Papers on the therapeutic value of localized movements / by Chas. Fayette Taylor and Wm. R. Fisher.

  • Taylor, Charles Fayette, 1827-1899.
Date:
1871
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Credit: Papers on the therapeutic value of localized movements / by Chas. Fayette Taylor and Wm. R. Fisher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IS THERE ANY THERAPEUTIC VALUE IN THE SO-CALLED LOCALIZED MOVEMENTS? BY CHARLES FAYETTE TAYLOR, M.D. Mr. President,— Some, perhaps most, of the gentlemen present may be aware that several years ago I devoted much attention to, and wrote several papers upon, the subject of the curing of disease by a kind of exercise or movements. Now that it is generally known that I am devoting my attention wholly to orthopedic practice, I am often asked what my views are in regard to the therapeutic value of the so-called localized movements. Although for the last half-dozen years I have been endeavoring to withdraw my attention almost entirely from the class of cases which indicate this treatment, I have still been obliged to take and to treat numbers of the most characteristic of these cases; so that I have continued to have experience in the matter, of such a nature as enables me to pronounce a positive opinion as to the value of the treatment under consideration. I have been accustomed to use the term localized move- ments as being more pertinent and expressive than any * Read (by request) before the New York Medical Journal Association, May 20, 1870.