RECAPITULATION.
Motion, properly transmitted to the human system by mechanical apparatus, is transformed into other forms of force identical with vital energy, by which the ordinary processes of the system are greatly promoted.
It increases animal heat and nervous and muscular power to the normal standard.
It removes engorgement or local impediments to the circulation.
The electrical induction produced, renders it a most efficacious remedy for paralysis of all kinds.
It removes interstitial fluids and causes rapid absorption and disappearance of solid and fluid accumulations.
It is a powerful alterative, or blood-purifier, increasing oxidation and stimulating excretion.
It diminishes chronic nervous irritability and promotes sleep.
It hardens the flesh by increasing muscular development and improves digestion and nutrition.
ANIMAL JUICES, OR EXTRACTS.
The use of animal, nerve and gland extracts has proven of surprising efficiency in the treatment of paralysis and locomotor ataxia. They furnish a pabulum in concentrated form for the nourishment and restoration of the weakened nerve cells and fibres.
In the vast majority of cases, we have been able, by the use of these recently discovered curative agents, when assisted by other means at our command at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, to arrest the progress of these nervous affections, hitherto so generally considered incurable, and bring about restoration of the paralysed functions and a renewal of lost power.
These comparatively new remedial agents have been very thoroughly tested by us. Their merits are more fully considered in a preceding chapter of this treatise, under the head of treatment for Nervous Exhaustion, or Debility.