Identifier: osteopathycomple00elme (find matches)
Title: Osteopathy Complete
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Elmer De Vergne Barber
Subjects: Osteopathic Medicine
Publisher: Press of Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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er the ribsimmediately over the spleen; with the left hand drawpatients left arm above the head, at the same instant, with —15— 226 OSTEOPATHY COMPLETE. the right hand, raising the ribs as much as possible from thespleen. This treatment usually gives immediate relief. 2. Place the hand lightly over the spleen, and vibrate(pages 36 and 67) or five minutes. Treatment should be given every other day. FLOATING SPLEEN. (Mobility of the organ, due to relaxation of its attachments.) SYMPTOMS. The absence of the organ from its usual position. Thepresence of a solid body in an unusual position. TREATMENT. 1. A thorough Treatment to Equalize the Circulation(page 114) will nourish and strengthen the attachments ofthe spleen, thereby enabling them to hold the organ in place. 2. After each treatment for the circulation, the opera-tor should endeavor, by any manipulation which seems mostsuitable to the case, to move the organ toward its normalposition. Treatment should be given everv other dav.
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Cut 27.—Raising the Eighth Rib. TEE KIDNEYS. 229 Diseases of the Kidneys. THE KIDNEYS. The kidneys are two in number, situated in tlie backpart of the abdomen, and are for the purpose of separatingfrom the blood materials which, when dissolved in a quantityof water, also separated by the kidneys from the blood, con-stitute the urine. They are situated one on each side of the vertebralcolumn, behind the peritoneum, surrounded by a mass of fatand loose areolar tissue. Their upper extremity is on a level with the upperborder of the last dorsal vertebra, and their lower extremityis on a level with the third lumbar. The right kidney isusually a little lower than the left, probably on account ofthe vicinity of the liver. The kidney is flattened, and presents, at one part ofits circumference, a hollow. It is larger at its upper thanat its lower extremity. Each kidney is about four inches in length, two to twoand a half in breadth, and a little more than one inch inthickness. The right is s

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