Dr. G. Zander's Medico-Mechanical Gymnastics; Its Method, Importance, and Application (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. 1893 Excerpt: ...to the Zander method, the indications of which are more extensive than those of Oertel's method. The patients who are no longer permitted to use Oertel's cures, may still frequently, with advantage and without fear, use Zander's apparatus. It even often happens that Zander's method enables them to attempt again the indisputable pleasures of the mountain-cure. While Zander's method is blamed for its length of treatment, there is also every reason to recognise the advantage of less danger. Zander's mechanical gymnastics can be used at any time, while, for the mountain 1 Mittheilungen aus dem Grossherzogl. Friedrichsbade in Baden-Baden. Karlsruhe 1889 p. 9. 2 We cannot help mentioning with respect to this, Dr. Zander's expressions, when we were discussing this opinion. This view of the matter, he said seems strange. One of the methods (gymnastics) can be used in all cases and has manifested itself/ree from all danger; the other (oertel's cure) is absolutely impossible in many cases, and has more than once shown itself dangerous; therefore I question how one can say, with HeiliGenthal, that the truth, regarding the superiority of the two methods, would not be found on either side, but in a middle course, that is, in a method that would certainly be less dangerous than the latter, but also less practicable than the former. cure, a suitable 1 season must be awaited, if, owing to the circumstances, it is necessary to undertake long, fatiguing and expensive journeys to -sanatoriums- in mountainous countries. The medical gymnastic Institute of Friedrichsbad sometimes receives patients suffering from diseases of the heart who are unable to walk the distance from their dwelling to the Institute, and it would indeed be perilous to prescribe mountain-climbing ...