The Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science (Volume 12) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851. Excerpt: ... Om Nodvandighetm af Vetenskaplig Kontroll iifver Gymnastiska Centnd-Institutet, med Sarskildt afseende pa den medico-gymnastiska behandlingen och undervisningen derstddes. Kritisk Framstallning af D. Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Soner. 1851. pp. 103. On the Necessity of Scientific Control over the Gymnastic Central Institute, particularly in reference to the Medico-Gymnastic Plan of Treatment and the Instruction delivered there. A Critical Exposition. By D. The Prevention and Cure of many Chronic Diseases by Movements. By M. Roth, M. D. London: Churchill. 1851. 8vo. pp. 304. A Few Words on Kinesipathy, or Swedish Medical Gymnastics; the Application of Active and Passive Movements to the Cure of Diseases, according to the Method of P. II. Ling. By A. Georqii. London: Bailliere. 1850. 8vo. Kinesipathy, or Medical Gymnastics, for the Cure of Chronic Disease. By H. Doherty. London: Published by the Author. Pamphlet, pp. 24. How strangely constituted is the mind of man Capable, to use the language of Berzelius, --the illustrious fellow-countryman of the authors of the system of which we are about to give a short description, --of " comprehending the greatness of the universe, with all its worlds infinitely continued through unbounded space, of calculating the laws which govern the motions of the heavenly orbs, of subjecting to itself the elements, and of making the powers of nature its servants," yet liable at times to be degraded to the lowest depths of ignorance and folly, to be imposed on by the grossest absurdities, and to embrace as truths the most glaring falsehoods. It is, unfortunately, in the latter and more unfavourable light that the ever busy human intellect is presented to us on the present occasion, exhibiting still another example of welleducated ...