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Entered at New York Post Office as se 'jond class matter. PREFATORY. 
Massotherapy, by the aid of the Muscle Roller and Muscle 
Beater, is an attempt, and a successful one, to bring massage into 
common use. Massage by the hand is, as a rule, a method of 
treatment for the wealthy who can afford to pay the skillful 
manipulator or masseur one or two dollars an hour for his 
services. It is also of great value in institutions and hospitals 
where trained assistants can administer the manipulations under 
the physician’s eye. 
But where there is one invalid who may command the ser- 
vices of a skillful masseur in the home or the sanatarium, there are 
a thousand sufferers in distant farm houses, in smaller towns and 
villages, in the homes in city and country where wealth does not 
abound, who are deprived of this powerful means of cure if it can 
only be given at the hands of the professional masseur. To meet 
the wants of the class who cannot command professional services 
in this line, and to popularize the massage method of treatment, is 
the object of this little book. 
We have unbounded faith in massage. Every day shows the 
growing importance of this method of treatment. Scarcely a 
recent medical journal can be taken up, especially if it be a 
European journal, that does not record additional triumphs for 
this branch of the healing art. Diseases that have been held to be 
incurable, troubles that it was claimed could only be removed by 
the surgeon’s knife, cases that have defied all drug treatment for 
years, have been found amenable to this wonderful natural pro- 
cess of restoration. The domain of this branch of healing art is 
steadily widening day by day, and its potency in this domain is 
being more and more recognized. In Europe the regular medical 4 
profession has not been slow in recent years to acknowledge the 
value of this method of treatment, and there it has been rescued 
from the hands of charlatans and so-called magnetic physicians, 
and elevated and elaborated into a scientific system. It would 
perhaps astonish the American public, and very likely the major- 
ity of American physicians, if they knew how high, how very 
high, a place massotlierapy holds in Europe in the practice of the 
leaders of the medical profession. Massotlierapy and kindred 
measures of treatment, such as hydrotherapy or baths, internal 
and external, and attention to diet and exercise, are gradually 
superseding the excessive drug treatment of disease that has 
prevailed. 
In the following pages we have tried to make the principles 
of the treatment and the methods of using it clear and plain, and 
at the same time of interest to the general reader. Technicalities 
have been avoided as far as possible, and no attempt has been 
made to give an exhaustive treatise on this subject. At the best, 
we give but hints of what may be done, striving to make our 
ideas practical, so that they may be used in the cure of disease. 
If interest is aroused by what has been said here, so that further 
information is wanted, the reader will find in recent large and 
elaborate works on this subject, all that can be said in its favor. FHon (UeakHess to Strength. 
In the following pages we shall bring to our read- 
ers—our patients, if we may be allowed the use of so near 
and sacred a word—a most important means of relief and 
cure. We propose to show them how to act on the hund- 
reds upon hundreds of miles of minute bloodvessels, sweat 
tubes, lymph channels and absorbents, along which flow 
the subtle life-giving fluids; upon the cellular structures 
that make up all the soft tissues of the body, muscle, adi- 
pose and connective tissue, on whose constant and rapid 
changes physical and mental health depends. 
The measures we shall offer are so simple that any one 
may understand them, so easy of application that they 
may be carried out in every home with little or no ex- 
pense, and so potent that the most powerful drugs are 
weak in comparison. 
In how many a home is there to-day a delicate and 
feeble invalid, who for months, perhaps years, makes no 
permanent gain. Doctors of all kinds come and go, and 
try this and that, and there is no restoration to health. 
Friends and relatives, husband or father or mother, bro- 
thers and sisters, those who would almost lay down a part 
of their own lives to bring the glow of health to the suf- 
ferer’s cheek, stand helplessly by and accept as a decree of 6 
inscrutable Providence lhat the loved one must suffer and 
pine, and become a chronic invalid. A chronic invalid 1 
How much that means! Think of all the pain, all the dis- 
appointment, all the deprivation of the beautiful things 
of life. And the invalid is not alone the sufferer; but the 
disease, whatever it may be, is a cannibal that consumes 
not only the patient, but, in many cases, the time and the 
energies and the patience of the whole family. 
Suppose, now, that the friends were assured that in 
their own strong arms and loving hearts was one of the 
most potent means imaginable for bringing life back to 
the sufferer; that they might administer daily draughts 
of their own abundant strength and vitality to the weak- 
ened one. Suppose that the blood could be set bounding 
through the invalid’s pulses to the same beat that comes 
from the heart of him or her; would not that be “a con- 
summation devoutly to be wished ? ” 
You have heard, perchance, of the transfusion of 
blood; how the vital fluid is carried from the veins of the 
well to those of the sick. This is one of the most striking 
experiments we have ever witnessed. Imagine the scene : 
a blanched and exsanguinated sufferer, stretched on a 
couch; the pulse at the wrist not perceptible; the flutter 
of the heart at the chest and the faint gasping breath the 
only signs of life. Beside the couch stands the embodi- 
ment of life and strength, a man with sleeve rolled up to 
the shoulder, showing a brawny arm, ribbed and marked 
with great veins. 
The surgeon quickly makes an incision, and slips one 
end of a glass-tipped rubber tube into the collapsed vein 7 
on the arm of the dying woman, the other end into the 
swollen vein of the large bared arm. Now watch the re- 
sult on the one at the threshold of eternity. The emptied 
blood-vessels begin to fill, the heart to beat slower and 
stronger, the pulse at the wrist becomes perceptible, and 
a faint tinge of color steals into the pale cheeks. Death 
gives way to life because a life-giving fluid, drawn from 
the strong man, is now coursing in fuller streams through- 
out the sufferer’s body. This is transfusion. 
We do not claim that invalids, as a rule, can be treated 
in this manner, and receive directly the vital fluid from the 
veins of a friend ; but we can show how a strong and 
willing friend can transfer part of his or her strength to 
a sufferer, and that, too, without loss to the donor. 
Not only the invalid may be benefited by the strength 
of others, but the person who may be weak in a certain 
point may equally benefit himself by this means. How 
many a man or woman knows that from some part of the 
body, from liver or intestines, or painful nerves, or weak 
joints comes all the trouble. “Let that be right and I can 
hold my own with all the world.” We propose to show 
just how these troubled persons may act upon the weak- 
ened part until it comes up to the level of the other organs 
in activity and strength. 
What is this wonderful process ? 8 
MASSOTHERAPY. 
This is a large and formidable word, and yet it is some- 
thing quite simple. Massage is from masso, I rub, and 
means manipulation by the hands; and therapy signifies 
a method or system of treatment. We shall use the 
word to mean treatment by manipulation with the hands 
directly (massage), or by indirect manipulations with 
muscle rollers and beaters. Massotherapy means any or 
all three methods of treatment. 
Time was, and not many years ago, when the word 
“ massage ” was almost unknown in medical writing, 
especially in America. But year by year it has grown in 
familiarity, and the thing it represents has become a more 
and more important medical factor. In Europe it has 
long been one of the most prized of therapeutic or cura- 
tive measures, and in this country the medical profession 
are beginning to recognize more fully the great value of 
this method of treatment. 
It is our aim to popularize it among the laity, so that 
this really wonderful method of treatment may be under- 
stood and its beneficial influences felt wherever sickness 
and suffering are found throughout the land. 
This treatment has a history, and at the risk of being 
prolix, we shall venture to give a brief extract from Pro- 
fessor Dujardin-Beaumetz’s lectures that illustrates the 
important points of this history. 9 
After dwelling upon the fact that it is instinctive in 
man to rub a bruised, weak, or cold or painful part of the 
body, and thus to restore the natural circulation, he shows 
that massotherapy has been a valued means of cure among 
all nations of antiquity, among many rude people, and 
especially among the Orientals. He says : 
“ It can easily be shown that the Greeks and Romans were 
also in the habit of employing massage. Among the aphorisms 
of Hippocrates, there occur several observations which show this 
treatment was part of the wisdom of his time. ‘ The physician,’ 
he says, must be experienced in many things, but assuredly also 
in rubbing ; for rubbing* can bind a joint that is too loose, and 
loosen a joint that is too rigid.’ And again, ‘ rubbing can bind and 
loosen, can make flesh and cause flesh to waste. Much rubbing 
causes parts to waste ; moderate rubbing causes them to grow.’ 
Galen, the most accomplished physician of his age, recommended 
friction in a great number of diseases, generally as an auxiliary to 
other means. Celsus suggests the use of friction for the removal 
of deposits in the tissues, and especially for the relief of pain. 
Oribasus also, in his compilation, indicates all the practices of 
massage, giving the minutest details. 
“ The Renaissance, it must be admitted, added little to what 
the ancients knew respecting massage. I ought, however, to men- 
tion a curious tract by Paullini, which appeared about the end of 
the seventeenth century, and was entitled “Flagellum Salulis.’ 
“ It is only within a few years that massage has obtained the 
right of domain in medicine. This movement of scientific reno- 
vation took place almost simultaneously in France, in Holland, 
and in Germany. 
“In France, in 1837, Martin represented to the Medical 
Society of Lyons the marvellous results which he had obtained 
from massage in the treatment of lame back and lumbago. 
* The Greek word (anatripsis) really means more than “ rubbing-.” 10 
Lebatard and Ellaume in 1860, Rizet in 1862, showed the advan- 
tage which may be obtained from massage in sprains ; but we 
must come down to the thesis of Estradere in 1863 before we find 
a comprehensive treatise on the effect of massage. Works on this 
subject have since multiplied, and I cannot even give you a full 
list of their titles; but I cannot refrain from indicating the great 
value which I ascribe to the brilliant work of Estrad&re, who was 
the first to put in clear light the physiological effects of massage, 
and the therapeutic benefits to be derived therefrom. Neverthe- 
less, it is not France alone that derived all the benefits of this 
work. Holland has reaped advantages from it under the influence 
of Mezger and his pupils, and we see even nowT patients flocking 
from all parts of Europe to Mezger’s clinic to essay the effects of 
massage under the direction of that celebrated masseur. 
“ Mezger has written but little. The only treatise of his 
which we possess (and it is of very modest dimensions) was pub- 
lished in 1868 at Amsterdam. He says in this work that it is his 
intention to devote himself particularly to those special applica- 
tions of gymnastics which are called frictions, or, better still, mas- 
sage. He adds that in 1853 he began at Amsterdam the treatment 
of sprains by this means ; that little by little he improved his 
system, and that since 1861 he has occupied himself exclusively 
with massage. Mezger has gathered around him numerous 
pupils. 
“In Sweden, it is under the influence of Berglimann, of 
Helledag, and especially of Amstrom, that the method of Mezger 
lias spread. In Russia, Berglind has been the pioneer in this 
direction. Lastly, in France, we owe to Norstrom, of Stockholm, 
a complete exposition of Mezger’s method. 
“ In Germany, it is under the influence of Rosbach, of Busch, 
and particularly of Schreiber and of Reibmayr, that massage has 
taken a truly scientific development. The work of Schreiber has 
been translated into French, and more recently still into English ; 
Reibmayr’s has been translated into French and annotated by one 
of my pupils, who has made a specialty of massage.” 11 
Nordhoff, in his book on “Northern California, Oregon 
and the Sandwich Islands,” gives the following graphic 
description of the lomi-lomi or rubbing as practised by 
the Sandwich Islanders: 
“ Wherever you stop or lunch for the night, if there are 
native people near, you will be greatly refreshed by the appli- 
cation of lomi-lomi. Almost everywhere you will find some one 
skilled in this peculiar, and, to tired muscles, delightful and re- 
freshing treatment. To be lomi-lomied you lie down upon a mat 
or undress for the night. The less clothing you have on the more 
perfectly the operation can be performed. To you thereupon 
comes a stout native with soft, fleshy hands, but a strong grip, 
and beginning with your head and working down slowly over 
the whole body, seizes and squeezes with a quite peculiar art 
every tired muscle, working and kneading with indefatigable 
patience, until in half an hour, whereas you were weary and worn 
out, you find yourself fresh, all soreness and weariness absolutely 
and entirely gone, and mind and body soothed to a healthful and 
refreshing sleep. 
