Kallos : a treatise on the scientific culture of personal beauty and the cure of ugliness / by a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Date:
1883
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Credit: Kallos : a treatise on the scientific culture of personal beauty and the cure of ugliness / by a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    MASSAGE. This is a term occasioiiiilly used in thLs book, and applied to certain proceedings which may be shortly described as follows :— 1. Vigorously and forciljly rubbing the part acted on, tlie ruljljer laying on his whole force and weight, or at all events a gi'eat part of it. The hands of the operator may sometimes be oiled with advantage to prevent the friction from irritating the skin too much. The rubbing, when applied to a limb, should be directed from its distant extremity towards the body. It is the deeper parts rather than the skin itself which are desired to be acted on. 2. A process of pinching, nipping, or squeezing. This also is especially meant to act on the deeper parts, and therefore they should be thoroughly grasped, and the operator should not merely pinch up the skin in a mincing and feeble way. 3. Percussions ; that is to say, beating the parts affected, using either the hand or the fingers, or a flat, smooth, and light piece of wood like a paper- knife. Care should always be taken to apply this exercise to parts where there is a layer of flesh between the skin and the bone. Massage should in most cases where it is useful be employed eveiy day, or even twice a day. In the instances in which it is recommended in this book, from ten minutes to half an hour would be a sufficient period to use it at one time.