Prescriptions of special exercises for the muscle-masses particularly involved in each instance must be given, remembering that contraction of the affected muscles will to a certain degree overcome their rigidity even at first, and to a still greater extent as the patient reacquires voluntary control.
INDEX.
Acne, caused by massage, 89.
After-treatment, importance of, 79, 195.
Albuminuria, from exercise, 101.
Alcoholism producing fat, 23.
American race peculiarities, 17, 21, 32.
Anaemia.

_Vide_ Cases.
blood-count in, 102.
diagnosis of, 104.
effects of massage in, 101.
fatigue in, 72.
Anaemic obesity, 24, 128.
Asthenia.

_Vide_ Cases.
Asthenopia, 67, 145, 149.
Ataxia.

_Vide_ Cases.
bathing in, 204, 212.
co-ordinate movements in, 204.
symptoms of, 197.
treatment of, 197.
Bathing, effects of, 67.
in ataxia, 204, 212.
Birth-palsy.

_Vide_ Cases.
Bleeding, causing increase of fat, 24.
Blood changes from massage, 99, 101, 185.
Bowditch on weight at different ages, 17, 23.
Bright's disease, a contraindication, 45.
Brown-Sequard's elixir, 212.
Brunton on effects of massage, 101.
Cases: albuminuria, 183.
amenorrhoea, 149, 193.
anaemia, extreme, 184.
aortic stenosis, 187.
asthenia, 111, 172, 182.
ataxia, 216, 218, 220.
birth-palsy, 226.
chloral habit, 150, 154, 174, 178.
hysteria, 76, 114, 154, 157, 160, 165, 181.
hysteria and neurasthenia, 112.
hystero-epilepsy, 165.
kidney, floating, 191.
morphia habit, 154, 165.
neurasthenia, 144, 171, 174.
neurasthenia and pulmonary disease, 149, 160.
obesity, anaemic, 132, 134.
paralysis, hysterical, 134, 150.
paraplegia, ataxic, 223.
paraplegia, spastic, 228.
tabes.