“ The lomi-lomi is used not only by the natives, but among 
almost all the foreign residents ; and not merely to procure relief 
from weariness consequent on over-exertion, but to cure head- 
aches, to relieve the aching of neuralgic and rheumatic pains, and 
by the luxurious as one of the pleasures of life. I have known it 
to relieve violent headache in a very short time. The chiefs keep 
skillful lomi-lomi men and women in their retinues ; and the late 
king, who was for some years too stout to take exercise, and yet 
was a gross feeder, had himself lomi-lomied after every meal as a 
means of helping his digestion. It is a device for relieving pain 
and weariness which seems to have no injurious reaction and no 
drawback but one—it is said to fatten the subjects of it.” 
This latter fault will not be considered an objection by 
most Americans. The dry irritating climate of this coun- 12 
try inclines us to leanness of body; and as lomi-lomi or 
massage, or muscle rolling, counteracts this tendency, it 
will be of particular benefit to this race. 
A THOUSAND MILES OF TUBING. 
We shall now try to tell in plain language what masso- 
therapy can do, and then tell how to carry it out. 
But first, a few anatomical facts. Perhaps the reader 
knows that in the skin of a grown person there is more 
than thirty miles of tubes, sweat tubes, whose work it is 
to carry worn out and useless material from the body. 
Possibly you know that in the skin, surrounding these 
sweat tubes, are many hundred miles of smaller tubes, 
filled with blood. These are the capillaries, the smallest 
blood vessels, those that distribute the blood directly to 
the tissues. All this is within that very thin covering of 
the body, the skin. 
Now go the deeper tissues. These same wonderful 
blood carriers, the capillaries, exist here. They penetrate 
and permeate the structures of the body in every direc- 
tion ; every nerve is filled with them ; every minute fibre 
of every muscle in the body is honey-combed with them; 
the fatty tissues and the bones have them in abundance. 
If the length of the tubes and vessels of the skin are 
computed in hundreds of miles, what shall we say about 
the length of the capillaries throughout the body! We 13 
should have to employ the figures that astronomers use 
in measuring the distances to the fixed stars. 
But we have not done with the small vessels of the 
body yet. There are the lymph channels and the absorb- 
ents, making a system of tubes less important than the 
capillary system, but still of immense extent. 
These are dry anatomical facts, you exclaim. Are they 
uninteresting? To us such facts are as wonderful, as awe- 
inspiring as the wonders of the starry heavens. But these 
facts have a most important bearing on the treatment by 
massage and manipulation, i. e., by massotherapy. 
Along these infinitesimal tubes course the life-giving 
fluids of the body. The capillaries enter the tissues of 
the body, making channels for the food taken from the 
alimentary canal, and oxygen taken from the lungs. These 
supplies are to build up the body. The capillaries emerge 
from a structure and through them retreat the blood cells 
loaded down with waste and poisonous debris. 
Movement, constant movement, through these little 
vessels is the law of life. Let these currents cease in a 
part and death and decay takes supremacy. Let this 
movement through the capillaries throughout the body 
be slowed beyond natural rates, and that moment weak- 
ness and disease commence. 
The object of massotherapy is to stimulate movement, 
the flow of life-giving currents through the infinitesimal 
tubes that permeate all the structures of the living body. 
Thus more active life will be inaugurated. 
A simple experiment will show how great is the influ- 
ence of this treatment on tissues. According to Berne, 14 
if a certain part of the body, the arm, for instance, 
be thoroughly massaged for a few minutes, the tempera- 
ture of that part will be found to be five degrees higher 
than the rest. 
Why is the temperature of the part thus quickly 
raised ? Simply because the treatment has sent more 
blood to the part, chemical and vital changes have com- 
menced to take place more rapidly, old things are passing 
away, new life is coming in. Now suppose these increased 
changes can be brought about in time, not only in a small 
part of the invalid’s body, but in a large part. Suppose 
the cold, pale skin can be made warm and red, the flabby 
muscles harder, the weak stomach stimulated to more 
rapid digestion, and the torpid liver and intestines to 
quicker action. Well, it can be done. What is possible 
in a part, is possible throughout the body. 
The best possible safeguard against ill health is right 
habits, habits of eating and sleeping properly, and especi- 
ally taking a proper amount of exercise. Now the major- 
ity of the readers of this book have not the time or the 
energy to enter the foot-ball field or the gymnasium, but 
should have some means of exercising all the five hundred 
muscles of the body, right at hand, in the office, bed- 
room or study. This can be done with an Exerciser, 
or with free-hand gymnastics; and it can be accomplished, 
almost as well, with the muscle roller and beater and the 
hand manipulation in a massage treatment. The effect of 
massotherapy on muscular tissue is almost identical with 
the result of active use of a muscle. 15 
In self-application massotherapy is a sort of double- 
benefit exercise, where one not only gets good as a result 
of the muscular effort put forth, but the tissues acted upon 
receive a second and greater benefit from the direct effect 
of the massage. The effort thus yields the highest rate of 
compound interest. 
Where the treatment is applied to others, the recipient 
gets all the benefit obtained from active exercise, without 
any of the exhaustion and loss of vital energy that must 
come from great physical efforts, especially if made by 
an individual not very robust. The one who administers 
the treatment is also benefited by the exercise of his own 
muscles. 
Thus it must be clear that massotherapy may be as 
useful in preserving health as in curing disease. It is far 
easier to keep out the enemy than to expel him after he 
has obtained a foothold in the citadel. 16 
DISEASES FOR WHICH IT IS USED. 
What we have said as to the use of massotherapy in 
the cure of disease may seem like the talk of an enthu- 
siast ; but we shall summon very high authority to prove 
our position, and incidentally to show in what affections 
massotherapy is useful. 
Dujardin-Beaumetz is one of the leading teachers and 
lecturers in the Paris medical schools. He is a brilliant 
writer and a popular teacher; a member of the regular, 
or old school of medicine, and a thoroughly scientific phy- 
sician. No one will think of him as liable to give more 
prominence to a certain curative method than the facts 
will warrant. Listen, then, to his views as given in the 
lecture before referred to. The notes we shall give from 
this lecture will be somewhat disconnected, but give a fair 
idea of his position on this subject. We have taken the 
liberty of changing a few medical terms into plain English, 
otherwise the extracts are in his own language. 
After speaking of the beneficial action of massotherapy 
on the skin, in opening the pores and making it soft and 
clear, he continues: 
“ The action on the muscles is quite as marked, and by 
kneadings or strokings of the muscles we arouse and augment 
their contractility. Strike with the inner border of your hand 
the triceps or biceps muscle of the arm, and you will see produced 
on the parts of the muscle thus stroked a peculiar hard swelling, 
which results from its limited contraction. 17 
“ Clipolinski, in liis inaugural thesis, published last year, ‘ On 
the Length of Time that Aliments ordinarily Sojourn in the 
Stomach,’ has shown that massage, practised for ten minutes at a 
time, will diminish the length of the sojourn of food in the stomach. 
“ The first case on which he experimented was that of a med- 
ical student, in whom a meal consisting of five hundred grammes 
of meat was five hours and twenty-five minutes in completely 
disappearing from the stomach. The days when massage was 
performed, the duration of gastric digestion was only four hours 
and thirty minutes. 
“In another subject, where a meal composed of two eggs and 
a gramme of salt required three hours and fifteen minutes for its 
disappearance from the stomach, massage reduced this period to 
two hours and forty-five minutes. 
“ As you see, gentlemen, massage notably promotes the gastric 
digestion, or at least the passage of alimentary substances from the 
stomach into the intestines. 
“ These experiments have, moreover, brought to view a fact 
which physiologists who have taken up the subject of massage 
have touched but lightly, and which at the same time seems to me 
to have capital importance in these applications of massotlierapy : 
I refer to the augmentation of diuresis under the influence of 
abdominal massage. All our patients on whom abdominal mas- 
sage has been practised have testified to a notable augmentation 
in the urine, which sometimes amounts to double the usual quan- 
tity, and this is an important point, to which I propose to return 
when we come to study the indications for massotherapy. 
“ The treatment of sprains by massage has been attended with 
excellent results. First practised by the bone-setters, gray nuns, 
“sprain blowers” (sofflueurs d’entorses), etc., massage is to-day em- 
ployed in the treatment of sprain by all surgeons ; and the works 
of Ellaume, of Lebatard, of Mervy, of Estradbre, of Rizet, etc., 
show us the importance of this method. 
All cases of sprain, simple or complicated—except, of course, 
those -where there exists a fracture of the joints (and we have seen 
that even this is not now regarded as a contra-indication) — are 18 
tributary to massage. The beneficial effects are the more speedy 
and certain the sooner massage is applied after the accident ; and 
you will often see patients who at first could not stand on their 
feet, get up and walk and even return to their homes on foot, 
after their first seance of massage. 
“ In the Prussian army, where massage is obligatory in a cer- 
tain number of affections, and, in particular, in sprains, the military 
surgeons, in their half-yearly reports, do not fail to communicate 
the results obtained by this method. By referring to the reports 
of Starke, Gassner, Brurberger, Gerst and Korner, you will see 
that the average duration of the disability entailed by sprains, 
where massage has not been employed, is 27.3 days; and where 
massage has been used the time is 8.9 days; so that you see there 
is a difference of 14.7 days in favor of the treatment of sprains by 
massage. It is to be wished that the practice might be obligatory 
on the military surgeons of our army. 
“ I come now to the medical applications of massage. They 
are very numerous ; and we will, if you please, divide them into 
several groups. I will speak, first, of massage in the treatment of 
pain, then in articular and muscular affections, then in neuroses, 
and lastly, in certain visceral affections. 
“As I have before told you, it is by an instinctive movement 
that man seeks to relieve pain by frictions; and I have often seen 
patients in the agonies of tic-douloureux rub the skin till abrasion 
and bleeding were produced. Experts have given regularity and 
system to these practices ; and what I have to say on this head 
shall pertain particularly to sciatica and migraine. 
“ It is Schreiber who has given us the most precise rules as to 
the treatment of sciatica by massage. The treatment of sciatica, 
according to Schreiber, consists in massage, the application of 
certain apparatus, and in passive movements. 
“ This practice of massage is applicable to all the other neu- 
ralgias ; but the manoeuvres are valuable, according to the seat of 
pain ; and among these painful affections I must point out to you 
in particular the good effects of massage in the treatment of 
migraine or nervous headache. 19 
“ Dr. Lucas Pardington lias, moreover, quite recently taken 
up the subject of the treatment of migraine by massage ; and he 
has reported a case of a man, twenty-six years of age, suffering 
from liemicramia of grave form and rebellious to all the means of 
treatment, which wras cured in three days by seances of massage 
of twenty minutes’ duration, made over all points of the head and 
neck which were affected. 
“ I wTill add that for the symptom cramp, whatever may be its 
cause, massage is a sovereign remedy ; and you should here em- 
ploy principally kneading of the muscles and the strokes or taps. 
“Paralysis agitans, or shaking palsy, is also believed to be 
amenable to treatment by massage ; and Berlins has recently re- 
ported to the Society of Therapeutics the favorable results which 
he has obtained by this means in a case of Parkinson’s disease. 
“As for the neuroses \i. e., nerve troubles], I shall not repeat 
what I have said apropos of the treatment of chorea or St. Vitus 
dance, by gymnastics, wdiere, in truth, massage is oftener employed 
than gymnastics properly so called ; but I must call your especial 
attention to massage in hysteria, because serving as the basis of a 
kind of treatment of this disease which has become very popular 
of late years under the name of the S. Weir Mitchell method. 
“ Dr. Mitchell began by completely isolating his hysterical 
patients from their family and usual surroundings, and putting 
them under the care of a trained nurse, who never leaves them ; 
then he subjects them to absolute repose and a special diet system, 
of which milk and eggs form the basis. Then he insists on the 
daily thorough application of general massage. Under this system 
flesh and blood are rapidly made and the patient becomes strong. 
This treatment has but few advocates in France, and is applicable 
only to extreme cases of hysteria. Nothing shows that it is su- 
perior to the system which we employ in such cases — namely, 
isolation, massage, water cure and exercise in the open air. 
