The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-09-28

tho spine, beginning at base of the
skull and going to end of spine. This.
he said was to free the course of all
the nerves as they emanate from the
spinal column Then he took the left
arm and rotated the muscles of same
deeply--clear to the bone--from the
shoulder to the hand. Then taking him
by the elbow and shoulder blade. twist
ed his arm and shoulder around sew
cral times I'm each direction. This
was to free the circulation and nerve
force of the whole arm. Then he had
the patient lie on the other side and
repeated the same procedure upon the
opposite side of spine, arm and
shoulder.
Next he had the patient turn and
lie face downward with either arm
over the sides of the table.
For a condition like his" said the
doctor" we want to stimulate the
kidneys, liver and spleen. We do this
in two ways-through the nervous
connections to those organs, and by
direct mechanical vibration over the
organs themselves. Now word as to
their nervous connections so that
you'll understand why we treat where
we do and as we do along the spine
i'm this case.
THE liver gets its principal nerve
force from the left vagus and Coeliac
pleNus. The Vagus. or pncumogastriC,
We reach i'm the side of the neck, when
the patient is lying OH the back. The
coeliac plcXus IL direct continuation
of the solar ploxus, and also receives
branches from the lesser splanchniC
and gives off hepatic pleXus to liver
and receives left vagus and right
phrenic. The solar pleXus is large
nerve Ccntrc-sometimcs called the
abdominal brain'-which supplies all
the Visccra in the abdominal cavity. It
receives a greater part of it's inncrva-
tion from the great splanChniC nerves
on both sides and some hliamcnts from
the right pncumoGastric The great
splanChnic nerves are formed by
branches that leave the spine from the
thoracic GanGiia between the sixth and
tenth dorsal vertebrac. and the lesser
spanchnic between the tenth and
twelfth.
"The kidneys are supplied with
nerves from the renal plexus, from the
solar pleXus. from the semilunar gang
liza and aortic pleXus and lesser
spanchnic.
THE spleen gets the nerve force from
the cocliac plexus and right vagus.
Now Iandois-an authority on
physiology--says Stimulation of the
Nagus dilates the renal vessels, in
creasing the urine and that's what we
want in this case. to assist nature to
eliminate through that exCretory funC-
tion the excess of uric acid which |
found in the urine upon analysis. I
stimulate the vagus. as | said in sides
Of the neck when patient Is on his
back
"Landois also says: stimulation of
inferior CerNiCal and first thoracic
Eanglia contracts the hepatic vessels
and the lobules tof the livcr).' Now we
don't want contraction, we want eX-
pansion-more blood and greater activ-
ity. And since a succession of rapid
movements over a nerve centre stimu-
latos and hard, steady pressure IN
hibts its function, we inhibit through
this region.
All of this. by way Of more 'funda-
mentals Of physiology. which | learned
AT school, | suppose.
The doctor then placed his thumbs
on either side of the spine i'm the lower
part of the neck (patient lying face
doWnWard), and gave a hard. steady
pressure for some little time between
each pair Of Vcrtebrae for a distance
of six or eight inches down the spine.
Then lower down along the spine,
with one thumb on either side. he gave
a rapid succession of upward and out
ward movements for space of about
eight or ten inches. TO stimulate, he
said, the greater and LESSER splanchnic
nerves from the sixth To tenth and the
tenth to twelfth thoracic ganglia.
Then placing one hand lightly over
first one kidney. then the other, and
then over the spleen, he gave for some
little time light, tremulous motion
over each organ. This he called vibra-
tion, which he said frees the minute
capillary circulation within the tissue
Of the organs themselves and stimu-
lates each of the little glands to
greater activity.
He then had the patient turn on his
back, and with the hand on the right
side gave this same treatment (vibra-
tom over the liver.
Then with both hands holding firmly
the muscles and flesh of the thigh, he
rotated the same deeply with a twist
and an upward movement from the
hip to the knee and from the knee TO
the ankle. With one hand upon the
knee and the other grasping the ankle,
he fleXed the thigh upon the abdomen
and gave sideways twist to the whole
limb back and forth several times. so
that when the knee was out the foot
was in, and Vicc-versa, and then
brought the limb out straight with n
sharp jerk several times in abduction
and abduction, as he called it.
This was to free the circulation TO
the extremities. Then going to the pa
TENTS head, he manipulated rapidly
the muscles of the neck, first on one
side, then the other, to free, as he said.
the circulation to and from the head.
Standing then at the end of the table,
with the ends OF the fingers on either
side of patients neck, he gave a yery
rapid succession of peculiarly def
movements which seemed to stretch
the muscles on either side outward
and downward. This, he said, frees
and stimulates the pneumogastric
nerve which passes through the neck
on either side in a sheath directly be-
meath the sternocleido- -mastoid mus
Gle. Here the doctor paused to remark
that when the trunk OF the superior
laryngeal branch of this pneumogas-
trio nerve is pressed upon by, for in
stance, goitre, or an aneurism Of the
upper part of the carotid, we have
a peculiar dry, brassy cough which
can readily be relieved by proper man
ipulation.'
Next he took the patient by the chin
and back OF head and gave the neck
a good strong extenslon--pulling till
IT," body moved slightly ON the table.