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there during the summer, when the Institution is closed, or at
any rate have stayed there too short a time to learn anything.
Let me also state, that part of what I describe, i.e. most of
the shakings, nearly all the vibrations and the nerve vibrations,
are not part of Ling’s original system, but have been added by my
brother, Mr. Henrik Kellgren, who was a pupil under Ling junior.
It is hardly necessary to add, that we who advocate Ling’s
system such as he taught it, do not use any machines for
producing the movements. We certainly have apparatus, if I may
so call it, on or beside which the patient may take up certain
positions which enable us to give the exercises where we wish,
and as we wish. Machines cannot possibly do the work of
the human hand, which has the brain controlling it. If the
machine could feel and think, it might be otherwise. The
condition of the patient varies from day to day, and so must the
treatment. This can be readily done when we use our hands,
but not when machines are employed. Professor Branting,
the greatest of all the pupils of Ling senior, speaking of the
machines, said, “De representera hedendomen i gymnastiken”—
“they represent the heathen times of the treatment.” I readily,
admit it is more comfortable to do the work with the machines,
but as the patient should be our first consideration, I have no
hesitation in saying that no machines will produce results
comparable with manual exercises properly applied.
It is generally considered that the manual treatment is quite
inapplicable for acute inflammation of the joints and other
parts. This commonly entertained belief is a complete mistake.
Certainly, if we rely only on the ordinary massage movements
in these acute conditions, we can do little good, and probably
will do harm; but in vibrations and nerve frictions, we possess
a strong weapon with which to combat these acute diseases.
The difficulty lies in the application of these vibrations, for
if they are given with an unskilled hand, the effect is frequently
not beneficial; but this fact can scarcely be quoted as an
argument against their use, or the treatment itself. Amongst the
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