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caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: osteopathycomple00elme (find matches) Title: Osteopathy Complete Year: 1898 (1890s) Authors: Elmer De Vergne Barber Subjects: Osteopathic Medicine Publisher: Press of Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Co. Contributing Library: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine Library Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: st dorsal, move the muscles upward and outward verydeep through the lumbar and sacral regions. 3. Place both hands on the same side of the spine;beginning at the first lumbar, move the muscles slightlyupward and strongly outv\ard, permitting the muscles toslip under the hand, through the lumbar and sacral regions.Treat the opposite side in a similar manner. 4. With the patient lying in the same position, theoperator removing his left shoe, places his left foot upon thesacrum, the right between the limbs of the patient; graspthe patients ankles, and, while pressing hard with thefoot upon the sacrum, draw the limbs slowly but stronglyupward as high as the patient can stand without much pain(cut 45). The spinal erection center lies in the lumbar region, andthe motor nerves for the deep artery of the penis arise fromthe first to the third sacral nerves, while the motor nervesfor the ischio-cavernosus and the deep transverse perinealmuscles arise from the third to the fourth sacral nerves. Text Appearing After Image: Cut 45.—Impotency DISEASES OF THE yERYOUS SYSTEM. 387 The spinal ejaculation center lies at the fourth lumbarvertebra, and the motor fibers for the bulbo-cavernosus mus-cle, which ejects the semen from the bulb of the urethra,lie in the third and fourth sacral nerves. The above treatment, therefore, stimulates these centers,and frees the action of these nerves, permitting them to perform their functions. 5. Place the patient on his side with the limbs flexed;dip the finger in vaseline, ijassing it carefully up the rectum;manipulate gently but thoroughly the prostate gland, whichwill usually be found enlarged, thus obstructing the escapeof the semen from the ejaculatory ducts. 6. It is always advisable to manipulate thoroughly thepenis and testicles, giving strong extension to these parts. Treatment should be given every other day, and rarelyfails to effect a cure in from four to twelve weeks. Impotency caused by excesses and syphilitic affections isoften benefited, and sometimes cur Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Osteopathy is a type of alternative medicine that emphasizes physical manipulation of muscle tissue and bones. Practitioners of osteopathy are referred to as osteopaths. Its name derives from Ancient Greek "bone" and "sensitive to" or "responding to".
  Osteopathic manipulation is the core set of techniques in osteopathy. Parts of osteopathy, such as craniosacral therapy, have no therapeutic value and have been labeled as pseudoscience. The techniques are based on an ideology created by Andrew Taylor Still which posits the existence of a "myofascial continuity"—a tissue layer that "links every part of the body with every other part". Osteopaths attempt to diagnose and treat what was originally called "the osteopathic lesion", but which is now named "somatic dysfunction", by manipulating a person's bones and muscles. OMT techniques are most commonly used to treat back pain and other musculoskeletal issues.
  In the United States, the 21st century training of osteopathic physicians is equivalent to that of Doctor of Medicine physicians.
context_section_description: Osteopathy is a type of alternative medicine that emphasizes physical manipulation of muscle tissue and bones. Practitioners of osteopathy are referred to as osteopaths. Its name derives from Ancient Greek "bone" (ὀστέον) and "sensitive to" or "responding to" (-πάθεια).
  Osteopathic manipulation is the core set of techniques in osteopathy. Parts of osteopathy, such as craniosacral therapy, have no therapeutic value and have been labeled as pseudoscience. The techniques are based on an ideology created by Andrew Taylor Still (1828–1917) which posits the existence of a "myofascial continuity"—a tissue layer that "links every part of the body with every other part". Osteopaths attempt to diagnose and treat what was originally called "the osteopathic lesion", but which is now named "somatic dysfunction", by manipulating a person's bones and muscles. OMT techniques are most commonly used to treat back pain and other musculoskeletal issues.
  In the United States, the 21st century training of osteopathic physicians (who practice osteopathic medicine, not osteopathy) is equivalent to that of Doctor of Medicine (MD) physicians.  While osteopathic manipulation is still included in the curricula of osteopathic physicians, and is promoted as a unique aspect of DO (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine) training, this has been described as nothing more than "'extra' training in pseudoscientific practices". Osteopathic medical schools have been criticized as weaker in research than MD schools with regard to research and the understanding of scientific inquiry. In the US, graduates of osteopathic medical schools have the option to sit for both the osteopathic physician-specific COMLEX medical licensing exam and the general USMLE licensing exam.
caption: OMT technique for the treatment of impotence in the 1898 Osteopathy Complete manual
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