Francis Fuller the Younger

Francis Fuller ( * 1670 in Bristol, † 1706, the also called Francis Völler and to distinguish him from his father, Francis Fuller the Younger ) was an English medical writer, who made a name for himself in the history of motion therapy.

Francis Fuller was the second son of his father of the same name, and his wife Bridget and began his studies in 1687 at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he in 1691 the title of BA and 1704 to a M. A. acquired.

Work

Fuller suffered after to intensive external treatment of pruritus to severe hypochondria. The psychic anxiety disorder was accompanied by an indigestion ( dyspepsia). He could of the discomfort caused by exercise on horseback (today we would say therapeutic riding), and will heal by emetic.

This led him in 1704 to a book about the movement therapy for the treatment of diseases called " Medicina Gymnastica or treatise on the effectiveness of motion exercises in the animal kingdom and the urgent need to use it to cure health problems ". He criticized while the intake of too many drugs and recommended that they be replaced by increased movement. The successful work was published until 1777 in nine editions.

Francis Fuller developed the findings and proposals of the " English Hippocrates " Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689) on, the proponents of fresh air and exercise as a remedy for fatigue and hypochondria. Fuller suggested this in cases limited or impossible mobility as first substitute regular massages (see also massage # History ).