Vibratory therapeutics.--The application of rapid and continuous vibrations to the treatment of certain diseases of the nervous system. 1892.

摘要

THE first tentatives of the method of what I wish to speak to-day: The treatment of certain diseases of the nervous system by mechanical vibrations, go back to 1878, and originated with M. Vigoroux. This physician first watched the effects of mechanical vibrations on a certain number of hysterical patients. An enormous tuning-fork, mounted on a sounding-box, was set in action by means of a bow. Thanks to this agency, Vigoroux succeeded in dispersing the hemianaesthesia and causing the cessation of the contractures almost as rapidly as with the magnet or electric spark.