but to cast out of the body, by the evacuations, the greatest possible quantity of the noxious substance, so in syphilitic infection the aim of the physician should not be alone directed toward the virus situated in the infected blood, but he should also strive to expel the poison through the various eliinmatorics of the system."

Every now and then cases are met with which, in consequence of constitutional idiosyncrasies or the late hour at which the treatment is begun, or sometimes owing to its being badly directed, stubbornly resist all specific remedies. The disease persistently increases in severity, the symptoms multiply, and, above all, tend to become permanent, and, finally, a

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