“ It remains for me to say a few words concerning massage in 
general affections. In diseases of the heart, massage will render 
you service in combating oedema [dropsy], and the same may be 20 
said of oedema due to renal affections; and I remember to have 
seen a remarkable example of this. The patient was the wife of 
a medical confrere, who was suffering from albuminous nephritis, 
with considerable anasarca [swelling] of the lower limbs, which 
doomed her to absolute rest. Massage removed the oedema, which 
did not return, although the quantity of albumen in the urine 
remained unchanged. 
“ Here the effects of massage are two-fold. It acts, first of all, 
locally, and favors the resorption of effused liquids ; then it has a 
general action, promoting nutrition, augmenting the excretion of 
urea, and thus combating one of the effects of chronic alterations 
of the kidneys. 
“ Furthermore, I showed you, while speaking of the physio- 
logical action of massage, that the practice of abdominal massage 
notably augments the excretion of urine. This is an effect which 
ought to be taken account of in explaining the favorable effects of 
massage in cardiac and renal affections. 
“ Massage has an undoubted action on nutrition. It lias, in 
fact, been demonstrated that the quantity of urea in the urine 
augments under the influence of general massage. 
“ Lastly, in abdominal affections, constipation and dilation of 
the stomach, massage lias been found to give excellent results. 
As for constipation, everybody is agreed in acknowledging the 
good results obtained by massage. 
“Berne, who has so strongly urged the importance of abdom- 
inal massage, recommends the following mode of procedure : 
After having kneaded the abdominal teguments, then the abdom- 
inal muscles, the operator makes gentle pressure over the right 
side of the abdomen with the palmar extremities of the last four 
fingers ; then, with the closed fists, he performs massage over the 
whole extent of the colon. 
“ Besides insisting on the mechanical action of massage, Berne 
gives account of the property which these exercises possess in pro- 
moting the secretion of bile. Hence he advises to associate with 
the above manoeuvres, gentle pressure over the gall bladder and 
percussion of the liver. 21 
“ As for affections of the stomach, massage in these cases 
gives excellent results. You have been enabled in the past month 
to witness in this hospital the marked benefit which such cases 
have derived from massage. Their digestion has improved, their 
weight increased, and all the distressing symptoms are alleviated. 
It is a practice which you ought to resort to in such cases.” 
Such are the views of Professor Dujarclin-Beaumetz. 
We have quoted him in preference to teachers who make 
a specialty of massotherapy simply because we wished an 
unbiased statement. 
We hold that massotherapy is applicable and should 
be used in all chronic troubles, and in all affections not 
accompanied with much fever. In general debility it is a 
grand tonic, starting the sluggish forces into renewed life. 
In anaemia, or poor and watery blood, massotherapy, 
accompanied with a diet of simple, nutritious food, will 
quickly bring the color to pale lips and cheeks. It is 
really astonishing how quickly this treatment will increase 
the appetite and quicken the power to assimilate food. 
It is not how much one eats, but how much one 
absorbs into the blood and assimilates into the tissues 
that is of value. “ As wxell try to fat a fanning mill run- 
ning corn through it,” as expect to gain flesh and strength 
by eating more than the system can absorb. In cases of 
debility and anaemia, we must increase the powers of assim- 
ilation by massotherapy and exercise, and then appetite 
will call for more food to meet the want. 
How many a poor invalid is literally stuffed with all 
sorts of delicacies that he doesn’t crave and can’t assim- 
ilate, all to no purpose; while if half the time spent in pre- 
paring these “goodies ” was employed in setting the blood 22 
into more rapid circulation and increasing life action in all 
the tissues by massotherapy with hand or muscle roller, 
there would be a demand for good nourishment. 
In such cases give massotherapy a month’s trial, feed- 
ing with easily digested foods, and treating the stomach 
and intestines after the manner indicated in a preceding 
chapter. First, get your patient weighed. Then, at the 
end of the month, when you find an increase of five or 
ten pounds in weight, you will feel sure you are on the 
right track. 
In constipation, rather than resort to cathartic medi- 
cine, the accumulated debris should be flushed out with 
copious warm water enema. We should not, however, be 
satisfied with simply cleansing the colon by flushing, but 
should strive to so strengthen its nerve and muscular forces 
by massage of the abdomen as to make this weak and slug- 
gish organ the most active and vigorous in the body. 
That massotherapy will do this we have the testimony 
of many writers ; of Berne in particular, endorsed by 
Dujardin-Beaumetz ; of Schreiber, of Dowse, and almost 
numberless others. You can test the matter for yourself. 
Give a daily treatment to the abdomen for one month, by 
kneading (or by the rolling to be described), and see if, at 
the end of that time, you have not done more towards 
the cure of your constipation than by years of cathartic 
treatment with drugs. 
We must not dwell longer here on this phase of our 
subject, but will proceed at once to tell how massotherapy 
is to be carried on. 23 
HOW TO APPLY IT. 
You must know in the first place that massage treat- 
ment is carried out usually by professionals, by men and 
women who have studied the art and who make a business 
of applying it. When one can afford it, and the masseurs 
can be obtained readily, it may be well to employ them. 
But this book is written, for the most part, for people 
who do not find it convenient to employ professional mas- 
seurs. It will be our aim, then, to make this art so clear 
and simple that any one can understand and apply it, and 
thus it can be brought into every home. 
Dr. Thomas S. Dowse, a teacher of massage, gives 
three modes of applying the massage treatment, namely: 
(1) Effleurage j (2) Petrissage; (3) Tapotement. 
The plain English of this is : (1) Rubbing; (2) Knead- 
ing or rolling and pinching gently; (3) Pounding softly 
or tapping with the ends of the fingers. This is the sum 
of the whole matter. 
Now how is this to be applied ? 
Let us take the case of a patient suffering from dys- 
pepsia and constipation with great debility. The friend, 
relative or nurse who is to apply the massage, stands or 
sits at the side of the couch, upon which the patient is 
lying with head and shoulders slightly raised. The attend- 
ant commences by gently tapping over the pit of the 
stomach with the ends of the fingers, making these move- 
ments rapidly and softly. Usually there is great tender- 
ness and soreness here in cases of dyspepsia, and care 24 
must be taken not to cause pain. After continuing the 
treatment here a minute, apply the tapping movements 
over the whole abdomen, always commencing at the right 
side and finishing at the left. This movement may be 
made while the patient is dressed in a thin cotton gar- 
ment or covered with a sheet. 
Now take some warm palm oil or white vaseline in the 
palm of the hand and anoint the skin of the abdomen and 
stomach well, and then, slipping the hands under the 
sheet, gently press the tips of the fingers of both hands 
against the patient’s right side, and then draw them 
across the abdomen towards the left. Keep these move- 
ments up for five minutes, gradually increasing the force 
used, and the rapidity of the movements. The next step 
is to act directly on the colon or large intestine. 
It must be borne in mind that the colon forms an arch 
in the abdomen. It commences in the right groin, low 
down, runs up towards the ribs, bows across just below the 
stomach to the left side, and then down. To act on this 
organ and force its contents along, place the tips of all the 
fingers at about the origin of the colon and press in with a 
little force; then slip the fingers upward for an inch or less 
and press once or twice again. Then move the fingers a 
little further and press again. Proceed in this manner over 
the length of the colon. Then repeat twenty times. 
All these movements have to be made very carefully at 
first; but, day by day, if the treatment is persisted in, the 
soreness and tenderness disappears, and then more force 
can be employed. 25 
Does not the above explanation make the method of 
treatment plain and clear ? Yet, in applying it, the attend- 
ant really employs effleurage, petrissage and tapotement. 
French phrases and words sometimes sound very formi- 
dable to English ears, but their meaning is simple. 
Huckleberry Finn says to his companion on the raft, 
the runaway negro: 
“ Jim, what’d you say if any one should say to you, 
‘ Parly-vous-franzy ’ ? ” 
“ Would’nt say nuffin. I’d just bust him over de ear; 
leasways if he wasn’t a wite man. Wouldn’ low no nigger 
to call me dat.” 
Huckleberry tells Jim that the words don’t mean any- 
thing but “Do you speak French?” Whereat Jim in- 
quires, very ‘ pertinately we think, if they mean that why 
don’t they say that ? 
We might with equal pertinence make similar inquiries 
of the professors of massotherapy. 
The attendant having rested a few minutes after the 
treatment of the abdomen, should give the patient a gen- 
eral treatment. This should be done by commencing with 
one of the arms (the rest of the body covered warmly with 
a blanket). Iiub the arm smoothly with both hands, first 
having applied the white vaseline or palm oil. Rub until 
the skin is warm and reddened. Then commence a rolling 
motion with the arm held between the two palms—much 
the same motion as cooks use in shaping a biscuit for the 
pan. Finally end the work on the arm by pressing the 
pulps of the fingers in between the muscles so as to stimu- 
late the deep muscular fibres and stretch the nerves. 26 
If this has been done thoroughly, yet carefully, there 
will be more life, more glow and strength in that arm than 
there has been perhaps in many months. 
Give the same treatment to the other arm and shoul- 
der, and then in succession to the thighs, legs and feet. 
Now the patient turns on the face and the back is 
well rubbed; then percussed or tapped lightly and very 
rapidly with the tips or pulps of the fingers; or the hand 
may be held so as to bring the ends of the fingers and the 
thumb together, forming an inverted cup. 
This ends the general tonic treatment. 
How does the patient feel ? He or she feels as if 
something unusual had happened. No dose of medicine 
ever taken has had such a striking effect. There has been 
a stirring up of the whole system; there is a pleasurable 
tingling in all the nerves, and the blood currents seem to 
be running quicker and fuller than before. Most patients 
find a massage treatment soothing and agreeable. Some 
O O O 
find the first one or two treatments a little too stimu- 
lating ; after that there is no trouble. All find an increase 
of appetite. 
How does the attendant feel ? 
If not accustomed to this work, we venture to say 
that the nurse is more exhausted than ever before. Such 
a treatment, if properly administered, is extremely fatig- 
uing to the one who gives it. It is so fatiguing that many 
strong persons cannot at first continue the work for more 
than thirty minutes at a time. 
This, in fact, is about the only drawback to a very 
general use of massage in the home treatment of chronic 27 
and sub-acute troubles. On a later page we shall show 
how this difficulty may be overcome by the use of muscle 
rollers and beaters, and thus the only real objection to 
massotherapy will be obviated. 
We have briefly described in the foregoing a general 
tonic massage treatment with a special treatment for dys- 
pepsia and constipation. This will be the most common 
method of using massage. But there are special troubles 
that need mention. 
In neuralgias of all kinds this treatment is indicated, 
and is usually applied by rapid tappings with the pulps of 
the fingers over the painful nerves. The treatment should 
be used very lightly at first, and the force gradually in- 
creased, but never so as to cause pain. After the tapping 
treatment a rubbing with hot oily preparations or a lini- 
ment is very soothing and quieting. 
For rheumatism, sprains, stiff joints, etc., the treat- 
ment commences with rubbings with hot oily applications; 
followed by deep pressure and kneadings; and finally ends 
by forcibly moving the weak and stiffened joints. This lat- 
ter procedure must be done carefully at first, and will be 
accompanied with the groans and protests of the .patient. 
But, day by day, the natural lubricating fluids of the joints 
and tendons will be brought back by the manipulations, 
and in a short time the bed-ridden patient will be the 
marvel of the community. 
Even in obesity this treatment is effective, as, when 
used over the abdomen, it does away with the accumu- 
lation of fat in that region. Muscle-rolling, we know, 
will do this ; and in a month’s treatment the relaxed, 28 
fat-infiltrated, bowed-out abdominal walls become hard 
and straight. This is due to the rapid development of 
mucular tissue here. 
The wonderful cures made by magnetic physicians and 
rubbers are the result, it seems to us, of thorough massage 
on the practitioner’s part, and of faith on the part of the 
patient. These two curative principles, faith and masso- 
therapy, are a combination more powerful for good in many 
cases than the most potent curative measure ever known. 
We shall venture to give a case in point to illustrate 
this statement. 
About seven years ago we were requested by a city 
missionary to see a poor woman who had been bed-ridden 
for three years. She had been under treatment by many 
physicians, but all to no avail. 
