Our home physician: a new and popular guide to the art of preserving health and treating disease; with plain advice for all the medical and surgical emergencies of the family . OPERATIONS OF THE MOVEMENT CURE. AND MOST RECENT METHODS OF TREATMENT. 723 Strictly speaking, all muscular exercise—walking, running,riding, jumping, skating, riding velocipedes—is a part of the move-ment cure. In our establishments, which are, or should be, con-ducted by experienced hands, the movements are carefully elaboratedand systematized by the aid of machinery and various short, the movements are
Our home physician: a new and popular guide to the art of preserving health and treating disease; with plain advice for all the medical and surgical emergencies of the family . OPERATIONS OF THE MOVEMENT CURE. AND MOST RECENT METHODS OF TREATMENT. 723 Strictly speaking, all muscular exercise—walking, running,riding, jumping, skating, riding velocipedes—is a part of the move-ment cure. In our establishments, which are, or should be, con-ducted by experienced hands, the movements are carefully elaboratedand systematized by the aid of machinery and various short, the movements are simply exercise refined and sys-tematized. They exercise portions of the body, especially of theinternal organs, that are little affected by ordinary activity. Hencetheir great benefit in many cases of chronic disease of these internalorgans, especially of the abdomen. General electrization and the movements both cause manymuscular contractions, and in this way increase the processes ofwaste and repair in the system. Both are useful in dyspepsia,hypochondria, constipation, paralysis, and nervous exhaustion andother conditions of debility. EXERCISES OF THE MOVEMENT
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