The art of massage / by A. Creighton Hale.

  • Hale, A. Creighton.
Date:
[1893]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The art of massage / by A. Creighton Hale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GENEEAL EEMARKS. I QUOTE a few quaint ideas concerning massage. Madam ! will you be good enough to inform me if massage and electricity can be taught by corre- spondence, and if so, how long would the course take and what your fee ? My reply: You might as well attempt to convey a sigh in a letter. Again, a doctor teaches a nurse the art of massage on a pillow! Another opinion: You must go to Ger- many for two years to be properly taught. (Result, I get that very pupil to teach over again.) Another : A woman of ordinary intellect can learn massage in a day. (The doctor taught her himself in a day! She left her first patient an animated bruise.) Another questioner: Is not massage a thing that takes it out of one terribly ? No, not as I teach it. But is it not a sort of mesmerism ? A masseuse at a fashionable watering-place, who bruises her patients terribly, is accredited with being a clever masseuse, as she brings the had blood to the surface! When I hear such things I always regret that poor sufferers are perhaps not aware that a bruise is never given by a skilful and properly trained masseuse. Massage must be most cautiously used after sprains, etc., also in treating varicose veins for fear of causing htemorrhage. It must not be
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