We saw the patient, and, after a long and careful 
examination, we assured her that on the first Thursday of 
the following month (i.e., three weeks from the date of our 
examination), she would be up and dressed and take five 
steps across the floor. The patient was most incredulous. 
Many physicians had assured her that they could cure her 
but had failed. 
Yes, we said, but had they tried a remedy that had 
been used in the hospitals in Paris in such cases, with 
never-failing success? The woman thought not; her 
medicines had always been procured at the neighboring 
drug store. 
At our next visit we brought with us a certain won- 
derful liniment that had been known to restore strength 
to limbs as weak as hers, and the woman’s two strong 29 
daughters were instructed how to apply this liniment with 
the rubbing, kneading and pinching movements the pro- 
fessional masseur employs. The liniment was the simplest 
standard preparation we could get. We also brought a 
supply of the pills that had caused marvelous cures (com- 
position : mucilage and flour), and gave careful instruc- 
tions as to their administration. 
And now the treatment of the case goes steadily for- 
ward. Every day the daughters become more expert and 
vigorous manipulators; and they rub and squeeze the 
wasted muscles until the blood and fluids are set in motion 
as they have not been before in years. Every day we 
assure her confidently that on the certain Thursday, at 3 
p. m., she shall take five steps. At each visit we see the 
signs of growing faith in our prophecy and growing physi- 
cal strength. Incredulity is giving place to hope, and 
there is no tonic superior to that. All the functions of the 
body become more active. The stomach calls for food, in- 
stead of waiting to have food, like an unwelcome visitor, 
quartered upon it. The eye grows brighter and the cheek 
gets a tinge of color. 
The looked for Thursday arrives. At the appointed 
hour we visit the patient and find her dressed and lying on 
the bed, ready for the trial. Her courage is now as great 
as it was once weak. We cheer and encourage her, and 
at' length the trembling limbs, for the first time in three 
years, bear her body across the floor. From this time on 
the recovery was rapid, and there has never been a relapse. 
No more hard-working woman can be found to-day than 
this long-time invalid. 30 
What brought about the cure in this case ? Masso- 
therapy and faith. 
The patient was conscientious in her belief that she 
could not walk, and while she believed this she was power- 
less. But a better circulation of blood, better nutrition of 
the muscles, and faith in a wonderful remedy (something 
that really is used in Paris hospitals in such cases), gave 
hope, courage and strength, and thus wrought a cure. 
What the original trouble may have been that kept 
this woman in bed, we never learned ; this trouble had 
evidently vanished long before, and in its place was a 
trouble just as potent for harm, namely, weak muscles 
and a fixed idea that she could not walk. 
It is our opinion that there are many similar cases 
that might be cured by massotherapy alone. 
We are nothing if not practical, and we shall take the 
liberty accorded physicians to here give a practical hint 
to husbands with over-worked and tired wives. 
Try this experiment. 
Get up in the morning early. Bring your wife before 
she rises a glass of hot milk with a pinch of salt in it, or 
a small cup of clear coffee, or a cup of hot cocoa. The 
first is preferable, as it is both stimulating and a nourish- 
ment. Then, while she is still covered with a sheet or 
thin blanket, give her a ten or twenty minutes treatment 
with the muscle roller (see later page) or the hands, until 
every strained nerve and tired muscle in her body is in a 
glow. If this treatment is inspired by pure affection and 
is accompanied by kind words, we are certain that it 
will wonderfully lessen the wife’s daily burden of work 
and worry. 31 
SELF - APPLICATION. 
We must now speak briefly of massage applied by the 
individual to himself, as this will perhaps be the largest 
class of cases that will employ it. 
The same principles of treatment and methods of 
application as described in the foregoing pages are to be 
followed in the self-application of massage. 
Practically, however, it will be oftenest used in self- 
treatment for abdominal troubles. Here kneading and 
tapping by the hands (or, very much better, the abdom- 
inal rolling to be described), is simply indispensable. We 
know of nothing that has so prompt and powerful an 
effect on the functions of the stomach and intestines as 
massage ; and for dyspepsia, jaundice, biliousness, consti- 
pation, etc., should be practised each day, morning and 
night. 
Now, if massage is to be made practical for the people 
who will read this book, we must speak of certain diffi- 
culties attending the massage treatment and show how to 
overcome them. 
When we have recommended massage by hand manip- 
ulations, many of our patients have objected to the neces- 
sary exposure of the skin. The exposure need only be 
of a small portion of the body at a time ; but even this 
is disagreeable. Again, certain persons of a nervous tem- 
perament find the direct friction of the skin that is neces- 
sary in hand massage, irritating, instead of soothing. In 
these cases the dislike grows from day to day, instead of 
getting less. 32 
Again, hand massage is extremely fatiguing to the one 
who administers it. We have never found any form of 
physical work more exhausting than to give a quick and 
thorough massage treatment. Those who make a business 
of this art, professional masseurs, do not expect to treat 
more than two or three patients per day; for which, of 
course, they are well paid. The amateur, the novice, who 
wishes to apply this treatment to an invalid friend or to 
use it in self-treatment, will not long care to keep up the 
attempt, owing to the fatigue that results. 
MASSAGE APPLIANCES. 
To meet these and other objections, several appliances 
have been devised for use in self-treatment, substitutes in 
a measure for hand manipulation. 
The first and perhaps the most useful of these instru- 
ments is called a massage-roller or muscle-roller. 
THE MUSCLE ROLLER. 
This consists of a series of maple or boxwood wheels 
on a flexible axle. The wheels are an inch and a half in 
diameter, and three to six in number. The peculiarity 
about each wheel, and the device that makes the instru- 
ment so very beneficial, is that around the central rim of 
each wheel is a specially prepared solid rubber buffer. 
This buffer is made of pure gum, is elastic and yet very 33 
firm. Thus each wheel corresponds to the pulp end of 
one of the fingers. Now, with a series of these wheels on 
a flexible axle, set in a suitable handle, we have an instru- 
ment very similar in its effects upon the tissues to the 
fingers of the human hands. It has, however, this great 
advantage over the hands, that the wheels roll, and thus 
avoid undue friction of the skin. 
It is this avoidance of friction that makes the appli- 
cation of massotherapy so much easier for the attendant 
when the muscle roller is used than when the hand is in 
contact with the skin. In the latter case much of the 
force is expended in overcoming the friction between the 
surfaces. But with the roller, there is little friction of the 
skin, and nearly all the force is expended in deep pressure 
on muscles, nerves and tissues generally. A novice with 
the roller can work for an hour, changing occasionally 
from hand to hand, with but little fatigue ; while without 
the roller, fifteen or twenty minutes rapid and vigorous 
massage will be a fatiguing effort. 
Then, too, the muscle roller is used without any ex- 
posure of the patient, as it produces as much effect when 
applied over a sheet, or the patient’s cotton or woolen 
undergarments, as when used on the bare skin. Owing 
to the elasticity of the rubber, the running of the wheels 
over bony parts of the body causes no pain, and the instru- 
ments can be used over joints, on the neck, head or face, 
not only without discomfort, but with positive pleasure. 
The interval or space between each wheel allows the 
tissues to be crowded up between the buffers, and thus 
gives a slight lateral or pinching compression, as well as a 34 
direct perpendicular pressure, much as though the flesh 
had been gently squeezed between the fingers. 
As to the manner of using the muscle roller consider- 
able may be said. When used by an attendant upon 
another person, it should be rolled back and forth over a 
certain part for a time, and then the direction changed 
so as to roll as nearly as possible at right angles to the 
former direction. 
In all the self-treatments the operator will usually 
grasp the instrument with both hands, instead of by the 
handle, with a single hand. It can be applied to any part 
of the body in self-treatment except a space between the 
shoulders. This region may be reached by the muscle 
beaters. 
The muscle roller is to be used in all those affections 
for which massotherapy has been advised in preceding 
pages. 
In neuralgia it brings almost immediate relief from 
pain, and ultimately secures a cure. It acts by stretching 
the affected nerve slightly, and by stimulating the circula- 
tion of blood through them. It may be used on the head, 
neck or face; and along the back over the terminations 
of the nerves and down the thigh when the sciatic nerve 
is affected. 
In nervous headaches the instrument is invaluable. 
The muscle roller may also be used for the correction 
of digestive disorders. Its use over the stomach and 
intestines stimulates the nerve forces of these organs, and 
increases their natural rythmical action. Thus chronic 35 
'Constipation, where for years there has been no action 
without drugs, is quickly and radically cured. If dys- 
pepsia be present, one drinks a glass of hot or cold water 
an hour before meals, and then by rolling the stomach, 
churns up its contents until every particle of fermenting 
slime and catarrh is loosened and carried away, leaving 
the stomach fresh and sweet. This is the only rational 
cure for the disease. 
In using the roller over the abdomen, one grasps the 
instrument at the sides with both hands and I'olls it up 
and down for a time, then across from right to left, and 
reverse. For constipation, particular attention should be 
given to the colon or large intestine. Beginning at the 
groin on right side, the operator presses inward with a 
quick digging motion. In this manner work slowly up 
the right side, then across over the stomach and then 
4own on the left side. Repeat several times. 
If we say more about the muscle roller, it will be 
thought that this is a hobby of ours. And so, indeed, it 
is, for we have found from experience that the amateur, 
with the muscle roller, gets far more satisfactory results 
than would be possible without it. And we have also 
found that the amateur without a proper instrument soon 
loses enthusiasm and gives up the treatment. 
It occurs to us that if any one cannot procure a muscle 
roller such as described, a passable one might be improvised 
cut of a wringing-machine roller and a suitable handle. 36 
MUSCLE BEATERS. 
Muscle beating corresponds to tapotement or pounding 
by the fingers and hands. It is used ordinarily in self- 
treatment as a supplement to muscle rolling. A treatment 
by the muscle roller may, with great advantage, be ended 
by a short, rapid and stimulating use of the beater. 
It is particularly useful to treat that part of the back 
between the shoulders, a part very hard to reach with the 
roller. It is also very useful to treat the soles of the feet, 
to stimulate the circulation there. Thus it will cure a 
common trouble. 
In cases of paralysis or partial paralysis, the beater is 
better than any other single form of treatment. And also 
in neurasthenia or weakness of the central nervous system, 
the beater may be used over the spine with great benefit. 
For lumbago and most forms of rheumatism, gentle 
percussion, alternating with rolling and the application of 
warm compresses, will usually afford prompt relief. 
ABDOMINAL ROLLER AND PERCUSSION BALLS. 
When it conies to the treatment of the abdominal 
organs—stomach, liver, intestines, etc.—we find the Ab- 
dominal Roller and Percussion Balls extremely useful 
and quite as effective as hand massage. Their use over 
the intestines stimulates the nerve forces of these organs, 
promotes secretion of the digestive fluids and increases 
the natural rythmical action. Thus we can improve, not 
merely stimulate, the digestive powers. 37 
The instrument should be carried up and down for a 
time, then across from right to left, and reverse. This 
should be followed by an application over the colon in the 
following manner. The roller is held in both hands, and 
the treatment is commenced by pressing firmly against 
the abdomen at the lower part on the right side, over the 
origin of the colon. The operator pushes the instrument 
upwards for two or three minutes with a quick digging 
motion. Repeat this several times in one spot, and then 
move the instrument upwards for an inch and give the 
same treatment. Continue this method over the whole 
course of the colon, ending on the left side with down- 
ward pushing motions. 
If the operator is taking a self-treatment, the same 
directions should be followed. The weight of the roller 
supplies the necessary pressure in self-treatment, without 
making the ball too large to reach into the margins of the 
abdominal cavity. 
In affections of the liver (congestion, torpor, etc.), 
massotherapy is especially indicated. This organ, it may 
be mentioned, lies on the right side, behind and extend- 
ing partly below the ribs. The lower portion only can be 
reached by the hands or by rolling ; but by stimulating 
the abdominal circulation we indirectly stimulate circula- 
tion through the liver. In percussion, however, we have 
a most effective means of improving the activity of this 
organ. 38 
SOME FURTHER SUGGESTIONS. 
