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A System of Physiologic Therapeutics V.8, 1903
A System of Physiologic Therapeutics V8 1903 Author:Unknown Author 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: CHAPTER III REST IN NEURASTHENIA AND ALLIED STATES Physiologic Rest. Therapeutic Rest. The General Application of Rest: Degrees of Rest; Exercise and Food. T... more »he Special Applications of Rest: Partial Rest Method—Division of Time; Bathing; Massage; Modification of Routine. Absolute Rest Method—Importance of Details; Isolation; Nursing; Adjuvants—Feeding, Bathing, Massage, Electricity, Medicines; Treatment of Special Symptoms; Return to Home. Historical Data—Whyte; Bouchut; Beard; Weir Mitchell. Rest in Neurasthenia Terminalis. Rest in the Neurasthenia of Middle Life. Rest in the Neurasthenia of Old Age. The Neuras- thenoid Stales. Neurasthenia Symptomatica. We have considered the changes—chemical, morphologic, and physical—that take place in normal fatigue, and we have seen how, in the intervals between the periods of activity, restitution takes place. In fatigue, for instance, there is, among other things, loss of substance, and during rest this loss is regained. The relation of rest to normal fatigue is quite clear; but this is not the case when the fatigue is pathologic, as we find it to be in neurasthenia. Here physiologic rest no longer suffices to bring about a return to the normal condition, and we are at once confronted with the problem of applying rest as a therapeutic measure. How and to what degree shall it be applied? As we shall presently see, rest is a powerful agent, and yet when inappropriately applied, may fail of its object. REST AS A THERAPEUTIC MEASURE Elimination of the Causal Factors of Chronic Fatigue The first practical step toward a successful result in a given case is a careful study to determine the factors at work in producing the fatigue symptoms. If the case be one of simple and uncom- RELATIVE REST 35 plicated neurasthenia, it will ge...« less