Industrial medicine and surgery . ysiotherapyand they will more than ever before depend on these methods ascure-alls for every condition. Quacks will take advantage of this TREATMENT OF INJURIES 553 to extend their profiteering on the human credulity. In order toprevent this, surgeons must standardize these methods and applythem in every case where they can hasten or assist recovery. Several industrial surgical dispensaries have already adopted thesemethods. A qualified masseur is employed on the medical staff togive massage under the direction of the surgeon. Arm baths and legbaths have been
Industrial medicine and surgery . ysiotherapyand they will more than ever before depend on these methods ascure-alls for every condition. Quacks will take advantage of this TREATMENT OF INJURIES 553 to extend their profiteering on the human credulity. In order toprevent this, surgeons must standardize these methods and applythem in every case where they can hasten or assist recovery. Several industrial surgical dispensaries have already adopted thesemethods. A qualified masseur is employed on the medical staff togive massage under the direction of the surgeon. Arm baths and legbaths have been added to the equipment of the dispensary wherehot and cold hydrotherapy can be administered when advocates the whirlpool bath in all cases of painful stumps,painful scar tissues, partial paralysis, injuries to nerves and to anycondition which lowers the circulation and nutrition of the part. The arm or leg is thrust into a vessel containing water at atemperature varying from 105 up to 115 degrees. This water is. Fig. 89.—Adjustable electric cabinets suitablefor local heat bath. (Burdick.) Fig. 90.—Same as Fig. 89. circulated by means of jets set at an angle or by a propeller. Airis also introduced, so that the limb is immersed in a swirling, bubblingcurrent. In this way the part is flushed with blood, and the full effectof heat is obtained in a way that is impossible if the water is author has recently used radiant light and heat in the treat-ment of strains, backaches, muscle pains and other conditions ofobscure origin but undoubtedly having a neurotic basis. Such casesreport to the .doctors office frequently and continue to report fordays and weeks complaining of the pain which does not yield to theordinary methods. If such patients receive proper attention the firstday they report and are put in the rest room and given a course oftreatment with the radiant heat followed by massage, the conditionis usually cured at once, or within two or three
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