The smaller muscle rollers are well adapted for use on 
the face and neck. Facial massage by the hand as usually 
applied, acts mostly on the skin and not on the tissues- 
beneath. The roller promotes the growth of the deeper 
tissues, and at the same time the skin gets sufficient stimu- 
lation to give it the freshness and glow of health. Thin 
cheeks and scrawny necks detract from any one’s appear- 
ance. “The curved line is the line of beauty.” It is 
scarcely an exaggeration to say that the most meagre out- 
lines can be changed into rounded and youthful forms by 
a few weeks’ use of this instrument. 
Another use for the muscle roller is to promote the 
growth of the hair. Brushing with a stiff brush is very 
likely, when the hair is thin, to irritate the scalp and do 
more harm than good. Throw a cloth or a coarse towel 
over the head and then, holding the roller with both 
hands, give the scalp a thorough kneading and rolling. 
This will increase the circulation and improve nutrition in 
the hair bulbs; and is certain to do the hair more good 
than all the preparations ever compounded. 
In the treatment of Sprains, Lameness, Stiff Joints, 
Swellings, etc., the directions for applying massage are so- 
similar that they may be given under one head. The 
treatment begins with gentle rubbing or rolling; and, if 
there is considerable tenderness, the point of injury should 
be gradually approached. In a few days, as the tender- 39 
ness and swelling grow less, the manipulation should be 
more thorough, and the affected joints treated with light 
percussion and passive movements. 
For Constipation, massotherapy can be very successfully 
used in self-treatment. We have spoken at some length 
on this phase of the subject and hardly need to dwell 
upon it longer. This trouble is a common one among a 
very large class of people who are not by any means 
invalids, and yet who are not in perfect health. The 
intestines in these people will not act properly without a 
stimulant of some kind, either by drugs taken internally, 
or by fluid injected into the colon. 
Now most people, and rightly too, object to having 
the colon and intestines dependent on any form of internal 
stimulation, for they realize that the trouble “ grows by 
what it feeds upon,” that the strength of the stimulant or 
the amount of irritation has to be increased, and at length 
the individual becomes a slave to the habit. To this nu- 
merous class of people we can offer assurance of a certain 
cure, provided they have patience and perseverance. 
If dyspepsia is not present, fruit, apples and oranges, 
should be eaten, especially in the morning. Coarse cereals 
and milk for breakfast; meat and vegetables at noon, 
and cereals at night. 
Then, morning and night, give the abdomen a treat- 
ment according to the directions already laid down. Fol- 
low this with a short tonic treatment with muscle roller 
and muscle beater and the result will be a gradual and 
decided increase of intestinal vigor. At the beginning of 
the treatment the colon should be thoroughly flushed 40 
with warm water every other night, until the movements 
are of a light natural color. Then an occasional flushing 
may be resorted to as the tone of the intestines is im- 
proved by the massage. 
One of the best aids to massotherapy in curing consti- 
pation is the use of wheat bran internally. This remedy 
is so cheap and simple that very few will even try it. 
It is to be taken uncooked, a teaspoonful with each 
meal. It may be stirred up with a little milk or water 
and swallowed, or eaten with the food. Its effects will not 
be seen immediately, but after a few days the constipation 
will be relieved. 
In Dyspepsia the rollers are simply invaluable. A glass 
of hot water upon rising in the morning, or as soon there- 
after as possible, should be followed immediately by a 
thorough rolling or kneading, which churns the water in 
the stomach so vigorously that all the sticky catarrh on 
the lining membrane of the stomach will be dislodged, 
and, together with every particle of undigested and fer- 
menting food, will be forced out of the stomach on its 
way to be excreted. The stomach will thus be left as fresh 
and rosy as a country school boy’s morning face. This 
treatment excels any form of bitters as an appetizer. 
Again in the evening this treatment should applied ; 
and if possible during the day. You remember the ex- 
periments mentioned on a preceding page, which proved 
that massage of the abdomen lessens, even in healthy 
persons, the time of digestion nearly one-third. We need 
hardly remind the dyspeptic, especially if an American, 
that his digestion is as much too slow as his manner of 41 
living is too fast, and that he might with advantage 
increase the former rate by massotherapy. 
There is an old but good story on this subject. At a 
public dinner a gentleman was telling a friend what trouble 
he had with his digestion. An enthusiastic believer in 
massage sitting opposite breaks in : 
“ I beg your pardon, sir! But do you knead your 
stomach ? ” 
“Do I need my stomach ? I have always supposed I 
did; but if it can be dispensed with I shall be most 
to do without it.” 
Before leaving this subject we must speak of the 
greatest luxury and tonic combined that it has ever fallen 
to mortal man or woman to experience. 
Suppose, dear reader, you wake up in the morning 
tired, too tired to rise and dress, perhaps lame and sore 
from some unusual exertion. We all have such mornings. 
If, now, you can prevail upon some friend or companion 
to take the muscle roller, and while you lie covered with 
a sheet, to go over you vigorously, up and down and 
across the back, then along the thighs, legs and arms, 
then the chest, and finally a thorough treatment of the 
abdomen. By that time there will not be an aching nerve 
or tired muscle in the body but tingles, and you will feel 
as vigorous as a well-groomed race horse. 
This is a real tonic, not an irritant, to the system ; a 
tonic well fitted to restore energy and life to many a sofa- 
bound invalid. 42 
ILLUSTRATIVE CASES. 
Somewhat over ten years ago the medical world was 
surprised at the remarkable results obtained in cases of 
nervous exhaustion and emaciation by a novel mode of 
procedure advocated by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, of Phila- 
delphia. The details of the treatment were given in his 
book, “ Fat and Blood, and How to Make Them,” which 
at once made its author famous. 
Dr. Mitchell began with several faded society ladies,, 
types of the “ half-invalids” who gradually lose tone and 
energy, and seem to resist all the ordinary means of recu- 
peration, such as rest, change of scene, etc. He first 
secured for them complete rest; in some cases keeping his 
patients continuously in bed. At the same time he grad- 
ually increased the diet. Ordinarily this increase of food 
(“forced feeding” as it is called), could not be appro- 
priated and would only embarrass the digestive organs. 
But here comes the essential point. From the first the 
patients were thoroughly massaged, once, twice or oftener 
a day. The results were most gratifying. In a few weeks 
minor ailments had departed, and the colorless, nerveless- 
invalids were restored to health and usefulness. 
The following case (one of several recorded in Dr. 
Mitchell’s book), is an example of the success of this 
treatment: 
“Miss C., aged twenty-six, passed through a grave trial in 
the shape of nursing her mother through a typhoid fever. Sooa 
after a series of calamities deprived her of fortune, and she 
became for support a clerk, and did for twTo years eight hours of 43 
work daily. Under these successive strains her naturally sturdy 
health gave way. First came the pain in the back, then growing 
paleness, loss of flesh and unending sense of tire. Her work, 
which was a necessity, w’as of course kept up, steadily at first, but 
soon she began to drop her wTork for a day at a time. Then came- 
an increasing asthenopia wdth evening headaches, until her temper 
changed and became capricious and irritable. When I saw her 
she had been forced to abandon all labor, and had been treated by 
an accomplished gynaecologist, despite which she gained nothing 
in vigor or endurance, and got back neither flesh nor color. 
“ She wTent to bed December lOtli and rose for the first time 
February 4th, having gained twenty-nine pounds. She went to 
bed pale and got up actually ruddy. In a month she returned to- 
iler work again, and has remained ever since in health, which en- 
ables her, as she writes me, ‘ to enjoy wrnrk and do with myself 
what I like.’ ” 
A somewhat similar case is described by Professor 
Playfair, of London : 
“ Tlie young lady suffered from intense hysterical vomiting 
which had commenced six years previously, after severe mental 
strain. Latterly she could keep nothing on her stomach but a 
single mouthful of milk, and this only when mixed with whiskeyr 
so that in this way she was taking three or four glasses of spirits 
daily. She was terribly emaciated, weighing only sixty-tliree 
pounds. Her mother wrote of her, ‘It is just live years last 
Christmas day since she lias retained a single meal. Her symp- 
toms have been most distressing and have resisted every kind of 
treatment. Her young life lias been completely blighted, and I 
have long since given up her case as hopeless.’ The rapidity of 
the cure in this instance, was almost ludicrous. In three days 
after she was isolated she was keeping down two quarts of milk,, 
and this no longer with the aid of whiskey. In ten days she was 
eating with an enormous appetite, and in six weeks she left weigh- 
ing one hundred and six pounds, a gain of forty-three pounds,, 
and has since remained quite well.” 44 
The following cases came under Dr. Douglas Graham’s 
personal care : 
“A case at present under my observation is that of a lady 
whose only twTo bright little children died two years ago. She has 
since been in great distress of mind and prostrated in body, and 
her sleep has been long, heavy and not refreshing. She has had 
general massage every other day for two months, and for the past 
month her sleep has been more natural, she exercises out of doors, 
is in better spirits, and takes her food with a relish.” 
Case of partial paralysis : 
“ Symptoms akin to those found in locomotor ataxia may be 
got rid of by means of massage, as the following case tends to 
show. Mr. P. H., 46 years of age, of slight, wiry frame, active 
and enduring, for several months before I called to see him, had 
suffered from weakness, numbness, feelings of constriction and 
incoordination of his legs, and was unable to stand on one leg and 
put on his sock as formerly. These symptoms all disappeared 
after seven applications of massage in three wreeks, following 
which he took two weeks’ vacation ; and after that he continued 
well for a year, walking to and from his place of business, a mile 
and a half each way, besides being about on his feet nearly all the 
time. At the end of a year the same symptoms returned, but to a 
less degree ; and they were accompanied by sweating of the limbs 
to an unusual amount. His family physician gave him atropia, 
which he only took for a short time. I gave the legs massage 
eighteen times in three weeks, and the muscles gained in size, tone 
and firmness. He has since, now twenty months, continued well 
-and active, and is on his feet all day.” 
Case of muscular rheumatism and lumbago : 
“Rev. E. B., an elderly gentleman, had been exposed to a 
draught of air on his back w'hile sleeping in a steamboat berth. 
This brought on severe lumbago. When I first saw him, three 
months afterwards, he complained of a constant dull, tired ache in 
the lumbar region, which made him prefer sitting to standing, and 45 
lying down to sitting up. Sleep was constantly disturbed by the 
backache. His muscles were of the kind that rapidly respond to 
massage, neither too hard nor too soft, nor deeply embedded in 
adipose. After twenty minutes of deep malaxation with percus- 
sion, the patient enjoyed a good night’s sleep, and next day stood 
up for three hours and wrote thirteen pages of a sermon. A few 
more applications of massage were given to confirm and improve 
what had been done, and the patient made an excellent recovery.” 
Cases of writers’ cramp. 
“A middle-aged gentleman, of vigorous constitution, a lawyer 
in extensive practice, was frequently obliged to employ an aman- 
uensis for several weeks at a time, in order to recover by rest the 
ability to use his pen. For the general weariness at such times, 
when he could, he had recourse to massage; and in treating him 
I gave the fingers, hand and arm thorough and special malaxation, 
with the result each time, after two sittings, of his being able the 
following day to resume his writing with ease. 
“ Miss M. L. had suffered for a year from writers’ and pianists’ 
cramp. She complained of pain in the arm, wrist and fingers, felt 
particularly on awakening. Upon playing the piano for five min- 
utes both arms are so tired and languid that she has to stop. She 
cannot write at all. During the first eight seances only gymnastics 
were used, but with no benefit. After this Dr. Wolff masseed both 
arms three times daily, half an hour at a time. The pain gradually 
disappeared. Then massage and gymnastics were combined, and 
after fourteen days more she was cured of her malady and could 
write and play on the piano continuously.” 
