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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    that we cannot take John from the stable, or Biddy from the wash-tub, and in one easy lesson convert either into a safe, reliable, or efficient manipulator. Massage is an art, and, as such, must be acquired by study andpatient practice under competent guidance. The necessity for obtaining- educated people to per- form massage is as yet hardly recognised in this country. A short time ago on asking a medical friend if he used massage much in his practice he replied :—Oh yes, a great deal, my butler does it. After that I should not have been at all surprised to hear the electrical treatment was conducted by his footman, and that the kitchen-maid undertook the obstetric cases. Since the publication of the first edition of this book, I have received on an average a dozen letters a week from people expressing their readiness to undertake cases of Massage for me. I have been favoured with calls from nearly a hundred young ladies all more or less attractive—and incom- petent. When I venture to point out to them that it is desirable that they should have at least an elemen- tary knowledge of the subject, before undertaking the treatment of the sick, they uniformly resent the
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