Massage and the Original Swedish Movements by Massage & the Original Swedish Movements

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Massage and the Original Swedish Movements

accomplished if the drug is allowed to remain on the skin to be gradually absorbed. Three hot baths a week are generally recommended.

The new preparation ``Mercury-Vasogen'' is now generally used for inunction and it is far superior to the blue ointment as it works in so much quicker and does not leave a disagreeable odor. Besides it has been the author's experience that it does not produce any skin-affections, while the blue ointment is very apt to cause not only local irritations of the parts inuncted, but also eczema and erythema.

NEURALGIA

Diseases of the peripheric nerves are more successfully treated by mechanotherapy than are affections of the central nerve-system. Most neuralgias yield readily to massage, and in cases of sciatica it has been used with most excellent results.

For the latter disease, if the right leg is affected, use:

● 1. Stroking of right leg (from behind).

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● 2. Percussion and beating over the nerve.

● 3. Flexion and extension of right leg.

● 4. Raising of leg.

● 5. Beating of sacrum and right leg.

FIG. 110. -- Right Method of Stroking Radial Nerve Supporting Below.

Some of the manipulations must be repeated in the series five or six times. In raising the leg, place it, if necessary, on the shoulder, and, bending up and down, stretch the sciatic nerve as much as possible.

Rheumatic neuralgia in other nerves, as in the

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