Case of severe sprain : 
“ Mr. C. A. had the structures on the anterior aspect of the 
left shoulder-joint severely stretched by the sail of his yacht in 
changing position, so that the whole weight of his body came 
suddenly upon them, while the arm was jerked upwards and back- 
wards. Professor David B. Cheever sent him to me three months 
after the accident. Under massage and vigorous passive motion 
he made a good recovery.” 46 
'Case of obstinate constipation : 
“ Several years ago the writer masseed a patient who suffered 
from emphysema of the lungs, together with obstinate constipa- 
tion. Besides general massage, there was given special massage of 
the abdomen and liver, with percussion over the latter and press- 
ure upon the chest walls during expiration. Under this treatment 
alone, the stools, from being of a pale color, became natural and 
occurred twice daily. Respiration was easier, sleep and appetite 
improved, and the general condition was much better.” 
The following cases are described in Dr. Murrell’s 
•book, “ Massotherapeutics”: 
“ A case of chronic myelitis [degeneration of the spinal cord] 
will serve to show the benefit which may sometimes be derived 
from a course of massage, even if very improperly carried out. 
The patient was a young clergyman, and his illness originated, it 
was supposed, from getting wet while riding across country one 
bitterly cold night to see a sick parishioner. When I first saw him 
he was lying on his back in bed, completely paralyzed from his 
waist downwards. He had no control of his legs, which were 
■drawn upward. He was racked with pain. Enemata had to be 
used whenever an action of the bowels was desired. There was 
impairment of sensation in both hands, and the breathing was 
irregular and spasmodic. 
“ He had been carefully examined by a distinguished authority 
on nervous diseases, who said that no treatment would be of the 
slightest avail. I took a more hopeful view of the case; and, after 
reducing the morphine, began with the constant current and mas- 
sage to the spine and legs twice a day. 
“ Considerable difficulty was experienced in finding anyone to 
carry out the necessary manipulations ; but at last a man was 
secured who, if not a masseur, was at all events a very good rub- 
ber. In a few weeks difficulties arose in consequence of the expense 
the rubbing and the treatment was suspended. About six 47 
months later I again saw the patient, who was still confined to his 
bed, and at my earnest solicitation massage was again resorted to. 
“ I saw nothing of my patient for over a year, when one morn- 
ing he walked into my office, the picture of health, and having 
almost perfect control of his legs. He told me that he had carried 
•out my treatment nearly the whole time to the best of his ability, 
and that he attributed his recovery to the measures which I had 
•suggested.” 
Case of nervous irritability and insomnia: 
“ Upon tlie nervous system as a whole massage exerts a pecu- 
liarly delightful, and at the same time profoundly sedative and 
tonic effect. In insomnia, general massage at bed-time undoubt- 
edly promotes sleep. Several cases have lately come under my 
•observation in which it has been resorted to with marked success. 
It has the great advautage over all narcotics that there are no 
■disagreeable after-effects. 
“ A short time ago a gentleman came under my care for treat- 
ment, having been sent by his brother, a well-known physician. 
Through the death of his partner he had the entire responsibility 
of a large business on his shoulders. He was of a highly nervous 
temperament, and he told me that when he went home he was 
always thinking about the work of the day, and was restless and 
disturbed at night. He was pale, worn and anxious looking, but 
was not suffering from any organic disease. At his brother’s 
request I prescribed massage. He was obliged to return home in 
•ten days, and could give me no more time. The massage was 
applied every night at bed-time for half an hour, and at the expira- 
tion of the time mentioned he was very much better, and was so 
satisfied with the result that he promised to return as soon as his 
business would permit for a more extended course of treatment.” 
Cases of rheumatism: 
“ A lady wlio had been a cripple for many years, came to me 
for relief of severe rheumatic pain in her joints. There was effu- 
sion in both knees, the first phalanges of the toes were bent up, the 
terminal phalanges bent down, and all the joints were swollen and 48 
painful. The patient could walk only a few steps with the greatest 
difficulty. The joints were masseed daily; and after twenty-five 
visits the exudation in the left knee had gone, there was only a 
little pain in the toes and metatarsal bones, and the patient could 
walk and get upstairs without difficulty. 
“ Another case was one of rheumatism of the intercostal 
[chest] muscles. The patient, a young man, was bent forward 
with pain, could hardly walk, and had great difficulty in breathing. 
Massage was very carefully performed, as the patient cried out on 
being touched. Gentle effleurage was essayed, and the pain and 
tenderness in half an hour were less acute. After another treat- 
ment the patient could breathe freely, and move his body back- 
wards and forwards without pain. In four days he was cured. 
“ Other cases of rheumatism, notably one in which the patient 
suffered from severe pain in the legs, caused by standing for sev- 
eral hours up to his hips in water, were successfully treated. One- 
lady, who had suffered for years from chronic articular rheuma- 
tism, recently told me that she derived more benefit from three 
weeks massage, which was carried out under my direction, than 
from all the drugs she had ever taken; and this is not by any 
means an exceptional experience.” 
The above eases are given as examples of what may be 
accomplished by massotherapy. We could multiply such 
cases by the hundred, but enough has been given to show 
that massotherapy may be made one of the most potent 
means known for the cure of chronic troubles. 
The writer hopes to live to see it a household remedy 
wherever sickness and suffering are found throughout this 
broad land, not alone as an aid in the cure of disease, but 
also as an aid in preserving health. Publishers’ Department 
and 
Long Life Advertiser. 
Dr. Forest’s “ New Method.”— 
We wish to call attention to the 
statements of some who have had 
experience in the use of the treat- 
ment given by Dr. Forest in his 
great work “ The New Method in 
their Cebtain Chbonic Diseases.” 
Hundreds of letters have been re- 
ceived by the author thanking him 
for knowledge given. 
Oshkosh-Wis., Sept. 1st, ’94. 
Mb. Albebt Tueneb, Manager 
Health-Cultube Co. 
Dear SirYou are very welcome 
to publish anything I may say in 
commendation of Dr. Forest’s work 
for I feel that I cannot say enough. 
My friends tell me Irma" crank ” 
on the subject; and 1 tell them I 
am, but why should I not be; from 
my earliest recollections I was 
always considered an invalid; al- 
though I would not allow people 
to call me such. I .could never do 
as other children because of ill 
health; then came a Bronchial 
trouble which seemed gradually to 
settle on my lungs. The doctors 
did all they could for me and then 
advised me to go to the moun- 
tains; we had relatives in the East 
so I went to the White Mountains 
and then returned home as every 
one supposed to die with consump- 
tion. A friend told me of this Hy- 
gienic treatment, and I sent for 
the book. It was a great relief I 
assure you to dispense with medi- 
cines. For three years I did not 
allow anything to interfere with 
the treatment; (and let me say 
right here, I think perseverance is 
necessary in any kind of treatment 
where the case is a chronic one). 
Now I consider myself well. 
I remain, respectfully yours, 
Aubelia J. Dodge. 
This letter from a lady in this 
city, a member of a physician’s 
family will be read with interest. 
New Yobk, Oct. 5th, ’94. 
Health Cultube Co. 
Gentlemen:—I have had an ob- 
stinate chronic diarrhoea of four 
years standing, complicated with 
an annoying catarrh of the bowels, 
attended with great weakness, 
causing much inconvenience night 
and day, necessitating complete 
isolation from society. 
At times the movement of the 
bowels attended with intense de- 
sire, would be accompanied with 
some seeming obstruction, that 
made the operation extremely dis- 
tressing. After a few mornings 
use of the treatment in accordance 
with instructions in Dr. Forest’s 
book “NewMethod,”the obstruc- 
tion disappeared, the bowels be- 
came normal, and remained quiet 
after e ch morning’s evacuation 
until the next morning—giving 
freedom for the day and undis- 
turbed sleep at night. The relief 
is inexpressible, and words cannot 
describe my gratitude for the 
knowledge derived from this work. 
I am very truly yours, 
Mbs. A. N. B. 
This great work will be sent by 
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in cloth, $2.10 Address this office. 50 
Weakness of the Lungs is 
always the basis for consumption, 
and this often comes through a 
lack of proper exercise, especially 
that which comes from the use of 
the lungs in deep breathing and 
forced expiration. This can best 
be secured by the use of the Wil- 
hide Exhalbh. 
Persons subject to hard colds or 
suffering from the results of an 
attack of pneumonia, pleurisy, 
bronchitis, influenza or la grippe 
and those who have shortness of 
breath or any form of throat 
trouble or weakness should read 
the description on another page, 
carefully. 
The use of this has also been 
found of great value by persons 
suffering from indigestion, weak- 
ness of the nerves and general 
debility. 
The following somewhat per- 
sonal letter from a clergyman we 
think so important as to justify its 
publication: 
Passaic, N. J., Oct. 11th, ’94. 
Dear Mr. TurnerIn the middle 
of January, this year, I was sent 
for to preach in a country town 
near here. I was entertained by 
one of the Supply Committee who 
had just finished repairing his 
house, and he placed me in a bed 
room newly plastered and without 
heat. He claimed that the plaster- 
ing was dry, but I soon found out 
that it was hard from cold and not 
from heat. However, sooner than 
hurt his feelings I slept there two 
nights and* returned home with a 
cold that resisted every effort to 
dislodge it. It seemed to me as if 
my public speaking was at an end. 
After suffering six months of 
more, I met you on the train and 
you told me of the benefits to be 
derived from the “Exhaler.” A 
few days later I received one and 
at once went to work to use it ac- 
cording to directions. In a week’s 
time I experienced a marked im- 
provement, as I was free from the 
racking cough which previously 
had not permitted me to sleep 
much more than half an hour at a 
time. I persisted in the use of the 
“ Exhaler,” abandoning the use of 
all medicine, except perhaps a 
bronchial troche once in a while, 
and now I am glad to state, that 
I am entirely well and have been 
so for over two months. I am sat- 
isfied from my own experience 
that a persistent use of the “ Ex- 
haler ” according to directions will 
accomplish every thing it is de- 
signed for. Of course it will not 
make new lungs or new bronchial 
tubes, for it has not yet been given 
to humanity to do the work of the 
Almighty, but wherever there are 
lungs or bronchial tubes it will 
repair them so they will be as 
good as new. 
Fraternally Yours, 
Geo. F. Swain. 
The following letter from a phy- 
sician will be read with interest: 
Grimall Iowa, 
Sept. 20th, ’94 
Dear SirsTwo months ago I 
ordered a Wilhide Exhaler. 
Have been testing it myself. 
Thought I was well when I began 
using it but now in the words of 
patent medicine “ I feel like a new 
man.” Do you make any discount 
to the trade or physician ? Would 
like one for my wife and one for 
a brother. 
It is the best tonic I know of; if 
we could get people to use them 
they would require much less 
medicine. 
Will prescribe for my patients 
when indicated. 
Yours truly, 
E. C. Bliss, M. D. 
The use of the Wilhide Exhal- 
er has been found to be the very 
bestjremedy for colds. It will be 
sent by mail postpaid for $1.50- 
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The Muscle Rollers.—The fol- 
lowing letter speaks out strongly, 
but none too strong in favor of the 
use of Dr. Forest’s Health or Mas- 
sage Boilers. 
Louisville, Ky. 
Mb. Albert Turner, New York. 
Dear Sir:—About two months 
ago my father, \V. B. Greer, of 
Charleston, S. 0., who is fifty-two 
years old, purchased a Muscle 
Boiler from you, and having used 
it for two months for stomach 
trouble, said it had done him a 
world of good 
I visited Charleston about two 
weeks ago, and found him in bet- 
ter health than for many years 
past, which we attribute to the use 
of the Boiler, and I think when 
once it is well known, it will prove 
a boon to suffering humanity, 
While on the visit to Charleston 
I used the Muscle Boiler and at 
the end of ten days felt more relief 
from chronic dyspepsia than with 
two years use of drugs, admin- 
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Inclosed you will find P. O. Or- 
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your earliest convenience the No. 
1 size, and oblige 
Yours respectfully, 
W. L. Greer. 
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The use of these has been found 
very effective in restoring the 
plumpness of the face, neck and 
bust es well as other parts of the 
body, besides contributing to the 
general health and strength. 
The “Long Life” Series.-This is 
the second number of a Series in 
which is to be published a number 
of practical manuals of Health, 
which we are confident will prove 
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The diastatic dough is subsequen- 
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the Sexual Functions tlieir Causes 
and Cure. A very valuable work 
on this important subject. 50c. 
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every boy. By B. P. Miller, M.D. 
