The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-12-09
Amounting the Body.

In DR.. Angels work in the Medical
Record he says: Effective amounting
must always and inevitably consume a
certain amount of time which will cause
hesitation on the part of patients of in
dustrious habits who are not too i'll to
move about and attend to business. The
only way to obviate in any considerable
degree this impeachment in the way OF
popularizing hygienic Injunction is to
make the process so agreeable that it
will be found an enjoyment instead of a
hardship. To accomplish this two things
are necessary. These are, first, salts
factory unguent, andsecond,a competent
anointer. A satisfactory unguent must
be pleasant or at least inoffensive to the
smell; it must not be either gummy or
sticky, and it must leave no trace of oil
upon the skin after the conclusion of the
process. 1t should also possess proper
ties which will prevent its decomposi-
ton by the warmth of the body, that it
may not, like most unguents, become
rancid. The second requisite, a good
anOinter, is even more essential and
more difficult to secure. DR.. Taylor re-
marks especially upon the trouble he
experienced in finding persons strong
enough and patient enough to apply his
hard ointment successfully, and when,
besides strength and patience, we re-
quire skill enough to make the process
a pleasure we shall not be surprised if
we find competent anointers few and
far between. Men who are properly
trained as rubbers or shampooers in the
best bathing establishments are best
calculated to supply this want, and to
them we may look, not in vain, for COM
petent anointers. Their labor alone in
friction and manipulation often serves
an important remedial purpose in
rheumatism, paralysis, and other
diseases, and when to the advantages
of dry rubbing the benefits of a proper
unguent are added it is plain that a
hvgienic combination of no small eff
cacy is formed. Some attribute the
benefits of the amounting mainly to the
oil, and others mainly to the rubbing.
The truth is both play an important
part, and each assists the other. With
out rubbing the unguent would neces-
sarily be imperfectly absorbed, and
much of its possible effectiveness would
consequently be lost; the pores would
be covered, the clothing smeared, and
the patient disguised. Without lubri-
eating thorough searching manipulation
is rendered practically impossible from
the tendency of dry rubbing to chafe,
excoriate, and irritate the skin to an ex-
tent often that proves a source of tor
ture. That the rubbing in of the oint-
ment is highly beneficial part of the
process of Injunction, and that its skillful
performance is essential to the highest
success of that process, have no doubt;
but | am equally certain that in many
cases it is the oil directly that accom-
plishes the greater part of the resulting
benefit. An objection which is some
times brought against Injunction de-
serves brief mention. This is the argu-
ment that the process must choke the
pores, and thus impede the functional
activity of the skin-certainly a very I'M
desirable result. DIR. Taylor and others
who have practised Injunction largely
have observed no evidence of such