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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    feasible is to train one's own operators. It may not be necessary for a masseuse to study Comparative Ana- tomy or even Topographical Anatomy, but it is essential that she should attend lectures on Plastic Anatomy or the Anatomy of External Forms, and this cannot be done in a week or in a month. It is of no use for me to tell her that she must perform effleurage of say the trapezius in the direction of its fibres, if she has no idea whether that muscle is situated in the back or in the sole of the foot. To work efficiently she must carry in her mind's eye the arrangement of the structures beneath the skin, and if she is not able to do this she is no better than a common shampooer. For some cases first class work may not be essential, but those are not the cases which test the efficacy of this mode of treat- ment. A short time since a gentlemen stated in one of the medical papers, that it might be learnt in a few easy lessons, like fly-fishing, tennis and cricket, but as it appeared that he had no practical know- ledge of the subject and that his views, to say the least, were somewhat hazy, the assertion may be al- lowed to pass without further criticism. The state-
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