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Catching Cold 
All about bow not to do it, by Chas. E. Page, M. D., with 
portrait and sketch, of the author, 10 cents. 
This is the best thing Dr. Page has written and should be 
read by all who find themselves liable to “Take Cold.” 
It will save you from attacks of Grippe, Pneumonia, Catarrh 
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pation, Torpid Liver and Obesity, a compilation of latest medi- 
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Health Books 
BY DR. GEO. H. TAYLOR. 
The following books while of special value to all chronic 
invalids, are of almost universal importance, and should be 
read by every one interested in improved methods for the re- 
lief and cure of suffering humanity. 
MASSAGE; PRINCIPLES and Practice of Remedial Treatment by 
Imparted Motion. 2 vols. 
PROCESS OF MANUAL MASSAGE. Cloth 75 cents; postage 8 cents. 
PROCESS OF MECHANICAL MASSAGE, showing its Adaption to the 
Cure of "Various Chronic Affections. 75c.; postage, 8c. 
These books are more extended expositions of both the 
manual and mechanical processes. The latter shows how to use 
common mechanical power, which is abundant and cheap, and 
everywhere attainable, to remedy the most difficult chronic 
diseases, after other remedies have proved insufficient. 
HEALTH BY EXERCISE. 12mo., 408 pages, with numerous illus- 
trations, cloth $1.00; postage 10 cents. 
A book that both healthy people and invalids will profit in 
reading. It treats the question of exercise in its relation to 
health in a scientific yet popular manner. 
HEALTH FOR WOMEN. 249 pages, clo., 7oc.; postage, 5c. 
“If Dr. Taylor’s work should find its way into every school 
and family, it probably would do more for the health of women 
and of the next generation than any other measure that can be 
urged.’’—Catharine E. Beecher. 
PARALYSIS. Paralysis and other Affections of the Nerves ; 
their cure by transmitted energy and special movements. 
12mo., 179 pages, cloth, 75 cents ; postage, 7 cents. 
PELVIC AND HERNIAL THERAPEUTICS. Principles and Methods 
for Remedying Chronic Affections of the Lower Part of the 
Trunk, including processes for self-cure. 12mo., cloth, 
$1.00 ; postage, 10 cents. 
This book points out the causes of pelvic diseases of every 
form and degree, and explains why ordinary methods of treat- 
ment so often result in failure. It describes in detail, improved 
methods of treatment which, although mainly new to the pro- 
fession, are found to be in perfect harmony with well-known 
anatomical and physiological laws. 
The Health-Culture Co., 30 E. 14th St, New York 60 
BATH & FLESH HEALTH BRUSHES. 
f As a means of preventing colds by seasoning 
as it were, the skin, so that it is not susceptible to 
sudden changes there is nothing equal to the use of 
a properly made Flesh Brush. 
These should be used in the bath, but especially 
in the daily air bath or rub so highly recommended. 
On the following page will be found illustrations 
of peculiarly constructed hair brushes that are 
considered in many ways the best made for this 
purpose. 
As will be seen there are various shapes and 
styles, those specially adapted to the dry rub and 
the full wet bath. 
Every person should have and use daily a set 
of these, bringing as they will a rosy, healthy glow 
to the skin and life and health to the system. 
Do not use the cheap flimsy brushes sold at 
some of the stores, but send for a brush that you 
can depend on and one that the use of will do yon 
good. 
Sent by mail, post paid, on receipt of prices. 
Address 
THE HE4LTH-CIILTVKE CO., 
30 E. 14th Street, SEW WORK. HEALTH BRUSHES. 
61 
CAN BE USED WET OR DRY. 
No. 32, PRICE $1.00. 
2 ROWS. 
F°B WET. ORDRyT 
No. 44, PRICE $1.25. 
DETACHABLE HANDLE 
REVERSA8LE 
No. 67, PRICE 75 CENTS. 
No. 88, PRICE 65 CENTS, 
COMPLEXION BRUSH 
Address, THE HEALTH-CULTURE CO , 30 EAST I4TH STREET, NEW YORK 
No. 65, 40 CENTS. 
PRICE 75 CENTS. 62 
From Weakness to Strength. 
Massage is the treatment for all the functional troubles like dyspepsia, 
constipation, jaundice, biliousness, nerve exhaustion, debility, emaciation, 
neuralgia, rheumatism, paralysis, etc., etc. It is no less important a meas- 
ure for preserving health than for curing disease, giving tone and elasticity 
to the system. 
The object of the Health and Massage Roller is to make massage practical 
to bring into the home the easiest and pleasantest methods of cure and ex- 
ercise. It can be used with little fatigue by oneself or by an attendant, and 
entirely with out exposure or even undressing, and avoids what is often so 
unpleasant, the hand touch of the operator. 
With the Roller there is practically no friction, and the force is spent 
where it should be, on the deeper structure and organs, such as the 
stomach, liver and intestines, on muscles and nerves. The quickly inter- 
mitting pressure from the Rubber of the Roller drives along rapidly and 
vigorously the blood within the tissues, and thus hastens those cell changes 
on which life and health depend. 
A reliable treatment is this for cold feet; to bring the blood from con- 
gested brain ; to take the sense of fatigue and languor out of tired and stiff- 
ened muscles at bed time. 
Its use over the intestines stimulates the nerve forces of these organs and 
increases their natural action. Thus chronic constipation, where for years 
there has been no action without drugs, is quickly and radically cured, 
Rheumatism, Sciatica, and Paralysis often yield most readily to this treat- 
ment. For sleeplessness their use by oneself or an attendant will be found 
an efficient remedy, and used by anyone for a few minutes before retiring 
will secure more restful sleep. 
THE DEVELOPERS. 
These are scientific instruments for a rapid and healthy development 
of the face, neck and bust, and other parts of the body. The re-* 
suits obtained by their use are truly marvelous. Thin cheeks, scrawny necks 
and flat busts can be changed into rounded and youthful forms, hands and 
arms are made plump and limbs and calves filled out. By their use the 
lungs are strengthened and the entire chest enlarged and the whole form 
improved. Natures healthful method only is employed. Dr. Dio Lewis states 
that he has seen thin breasts more than doubled in size in a month by this 
treatment. Ten minutes use will give the cheeks the glow of youth that 
will last for hours. The flesh hardens, the skin becomes soft and flexible 
and there is a rapid and healthy development of tissue. 
The Manual of Massotheropy by Dr. E. W. Forest is presented with each 
Roller giving directions for their use in various forms of disease. 
Very full and complete directions are furnished with each Developer. 
The HEALTH-CULTURE CO., Manufacturers, 
30 East 14th Street NEW YORK. 63 
Health and massage Rollers and .Developers. 
These rollers, the invention of Dr. W. E. 
Forest, consist of a series of wheels, about 1 Ms, 
in. in diameter, on an axle, around the center 
of each is a band or buffer of elastic rubber. 
The Developers are made 
of Central American woods, 
highly polished in natural 
colors. The wheels ebony 
and covered with a softfgum 
buffer and cannot cause any 
pain or injury. 
No. 1. With wide 
piece of locust and 
or black walnut all 
This is very strong 
with one or both 
stomach and bow- 
and is the best for 
secure vigorous 
buffers, the cr 
handle of rose wi 
highly polish* 
and can be u 
hands over the ba 
els, and on the lii: 
I general use and 1 
! muscular tissue. 
No. 3, Face 
This is used 
the cheeks, 
give color,to 
wrinkles 
forehead,in- 
of neck, and 
massage to 
ing of the 
Developer. 
to develop 
fill out and 
remove 
from the 
crease size 
for head 
prevent fall- 
hair. 
PRICE, 
$2.00. 
PRICE, 
$1.50. 
No. 4, Bust V Developer. 
This is used I for the en- 
largement H of the breasts 
and may be used for the 
neck, and if Ha lightly over 
the entire HI body, and by 
its use any part may be 
developed yiaiid made 
plump and vigorous. 
Ladies once B using, prize 
them high “ ly, and every 
lady should have a pair. 
No. 2. Frame and 
maple, light but 
ted for small women 
not strong, and 
quite weak can use 
selves] with very 
Many for 
handle of white 
strong, well adap- 
and those who are 
invalid who are 
this on them- 
great advantage, 
best results. 
PRICE, 
$1.50. 
PRICE, $2.50. 
The Health-CultureCo., 30 East 14th Street, New York. 65 
MISS JFANC BIS It has been an invalid for nearly thirty years, and learning that 
she was using the Rollers advantageously, asked for her opinion and received the above 
letter. 
Some of our readers will remember about Miss Rancher’s in Jury, As she was get- 
ting out of a horse car in Brooklyn, her dress was caught in a hook on the platform, 
and she was dragged a block before the conductor noticed her. The accident occured 
in June, and the 3rd of February after that she was seized with frightful spasms and 
became paralyzed. She lived in a trance for nine years. Since which time she has 
gradually regained her powers but has been confined to her bed for twenty-nine years 
and her lower limbs and feet are still paralyzed. As stated in her letter she finds the 
Rollers very useful. In all cases of partial paralysis, rheumatism, sciatica and as a means 
of promoting the circulation of the blood, the Roller is found to be of great service, 
and used as directed over the stomach and bowels in cases of indigestion and consti- 
pation is often a positive cure. 
If you have an invalid friend order one as a present. 
All orders should be addressed to 
The Health-Culture Co., 30 E. 14th St., New York. 66 
CATARRH CURED. 
Antiseptic Vaseline Treatment. 
Introduced successfully by Dr. W. E. Forest in his practice 
and through his work the “New Method” to thousands of 
families in all parts of the country, and is we may safely say, the 
oaly rational method of treatment for catarrh. 
THE VASELINE SPRAY, 
a recent invention, 
is one of the great- 
est advancements of 
the age for the treat- 
ment of diseases of 
the nasal passages, 
throat and lungs. 
By this little instru- 
ment all ordinary 
catarrhs can be cur- 
ed at home at a 
trifling expense. It’s THE VASELINE SPRAY, 
use will absolutely break up a recent cold in twenty-four hours, 
and give immediate relief to the obstructed nasal passages in 
such cases. The medicated vaseline can be applied by this 
instrument to any passages which inspired air can reach, as 
the remedy is discharged from the instrument as light and fine 
as smoke. We need no more than refer to the healing, soothing 
qualities of vaseline. When this it combined with the antisep- 
tic and astringent medicinal remedies, we have an instrument 
and remedy that cannot be equaled for the treatment of the 
nasal passages and the throat. 
We are now sending this remedy safely in the new patent 
mailing cases to all parts of the country. 
The Vaseline Spray and a Bottle of the Remedy (Vaseline, 
Menthol and Thymol), will be sent post paid for $2.15. 
Address THE I1EALTII-CULTDRE CO., 30 East 14thSt, New York. 67 
“ The New Method’> 
In Health and Disease, by W. E. Fobest, B. S., M. D., Fellow of N. Y. 
Academy of Medicine; Member of Medical Society of County of N. Y., 
and N. Y. Medical Union. Eleventh Edition, Kevised and Enlarged to 
270 Pages. Price, $2.00, by mail, $2.10. 
Written for the public by a well-known practical physician, and em- 
bodies the results of many years of study, experiment and observation, 
just as important in directing one how to preserve health, as to cure 
disease. 
PARTIAL SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS: 
Dyspepsia—Causes.—The difference between relieving it and curing 
it.—Striking at the root of the trouble.—Foul Stomach,—Cleanse it 
thoroughly.—Fermentation.—What to eat.—Illustrative Cases. 
Jaundice and Billiousness, Treatment.—Getting the Liver “in 
chancery.” 
Constipation.—Radical cure.—Habit.—Diet.—Abdominal Rolling.— 
Sir Andrew Clark’s Hygienic treatment. 
Kidney Disease.—Cause.—The Kidneys “the scape goat” of the 
other organs.—What s to be done ?—Remove the burdens.—How to do it. 
—Diet. 
Nervousness and Nerve Exhaustion an American disease.—How to 
overcome the tendency.—“ How to rizzle.”—Natures healthful morphine. 
—Food.—Bathing.—Insanity caused by the absorption of intestinal fer- 
ment.—How cured. 
