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The Massachusetts eclectic medical journal . ies and forminternal congestions, not only of the pelvic but of other can scarcely expect the radical cure of uterine dis-eases in which congestion is a prominent feature without con-necting such of these difficulties as may exist, and they willusually find them all if looked for. It will be observed that although the difficulties I have enum-erated profoundly disturb the physical processes vital and ip8 Massachusetts Eclectic Medical yournal. chemical, they are themselves mechanical and are amenablelargely to mechanical treatment. Properly directed measures ofthis sort greatly favor the success of whatever local applicationsmay be deemed necessary. The annexed cut illustrates an exercise which I have pre-scribed with excellent results during many years for the removalof those physio-mechanical conditions that I believe to be thechief predisposing causes of uterine diseases, and that moreoverpowerfully oppose the influence of the best directed local treat-ment. /fx-\. The apparatus required is very simple. A stout iron hookmust be screwed into the ceiling which supports a trapeze, thewooden bar of which is adjusted to hang horizontally about sixinches above the patients head. A leather strap is nailed to the Massachusetts Eclectic Medical Journal. ipp floor directly below the hook, the toes are to be placed under thisto keep them from slipping about while exercising. The exercise is taken by grasping the bar and without bendingthe knees describe a circle with the arms and upper part of thebody as shown in the cut. From two to five minutes twice a dayis usually enough. The effects of this exercise are to expand the chest, increasethe elasticity of its walls, to elevate the abdominal and pelviccontents, to increase the depth and freedom of respiration, andafter a time to cause the respiratory vibrations to be communi-cated to the uterus and its appendages ; thus directly and power-fully favoring an equable
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