Douglas Graham

Massage and Movements in Hemiplegia

result; for the patient is apt to give us all the credit, though we may be modestly and silently loth to accept much of it. The benefits that may result from massage or any other remedial measure in disturbances arising from morbid changes in the central nervous system, or in any part of the body, will depend more 011 the nature of these changes than 011 the merits of the treatment, however appropriately and skilfully it may be employed. So many variations are seen in the course of paralyses of so-called organic origin, that the influence of massage in modifying these is difficult to determine, even if it were judicious to make use of this