Pelvic Troubles in Females.—The conditions.—Causes.—Chronic 
starvation.—How to quickly and surely overcome these tendencies.— 
Marvellous results.—Novel and common-sense Methods.—Typical cases 
of Cure. 
Incipient Consumption.—3,000,000 die annually from Consumption 
in civilized countries.—A preventable disease.—Make the weak parts 
strong.—Treatment of this trouble.—Don t try to stop a cough.—Try to 
cure the disease. 
Headache.—By one of its victims.—How to prevent headaches.— 
How to cut them short when started. 
Chronic and Acute Rheumatism.—Causes.—Diet.—Plan of treatment. 
Emaciation.—The standard of weight to height.—How to increase 
the weight safely.—Liquids.—What to eat to get fat.—How Colonel Mc- 
Caul’s attempts to get thin worked backwards. 
Corpulence.—It worked both ways.—The function of fat in the ani- 
mal economy.—The little needed.—How to burn up the excess.—Bis- 
mark’s results.—What to avoid.—Ebstein’s system. 
SENT BY MAIL ON RECEIPT OF PRICE. 
Address, Health-Culture Co., 30 East 14th St,, New York. ABDOMINAL ROLLER 
PERCUSSION BALLS. 
Outside of ball. 
Showing shot. 
Patent applied for. 
Metal parts nickel-plated ; 
hard wood handle. 
Patent applied for. 
3J4 inches in diameter. 
The Abdominal Roller illustrated above consists of an iron ball, 
five pounds in weight, turning in a swivel which revolves in its 
wooden handle. Balls of various kinds are sometimes employed in 
abdominal massage ; but by supplying a handle this device removes 
the difficulties attending their use. 
The Roller may be used with benefit in all weak or inactive 
conditions of the digestive organs. The results from its use are 
practically the same as follow manual massage ; and it has the great 
advantage that it may be used by the patient himself. The weight of 
the iron ball supplies the necessary pressure in self application. 
The purely nervous or “reflex” effects accomplished by percus- 
sion can be secured by use of the Percussion Balls illustrated above. 
They are made of extra quality of rubber, of proper size to be easily 
held, are air-tight, and contain a quantity of lead shot. Each stroke, 
therefore, is doubled, the shock penetrates further, and is more 
agreeable than that from the unaided hand. Simple constipation is 
frequently relieved by this form of massage alone. Percussion is 
also very successful in treating torpid liver, and is not open to the 
objections against the use of medicine for this condition. 
While intended for use over the liver and bowels, the Percussion 
Balls are as well adapted for general treatment. 
To the nurse and also to the trained masseur, these appliances are 
a valuable aid, as they save fatigue and are agreeable to the patient. 
Even with a careful operator the skin and superficial muscles are 
often rendered sore, and the manipulations have to be interrupted. 
These devices may be used over the clothing, and will not cause sore- 
ness or abrasion, as there is little or no friction of the skin — nearly 
all the force is expended on the deeper organs and tissues. 
£3?” Write for large circular. 
Abdominal Roller, $3.00 
Percussion Balls, per pair, - - - - 1.50 
WITH FULL DIRECTIONS FOR USE. 
MASSAGE APPLIANCE CO., 10 Reade St., New York. 69 
<1 CORDED HEALTH WAISTS,> 
Best for Health, Comfort and Beauty. Beautifully 
Corded—Superior Shape. Best Material 
Used Throughout. 
Points of Excellence. 
BUTTONS FRONT intead of clasps, 
thereby avoiding the injurious stiff 
steels in ordinary corsets. 
CLAMP BUCKLE at hip to secure 
Hose Supporters. 
CORDS are placed in a special man- 
ner for stiffening instead of Bones, 
thereby leaving the garment pliable 
and flexible throughout. 
SHOULDER STRAPS are adjust- 
able, and being curved and broad at 
the back, are comfortable, support- 
ing the skirts and stockings di- 
rectly from the shoulders, 
which support is very essen- 
tial to health. 
SUPERIOR SHAPE. 
These corsets are not made 
after any “French Pat- 
terns,” but are made to 
conform to the natural 
beauty of the figure, and 
with regard to the most ap- 
proved rules of health. 
CAN BE WASHEDwithout 
losing the shape or causing 
any damage. 
For ladies of medium form 
—long waist, this is a beau- 
tiful garment. Made in white 
and drab, of Superior Qual- 
ity, with Pearl Buttons, 19 
to 36 inches. $2.00; Mailing, 
10 cents extra. 
Ladies’ Corded Health Waist. 
Address all orders to The HEALTH-CULTURE CO., 
30 East 14th Street, NEW YORK. 70 
ITHE* 
HEALTH-CULTURE CO., 
30 EAST 14th STREET, NEW YORK, 
Is a consolidation of “The Health Publishing Co.,” “The New 
Methods Co.,” “The New Treatment Co.,” “The Health Supplies 
Co.” “The Star Exerciser Co.,” “The Health Publication Co.,” 
the publishing business of W. E. Forest, M.D.,andthe “Fletcher 
Hygienic Underwear,” conducted by Miss E. 0. Page. 
All the interests represented by the above will be continued 
by the new company and many new and important features 
added, at the new office which is very centrally located at No. 
30 East 14th Street, but a few doors from Broadway. 
Health=Culture 
Is a new journal of, practical hygiene, issued quarterly, at 50 
cents a year, or 15 cents a number. 
CATALOGUE of Health Supplies, including Health or 
Massage Rollers, Exhalers, Exercisers, Hygienic Underwear for 
men, women and children, Health Books, etc., will be issued 
and sent to any address on application. 
Mr. Albert Turner, the Business Manager, who was for 
many years Business Manager and Treasurer of the Fowler & 
Wells Co., will be glad to see his old friends and all interested 
in the subject of Health-Culture at his new office at any time, 
and to fill orders for any periodicals, books, charts,etc. that may 
be desired. All orders should be sent to 
Tlie Health-Culture Co., 
30 EAST 14TH STREET 
NEW YORK. 71 
Healtb Underwear 
FOR WOHEir AID CHILDREN. 
Never was so much attention being given to the relation of 
DRESS to HEALTH, as to-day, and intelligent, thoughtful women 
are now realizing that the results of wearing corsets and tight 
lacing are very injurious, and small waists are no longer fashion- 
able. A lady of artistic education, desiring health, comfort and 
usefulness, no longer is vain of a wasp-like waist. A city dress- 
maker with a large and fashionable patronage says: “Fifteen 
years since, the average size of the waist of my customers from all 
parts of the United States, was twenty and twenty-two inches, 
while now from the same classes, the average size at the belt is 
from twenty-six to thirty inches, and this means greatly increas- 
ed health and strength, as well, beauty and symmetry of form and 
feature.’’ 
It is an encouraging sign that there is a steadily growing demand 
for HEALTH WAISTS, which serve the purpose and avoid the dis- 
advantages of the regular made corsets. 
Having purchased from Miss E. C. Page, sole representative 
of “MRS. A. FLETCHER,’ the old established “LADIES’ AND CHIL- 
DREN’S HYGIENIC UNDERWEAR” business we are prepared to fill all 
orders for 
FLETCHER HYGIENIC UNDERWEAR, 
with many newly devised articies, including all the recent improve- 
ments that have been made. 
A very full and complete catalogue of HEALTH UNDERWEAR 
for WOMEN and CHILDREN will be sent on application with 
stamp for postage. Address all letters to 
THE HEALTH-CULTURE CO., 
3© East 14H& Street, ifEW yqrk. 72 
:A - J Pll ACTICAI.: HYGIENE 
No subject is more worthy of universal attention 
than that of maintaining the highest possible degree of 
vigor of body and of mind—Health. 
HEALTH-CULTURE is devoted to this, and 
presents to its readers the teachings of the best author- 
ities on the subject, with the latest discoveries and 
methods for the restoration and preservation of Health, 
including the physical culture of children, that they 
may grow to maturity with strong vigorous bodies. 
A special feature is made of preventive measures in 
relation to the various diseases to which the people are 
subject, and Health-Culture for the Home. 
HEALTH-CULTURE is not issued in the in- 
terest of a medical practice, or as an advertising medium 
for a special health institution or sanitariam, but is 
independent and published in the interest of its readers, 
and is a Peoples journal, It is issued quarterly as it is 
thought that this may be as often as the readers will 
care to receive a special journal of this kind. 
HEALTH- C UL TURE is not a story paper or a 
woman’s journal, but is devoted exclusively to its 
speciality. The management believing that the journals 
of the day give enough of miscellaenous reading, and 
that the public will much prefer to find in a Health 
Journal that which its name implies. 
HEALTH-CULTURE is only 50 c. a year or 15 c. 
a number, placing it surely within the reach of all who 
desire to maintain health and avoid “Doctor's Bills.” 
If you have not seen it, send your name for a year’s 
trial. Agents Wanted. Address, 
The HEALTH-CULTURE CO., 
30 East 14th Street, NEW YORK. GEO. H. TAYLOR, M. D. 
Originator and Consulting Physician. 
G. H. PATCHEN, M. D. 
Medical Director. 
The Improved Movement Cure Institute, 
No. 20 West 59th Street, New York. 
THE 
Experienced Application 
-OF- 
MECHANICAL HASSAGE 
1 TO CHRONIC 
FORMS OF DISEASE 
A SPECIALTY. 
“the MANIPULATOR,” 
One of the machines for giving 
Mechanical Massage 
It is the continuation, under a new 
name, of the “Movement Cure ' establish- 
ed by Dr. Geo. H Taylor in New York in 
1854 
It embodies the changes and improve- 
ments he has originated, from time to 
time, the chief of which is mechanical mas- 
sage. 
The relief and cure of the most severe, 
obstinate and obscure forms of chronic 
disease, even after other means have 
failed. Affections of either the PELVIC, 
NERVOUS, CIRCULATORY or DIGES- 
TIVE systems are particularly amenable 
to the treatment as here given. 
Specialized (Swedish) Movements, Man- 
ual and Mechanical Massage. This last, is 
an invaluable remedial agent for which, 
in most chronic forms of disease, there is 
no adequate substitute. 
WHAT IT IS. 
OBJECT AND SCOPE. 
METHODS EMPLOYED. 
Correspondence and PERSONA Z, INSPECTION solicited. Send 
stamp for explanatory literature. AH of Dr. Taylor’s apparatus for giv- 
ing MECHANICAI, MIASSAGE for sale. Catalogue sent on applica- 
tion. Address for any purpose, 
The I. M. C. INSTITUTE, 20 West 59th Street, 
NEW YORK. Columbus Spring Pillow, 
Patented Nov. 5th, 1889, and Jan. 24th, 1893. 
Pillow open and cut to show construction 
THIS HEALTHFUL PILLOW consists of inner light, flexible 
steel springs, highly tempered but noiseless, outside of which is a soft 
padding covered by strong ticking. 
_ _.I* j? of LIGHTERWEIGHT than the feather pillow, is extremely 
DELICATE and SENSITIVE, quickly YIELDING to the lightest 
pressure, and adapting itself to the PERFECT COMFORT of the 
user. It is always DISTEN DED when not underpressure, and never 
becomes matted or inelastic, IT DOES NOT LOSc: ITS SHAPE. 
aVI/W 94X’, RV nna tlror•)ngr 111 w CLEAN and NOISELESS, and 
ABSOLUTELY ODORLESS, and VERMIN PROOF. 
The ends are laced, not sewed, and so are most perfectly ventilated 
and the most HEALTHFUL PILLOW known; its use is particularly 
advantageous to all those who suffer from HEADACHE, CATARRH, 
INSOMNIA, ASTHMA, NEURALGIA, and other like maladies. 
I hose troubled with Sweating of the Head find great relief by using it. 
... T lii si ill o w is as superior to ordinary pillows as is the best S P RIN G 
MATTRESS to the old FEATHER BED. Its users are all enthusi- 
astic m its favor, and cheerfully recommend it. 
The Pillow has the ORDINARY APPEARANCE when closed. 
Write for free booklet. Address, 
THE COLUriBUS SPRING PILLOW CO., 
44 West Broadway, New York. 
Selling Agents, The Health-Culture Co.