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perfect n It were anywhere else. is not
likely TO do much good to one who is any
thing of sensitive patient. a stout,
ruddy, or plump person is not the bestfor
massage. Such people require great
deal of exercise in the open air for the
proper oxygeneration Of their blood, and
combining work, like massage, with its
STOPPING posture, wearies them and puts
them out of breath.
Spare. enduring persons, with a gentle.
firm touch, absolutely without magnet
ism, are far and away the best masseurs.
For magnetism is like any other hypnotic
--chloral, chloroform, and the rest
prone to reactions which leave the pa.
tent weaker for its use. Sensitive peo-
pie will agree with me that the SO called
magnetic person absolutely repels and
antagonizes them; every bristle, so TO
speak, stands erect at his OF her approach.
and the whole system seems reused &c
throw off an unwholesome power. Some
clean old colored auntie or spinster who
is thankful to earn her bread by honest
rubin, without a notion of magnet
ism, is vastly more desirable than the
half trained masseur who has hurried
through course under some pupil teacher
in haste TO be earning 81 an hour. One
point must be taken, that the best physi-
clans condemn the use of vaseline or any
salves or unctions in massage. Oil baths
for the thin and badly nourished are de
sirable, but they should never be given
by hand. The best way of gaining their
effects is by hot air bath first-it may
be over hot register or bya blazing fire
IN ones room-till the pores are well
open. A hot soap and water bath, quickly
applied and wiped dry, should leave the
skin free, when pure olive oil, almond, OF
refined salad oil should be poured on the
shoulders and rubbed over the person
with sponge or absorbent silk. All the
better if the oil is misunderstanding
and refreshing more senses than one. At
least 10 minutes should be spent in the
hot air, allowing the skin to absorb the
oil-it is nonsense to talk of rubbing ii
in with any ordinary friction. Six table
spoonsful of oil are quite enough for
bath, as it is all the skin is likely to take
at once, and more is wasted. Care must
be taken TO keep the person entirely warm
and in glow during the bath. In Is to
80 minutes, as one grows accustomed
the remaining oil can be washed off with
warm, soapy water-no soap being APP
piled directly to the skin or it will wash
the oil from the pores.
Very weak persons may take an am
monia bath first-one tablespoonful OF
liquid ammonia to three quarts of warm
water-in the forenoon, with oil after it,
and second oil bath late in the day OF
evening without water bath. The oil
should be always as hot as is comforta.
bic. 1t is said that oil baths are given in
connection with some of the public baths
in Chicago, but it is probably for the
purpose of supplying the joints rather
than to nourish and strengthen invalids.
Thin dyspeptics, who can eat little;
persons in advanced consumption, and
patients recovering from fevers are nour-
ished and strengthened by absorbing
nutrition in this way, when the stomach
is too weak to supply the system.
AS to the mooted point in facial
massage, whether the stroking is to be
given toward the eyes and nose or away
from them, the answer is always away
from the nose and eyes. AS to whether
massage is given across wrinkles or in
their direction, the skin has its own con-
tractile power when reused, and there is
less danger of stretching it than is
imagined. DIR. Douglas tells us that
massage on other parts of the person
often has more effect in reaching organs
than rubbing the parts themselves In
masseeing the face of a fat patient the
tissues can be only rolled and stretched
under the fingers and palms, away from
the corners of the eyes and nose, toward
the angle of the lower jaw. If the
patient is thin or in moderate flesh, the
cheeks can be grasped between the
thumb and fingers and more thoroughly
squeezed and masseed in the same direc-
ton. The forehnger, covered with a
fold of thin cloth, may be put inside the
cheeks, and these softly squeezed, man.
ipulated, and stretched between thumb
and finger.
But nowhere is more practice and skill
required than in massage of the face and
head. That it win relieve the dreadful
neuralgia of the fifth pair of nerves is of
far less interest to most women than that
the cheeks can recover plumpness in this
way. Still massage is too much of an
art to be disposed Of in newspaper
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