A primer of the art of massage for learners / by Stretch Dowse.

  • Dowse, Thomas Stretch.
Date:
1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A primer of the art of massage for learners / by Stretch Dowse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    behind it, and work your hands upon opposite sides of the head {Fig. i). ^' ^v- % % % First: Place your right hand firmly upon the occiput and mastoid process of the right temporal bone, whilst your left hand is placed upon the temporal bone and external angular process of the orbit. Both hands now traverse the head to meet each other upon the vertex; the right ascends upwards over the parietal bone to meet the left hand which is carried over the superciliary ridge and left frontal eminence of the frontal bone. These movements must be made firmly, and if well done the pressure of the one equalizes the pressure of the other, and so the head is kept vertical upon its balance. You now per- form precisely the same movements, but they are reversed ; the left hand is now working in the same way that the right hand was before.