Massage as a mode of treatment / by William Murrell.

  • William Murrell
Date:
1886
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Credit: Massage as a mode of treatment / by William Murrell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    iprofessional advertising- masseurs. It is right that people who may be recommended by their medical attendants to resort to massage should know the in- dividuals into whose hands they are liable to fall; and although I cannot here print all that has come to my knowledge with respect to the practices of the objectionable section of the fraternity, I intend to give some account of what I have learnt. A description then follows of the practices pursued in the establishment of a certain professor, and the article concludes with the following words :— At some of these establishments the so-called cure is carried on in large rooms, where the female pati- ents congregate together and perform rather after the manner of athletes at a gymnasium than suf- ferers in a doctor's reception-room. Not unlike the outer chamber of a Turkish bath, the women lie about on couches, or straddle wooden horses, mean- while discussing at their leisure with the German male attendants the possible efficacy of the profes- sor's cure. The account may be somewhat exaggerated but I .am convinced from what I have heard from various
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