TY - JOUR AU - Grant, David AB - v.- ?ON MASSAGE. David By Grant, Lecturer M.A., M.B., on Materia Medica in the of University Australia. Melbourne, {Continued from page 39.) The effects of physiological have massage been and our amply described, of them is knowledge due to chiefly Yon experiments. do not Mosengeil's to discuss propose them but state minutely, will simply very the effects briefly which myself have These seen. Increased are?(1.) local due to vascularity, from vaso-motor paralysis stimulation of vaso-inhibitory nerves Elevation of local (?); (2.) not temperature, as due, thermometric Mosengeil's careful observations to show, mere from communication the of heat operating hands, but to increased tissue Increased electric change; (3.) and " sensibility of In total contractility; the (4.) case even if massage," it lasted five only or ten decided a sense of minutes, with fatigue subsequent increase of Of the appetite. in change electrical had a contractility remarkable and convincing demonstration in own my person. Yon first tested the Mosengeil of irritability my abdominal muscles with "Watteville a De of about battery sixteen cells, and found it much normal, the full below of strength the battery producing contraction. He scarcely then any the massaged muscles for a few (about and minutes TI - On Massage JF - Edinburgh Medical Journal DA - 1887-08-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/pubmed-central/on-massage-XXTIfPXpnW SP - 119 EP - 124 VL - 33 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -