Massage as a mode of treatment / by William Murrell.

  • William Murrell
Date:
1887
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Credit: Massage as a mode of treatment / by William Murrell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    repeated with regularity. The time to be devoted to each stroke will vary much, the strokes also follow- ing with more or less rapidity. Next comes petrissage which is more important and is by no means easy to acquire. It is this procedure above all others, as Lee, of Philadelphia, has pointed out, by which we act upon the circulation of the deep- seated parts and modify the processes of tissue meta- morphosis. It is a powerful excitant to the capillary circulation, and stim.ulant to secretion, and an awak- ener of dormant nervous energy. It consists essen- tially in picking up a portion of muscle or other tissue with both hands, or the fingers of one hand, and subjecting it to firm pressure, rolling it at the same time between the fingers and the subjacent tissues. The hands must move simultaneously, and in opposite directions. It will be observed that the thumb and fingers are wide apart, and that the whole muscle is taken up between the fingers and firmly pressed and rolled. The movement is made from below upwards, and the parts are squeezed in much the same way that one would squeeze out the con- tents of a sausage. Professor Von Mosengeil always
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