Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The use of selected bodily movements with a view to the cure of disease; kinesitherapy.
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Examples
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This mechanical, passive exercise, or movement-cure treatment, differs widely from, and should not be confounded with, "Swedish movements," to which it is far superior in efficacy.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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The movement-cure - pinching and pounding the poor
Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures Mary Baker Eddy 1865
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