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Title: Mechanical vibratory stimulation : its theory and application in the treatment of disease
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Pilgrim, Maurice F. (Maurice Fiescher), 1885-1903
Subjects: Vibration Vibration
Publisher: New York : Lawrence
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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ess andgreat efficiency. With the rubber brushattachments deeply pressed over the glands,there is thus supplied the external pres-sure declared by Dr. Kirke (quoted above)to be the proper method for accelerat-ing the flow through these organs. It isuseless to attempt the cure of local inflam-mations, or the resolution of adventitiousgrowths, without at the same time providingfor prompt and adequate drainage and thedischarge of the detritus through stimulationof the lymphatics. Efficient as mechanical-vibratory stimulation unquestionably is in allsuch forms of disease, even with it satisfac-tory results are absolutely out of the ques-tion unless treatment is also applied to thecontiguous lymphatics and glands. If thelives of cancer-affected patients are to besaved, at the same time that the local manifes-tations of the disease are being destroyed, itcan only be accomplished through energizingthe natural action of these important organs.The lymphatics are not organs that can be Plate V.
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Lvmttirglands. Sacral glands* \ Internaliliac glands Erternaliliac glands. Deepinijitinaiglands Diagram showing the lymphatics which drain the kidneysand pelvic organs. (Drainage through the kidneys and pelvic organs is increased bythe application of vibratory stimulation to the lymphatics of theseareas, as shown in above diagram.) THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM 43 very readily over - stimulated. Experiencejustifies the assertion that little fear need beentertained that (within reasonable limits, ofcourse) too much stimulation may be appliedto them when contiguous tissues are affectedby morbid or malignant growths. It is tobe hoped, therefore, that no practitioner willever consider that he has made a fair trial ofthe merits of this method of treatment in theclass of cases now being considered, if stimu-lation of the lymphatics has been omittedfrom his technique. This chapter ought not to be concludedwithout a brief consideration of the processknown as metastasis. That it is of frequentoccurrenc

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