General massage, especially when combined with careful abdominal kneading, should be of great value in those cases of congenital disturbance of nutrition in infants in which growth is unsatisfactory in spite of good feeding; dyspeptic symptoms are often present, associated with irregular, fermenting and evil-smelling motions, and in severe cases general atrophy and death often result. Many reports in Stockholm show that such treatment may bring about improvement and health where otherwise the patient would probably die.

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What we have to say concerning massage in arthritis deformans, a disease which is now included among the anomalies of nutrition, will be found in the chapter on Joints.