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Title: Osteopathic first aids to the sick : written for the sick people
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Feidler, Francis John
Subjects: Osteopathic medicine Osteopathic Medicine
Publisher: New York : Broadway Publishing
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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streatment every night. Constipation or otherdiseases must be cured also. Avoid experiments at coitus for two months.Stop the masturbation at once. Dont be a slave.Be a man. Avoid all sensual reading, sights orthoughts. Be busy physically and mentally atlabor. Avoid all stimulants, liquors, tobacco orrich food. Bathe the parts with cold water eachnight, jast before retiring. One cr few months treatment will effect a cureand restore manly vigor. DISEASES OF MEN—ENLARGED PROS-TATE. STRICTURE.This condition is always cured by osteopaths,by a local treatment of the prostate gland throughthe rectum. But as this treatment requires skill,and may cause injury to the patient at the handsof the inexperienced, we, therefore, shall notgive it, but advise the patient to go to an osteo-path as soon as possible. DISEASES OF MEN—VARICOCELE. OR-CHITIS.In both these conditions there is an obstruc-tion to the flow of the venous blood, causing adilatation of the veins, or enlargement of thetesticles.
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FIGURE 80.OSTEOPATHIC MUSTARD PLASTER FOR THE CHEST.Place both hands flat upon the patients chest, then with a cir-cular motion, using some pressure, work the tissues between theskin and the bones for a minute or two. The hands must notsliu on the skin. THE HOUSEHOLD OSTEOPATH 203 The cure is affected by removing the obstruc-tion to the venous flow, stimulating the nerves,and directing an extra amount of arterial bloodto strengthen and build up the parts. Constipation or other ailments must be curedalso. Avoid everything sensual. Coitus is pro-hibited for two or three months. Do not useany stimulants, liquors, tobacco or rich spicy food. Bathe the parts with hot water each night, justbefore retiring. Gradually dispense with thesuspensatories. Three times a week give a general spinal treat-ment, fig. 37, with special attention to the lowerpart of the spine. Knead and stretch the lowerabdomen, fig. 53, gradually increasing the pres-sure as the patient can bear it. Stretch with anupward

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