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Excerpt from Of Massage: And Remedial Gymnastics In preparing the present edition many amplifications and additions have been made to the text in both parts of the work, and this has entailed a certain amount of rearrangement of the existing matter. The additions have been made in order to provide a more useful text-book and book of reference for students of massage, and also in the hope of meeting the requirements of those who are qualifying as medical gymnasts. In Part I. the chapter on the Skeleton has been extensively amplified, and certain additions have been made to the chapters on the Articulations and the Nervous System. Some rearrangement of the Tables of the Muscles has been made, and an additional column, giving their action, has been inserted. In Part II. Chapter II. an alteration has been made in the classification of the various massage movements. Formerly in many British Schools petrissage and kneading have been synonymous terms, also effleurage and stroking. In the Swedish Schools, on the contrary, there is a distinction between the terms in each case. This difference of nomenclature leads to a good deal of unnecessary confusion in the minds of those students who happen to pass from one training school to the other. Therefore, in the present edition it has seemed expedient to adopt the more minute classification which pertains in the Swedish Schools. An additional chapter on Remedial Gymnastics has been introduced and is arranged in tabular form; the author wishes to express her indebtedness here to Dr. Arvedsen and to Professor Wide, M.D., whose works she has consulted in compiling this part of the book. In subsequent chapters more space has been devoted to the Theory of Disease and to Applied Treatment, and tables of exercises for various conditions have been added. In the last chapter a description of Ionic Medication, Radiant Heat and Light treatment, and Diathermy has been given. My special thanks are again due to Dr. R. Atkinson Stoney for his generous help in reading and criticising my manuscript and in correcting the proofs. I have also much pleasure in acknowledging my indebtedness to Dr. F. Barrie Lambert, to Dr. R. T. Timberg, and to Dr. W. S. Haughton for reading and criticising certain portions of Part II. My thanks are due to Messrs. Spencer, Heath, and George for their kindness in lending blocks for the illustrations of the gymnastic apparatus, and I am also grateful for permission to use some of the new illustrations from Cunningham's Text-Book of Anatomy to illustrate Part I. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.