Lessons on Massage

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was reviewed in the columns of the Indian Medical Gazette for February, 1002. We agree with the opinion then expressed that the socalled indispensable elements of Anatomy and Physiology are somewhat overdone when we consider the work is written for the masseuse. At the same time we think the author has done well to supply a certain amount of teaching on these subjects, so that the pupil may have a handy book of reference as her training and experience widen her horizon. To illustrate our meaning we may take the large coloured diagram of the back of the trunk with the coloured origins and insertions of the erector spinsB and complexus muscles, and the diagrams of the brachial,lumbarand sacral plexuses,?surety these are not indispensable for the masseuse. There is a large coloured diagram of the main vessels of the trunk and limbs which is doubtless of practical utility; but we must take exception to the artery marked "g Continuation of Radial Trunk," which can only exist as an aberrant

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