CONTENTS.
[PREFACE TO THE EIGHTH EDITION.]
[CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY]
[CHAPTER II. GAIN OR LOSS OF WEIGHT CLINICALLY CONSIDERED]
[CHAPTER III. ON THE SELECTION OF CASES FOR TREATMENT]
[CHAPTER IV. SECLUSION]
[CHAPTER V. REST]
[CHAPTER VI. MASSAGE]
[CHAPTER VII. ELECTRICITY]
[CHAPTER VIII. DIETETICS AND THERAPEUTICS]
[CHAPTER IX. DIETETICS AND THERAPEUTICS—(Continued)]
[CHAPTER X. THE TREATMENT OF LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA, ATAXIC PARAPLEGIA, SPASTIC PARALYSIS, AND PARALYSIS AGITANS]
[INDEX.]
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY.
For some years I have been using with success, in private and in hospital practice, certain methods of renewing the vitality of feeble people by a combination of entire rest and excessive feeding, made possible by passive exercise obtained through the steady use of massage and electricity.
The cases thus treated have been chiefly women of a class well known to every physician,—nervous women, who, as a rule, are thin and lack blood. Most of them have been such as had passed through many hands and been treated in turn for gastric, spinal, or uterine troubles, but who remained at the end as at the beginning, invalids, unable to attend to the duties of life, and sources alike of discomfort to themselves and anxiety to others.