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NERVE VIBRATIONS. 67
of the fingers on one side, and the last phalanx of the thumb on
the other. We place them on the edges of the trapezius muscle.
A sharp and quick friction is made at the same time as the tips
of the fingers are approximated to that of the thumb. I have
often seen, or rather felt, that new beginners have the habit of
using equal pressure, or they push the fingers into the neck.
On no account should this be done. The primary cause of the
error, as in so many other cases of faulty manipulation, lies in
the stiffness in the fingers and hands. This only gives pain
which is very unnecessary, instead of producing the symptom
of correct application, i.e. a cold feeHng running down over the
body.
As we pass down the neck, the distance between the points of
application of the tips of the fingers and the thumb is somewhat
increased; otherwise the frictions fall inside the places where
the sensory nerves lie freer, and no effect at all is produced.
We must take advantage of these nerve frictions in fevers.
It is then necessary to continue them for several minutes,
the duration, of course, being dependent on the severity of
the case.
For my own part, I always direct my attention specially to
the places where the second pair of cervical nerves emerc^e.
NERVES OF THE TRUNK.
Lateral and Anterior Cutaneous Branches of the
Intercostal Nerves.
If we make frictions somewhat obliquely from above down-
wards over each intercostal space, a little anterior to a lonai-
tudmal lme drawn midway between the anterior and posterior
Ids of the axilla, we shall find the lateral cutaneous hranckes of
the mtercostal nerves.
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