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ZANDER’S MEDICO-MECHANICAL SYSTEM OF GYMNASTICS. 435
to one-sided development; and it may with reason be affirmed that when people
grow too old for active sport, the Zander or the manual method of gymnastics
offers a substitute for it. This is its sphere of activity in the service of hygiene.
In the province of therapeutics it is employed like manual gymnastics; first
of all, in affections of the heart and in nervous troubles, in which it plays a
specially important part. -In scoliosis it is of the greatest importance; and in
many forms of gastric trouble, such as constipation, no other treatment can be
compared with it. In co-operation with medical therapeutic treatment, it is
of great value in affections of the lungs, in female abdominal complaints, in
hemorrhoids, in general constitutional disorders, such as anæmia, abnormal
obesity, diabetes, etc.
In muscular and articular complaints, whether from traumatic or rheumatic
causes, it is employed with great benefit. Gymnastic treatment is remarkably
suitable after massage treatment, to render the effects of the latter more enduring.
At watering places and hydropathic establishments it has been introduced,
with success, as is universally acknowledged.
In Germany the Zander gymnastics have been widely employed in connection
with accident insurance, where there was need of treating on a large scale the
consequences of bodily injuries caused by accidents met with at work. The
injured workman was certain to be readily discharged from hospital but
incompetent to resume work.
In order to diminish the degree of disablement asylums have been established
for the treatment of injuries by accident, which is gratis. The results have
been splendid: in most places the compensation payable for disablement has
been reduced to about 40 %. Such asylums now exist in many hospitals provided
with the Zander method. In Sweden such compensation for bodily injuries has
not been made compulsory by law until recent times; and the injured persons
obtain, gratis, treatment in a number of gymnastic institutes, where trained
operators are available; and recently special masseurs have been appointed for
this purpose in the majority of the country hospitals in Sweden. In several
Zander-institutes abroad out-patients are received and treated under the
superintendence and control of the physicians. At the great modern institute in
Stockholm, the mother institute for Zander’s gymnastic methods, a large number
of foreign doctors have studied. This, which is now the only one of its kind
in the capital, has, on an average, been attended by 300—600 patients annually.
The scheme has called forth an abundant literature, not only from the pens of
Dr G. Zander and Dr E. Zander, but also of Dr A. Levertin; and in Germany
those of Doctors H. Nebel and Hasebroeck in Hamburg, Professor G. Schutz
in Berlin, etc. In 1911, under the editorship of Professor I. Riidinger of
Wurzburg, a memoir was published in the "orthopedic archives", in honour of
Dr G. Zander’s seventy-fifth birthday, and in it a large number of his pupils
and other doctors who employ his methods subscribed 25 different articles, in
which the great work he has accomplished in the service of suffering was
unanimously commended and acknowledged.
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