Homoeopathic Eye, Ear, and Throat Journal (Volume 9) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PNEUMATIC AND OSCILLATORY MASSAGE OF THE VISUAL AND VOCAL ORGANS. BY WILLIAM R. KING, M. D., Washington, D. C. MUCH has been written during the past few years relating to various forms of massage of the membrana tympani in affections of the organs of hearing, but thus far I have failed to note much matter in our literature pertaining to massage of the eye or the throat. For about two years I have been using this means, at least as an adjuvant, in treating various conditions affecting the eye and its functions, as well as the throat, particularly that part of the latter pertaining to vocalization. On various occasions in the past, it has been my privilege to address this society and the American Institute of Homoeopathy on the general subject of aural massage. With other members I found our late lamented honorary member, Prof. Houghton, of New York, greatly interested in this subject, and I secured quite early the pneumatic masseur for the existence of which he was responsible, viz., the so-called Wappler Pneumophore (see cut). This, as you know, is the electric motor equipped with a "three way pump," viz., a pump which will produce blowing, suction and an alternate blowing and suction, dependent on position of valve plate. On the opposite end of the shaft of this motor can be adjusted a surgical drill and latterly a new massage appliance, termed an Oscillating Masseur. A few months after placing this apparatus in my office I was requested by Dr. Gary, of Baltimore, to visit his office and inspect a machine adapted for massage of, not only the ear, but the eye, and other portions of the anatomy. I later on availed myself of this invitation, and found the Gary machine to be, at that time, a somewhat crude masseur like the Houghton apparatus; that is, its main feature w...