Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1901 — Massage for Dyspepsia. [ARTICLE]

Massage for Dyspepsia.

A French medical journal cities a number of cases where great and lasting benefits were derived by people suffering from dyspepsia and abdominal diseases from a gentle massage treatment of the abdomen, says Leslie’s Weekly. One case mentioned is that of a young man aged 20 years, who for six months had been suffering with his stomach. In spite of varied treatment he was gradually growing worse and looked like one in the last stages of phthisis. He suffered from constipation and insomnia; he was very nervous and was convinced that he was about to die. After Instituting the abdominal massage his condition rapidly improved; his abdomen, which had resembled that of a child with meningitis, became supple and daily enlarged. The treatment was not severe nor very special. His pain disappeared, and he was able to digest all that was given to him. The patient gained in six months about sixty-five pounds, which be has not lost since that time, now five years ago.