Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-08-31
Another New System Of Medicine.
Correspondence of Tho Tribune.

Correspondence of The Tribune.
LONDON, Thursday, July Is, 1850.
A subject which is now being much talked
of here as piece of Progress, is the new
system of Mechanical or Motor Medicine,
called pinesipdthJ or The Cure Of Diseases by
,Specifc .4ctiue and Passive Movements. II has
been practiced for 40 years in Stockholm.
and is this year, for the first time, becoming
prominent in England. There is a good
pamphlet on it under the above title, hy
Georgu. The method consists in applying
external motions, passive and active exercise,
&c. to the body; aud in rendering these so
special, that you can operate on the various
inward organs, or OH parts of these specif-
cally. Friction, posture, percussion, motion
are all made use of; and the science has so
far advanced, tha: already us many as u thou
sand different movements have been devised
for the purpose of moving and jogging the
failing parts and powers within. There are
thus languages of nudges to remind brain,
liver, spleen aud all Of their neglected dn-
ties. The effects produced approve the plan,
and stamp It as an art and science. II is ex-
ercise, contact, admonition pursued into de-
tails, whereby disease is literally for the first
time handled. One important general truth
which accrues from IL is, that operations from
without are propaguted inward, and that by
scientific knowledge, you can send in mes
sages TO particular parts, which are received
and heard just where they are wanted, aud
nowhere else. This practice recognizes mo-
ton for the first timo as an important ele-
ment in the living frame, and throws the
chemical and molecular views, which are
dead and chaotic, into the background,
bringing forward the physical and mechani-
cal, which are large enough TO be living; and
founding upon them n method of curation.-
1t is remarkable ,hat His laying hold of the
mobility of the frame comes also from "A
Swede, Ling, the Poet just rs the demon
stration that the body lives in motion, and
that the Lungs give that motion, was the gain
of another Swede, viz: Swendenhorg, and
indeed formed the main truth of his physio-
/ logical perceptions. The latter regard as
! the greatest principle of intelligence which
has yet been put into the body; perhaps the
! former may turn out TO be one OF the most
vital of the Curative Arts.
Certainly the homeopathic consideration
of the subject leads TO this conclusion, for
I perhaps there is no disease but leads in some
way TO alter the beuring, posture or general
status of the body. In acute cases this il
plain. We groan, wrihe, wriggle, vince
suuNej cIlNl, creep, udilce, anu SO lOrlll, VIII
our ngones and discomiorts, showing thai
disease is complete posturc-master aud q
very good sergeant, whose drill, however, j.
for the purposes of relief and cure. Now
this proves, moreover, that very small area.
of disease hive corresponding 10 them large
movements in the general system; and thn
1 five understood the movements, we could
by reaction, play upon the parts and particles
of the inward organs. For if special wincC
or twist of the frame comes ont of some one
place, then by mastering the twist, and pro
ducing it nrtilicially, we should get at tha
place exactly, if even il were no bigger thar
a pins head. Now here is way Of precise
gunnery-of hitting disease with precision
Again we know that there nre instructive
movements of the hands toward afflicted
parts ofour frames. We rub ourselves will
an infinite organic pity like dumb animal,
where the deep flesh is i'll. This is natlr
in us working for us, and showing us ia,
: beginning OF an immense art of soothing
traction, nudging &c. The detailed follow
ing out of il constitutes Pinesipatly.
Yours, &c. J.J.G G. w.