A primer of the art of massage for learners / by Stretch Dowse.

  • Dowse, Thomas Stretch
Date:
1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A primer of the art of massage for learners / by Stretch Dowse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Secondly : This movement requires a little practice. Place both your hands at the back of the head in the occipito-mastoid regions respectively, carry them both up- wards and forwards on each side over the temporo-parietal regions, then continue onwards and forwards, each hand over the supra-orbital ridges and frontal eminences; then cross and work from before Ijack- wards over the vertex, now recross the hands and carry the movements right and left hand behind the right and left ramus of the jaw downwards over the sterno- mastoid muscles into the root of the neck. Do not remove the hands, but work them up the neck, the heel of the hand being followed by the fingers ; work the fingers well into the sub-occipital spaces and posterior triangles of the neck ; then com- mence and repeat the movements as before. Make these movements more or less firmly from first to last. Thirdly : Should you wish your manip-
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