Osteopathy Complete . er is often benefited by this methodof treatment, which will occupy about fifteen minutes, andshould be given every other day. LOCAL ASPHYXIA, SYMMETRICAL GANGRENE, OR RAY-NAUDS DISEASE. (A vaso-motor and vascular affection of the limbs, character-ized by tonic contraction of the coats of the blood-vessels, followed by local asphyxia and gangrene.) SYMPTOMS. Similar to those of Frost-bite; fingers on both sidesbecome pale, numb, and cold; its onset may be marked bythe presence of blood in the urine. TREATMENT. This disease is often benefited and sometimes cured in itsearl
Osteopathy Complete . er is often benefited by this methodof treatment, which will occupy about fifteen minutes, andshould be given every other day. LOCAL ASPHYXIA, SYMMETRICAL GANGRENE, OR RAY-NAUDS DISEASE. (A vaso-motor and vascular affection of the limbs, character-ized by tonic contraction of the coats of the blood-vessels, followed by local asphyxia and gangrene.) SYMPTOMS. Similar to those of Frost-bite; fingers on both sidesbecome pale, numb, and cold; its onset may be marked bythe presence of blood in the urine. TREATMENT. This disease is often benefited and sometimes cured in itsearly stages by a Greneral Treatment (page 300). Treatmentshould be given everv other dav. WRITERS CRAMP. (Painful cramping of the fingers while attempting to to long-continued movements in a strained posi-tion, involving the muscles of the arm and hand.) SY^MPTOMS. Act of writing becomes slow and labored; fingers andhands ache from weariness; spasm increases in intensity;writing finally impossible; tremor Cut 41.—Raising the Clavicle. —24- Cut 42.—Brachial Plexus. DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. 375 TREATMENT. 1. Place the patient upon a stool; with the thumb ofthe left hand close to the spine, upon the right side, abovethe first dorsal vertebra, with the right hand draw patientsright arm high above the head, pressing upward with thethumb as the arm is lowered with a backward motion (cut43); move the thumb down to the next lower dorsal; raisethe arm as before, and repeat until the fifth dorsal is reached. 2. Place the hand upon the top of the patients head,the left thumb upon the right side of the spine at the seventhcervical; press the head downward as far as possible, ro-tating it slowly but strongly to the left; rotate and raiseslowly to its normal position, with the thumb pressing hard,moving the muscles outward from the spine; place the thumbupon the next ujjper cervical; rotate the head as before, andrepeat until the first cervical is reached. Treat th
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