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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    has a duty to perform to one's patients as well as to the would be masseuse. It is just as difficult to learn Massag-e in a few easy lessons, as it is to become a piima donna by this simple means. Skilled labour as in all callings commands its price, but for the un- trained and incompetent there is no demand. I am always willing- to try and help those who have had the requisite education, but I cannot under- take to find work for the enormous army of unem- ployed to be met with in a large city like London. Most of these people have not the dimmest idea of what is meant by punctuality, and are just as incapable of keeping an appointment as they are of writing a decent letter. I am sorry to say this, but it is true. The so-called massage practised in some of the hospi- tals, and under the auspices of some of the nursing institutions, is a painful exhibition of ignorance and incompetence, being simply a degenerate form of rubbing or shampooing. Both are useful enough in their way, but they hardly rank as scientific ther^peu- tic agents. The art of Massage depending as it does on a knowledge of Anatomy and Physiology, takes many months to acquire, and the only plan at all D
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