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Sketcher.The Manage TreatmentRrovnt m massage may be to many r*adin seiiher name nor frvoaoo ta new, ranking among the primitive—one may any instinctive—method* oI core. In any pain the oaiaal pru*rp'in* u, pn*- tbo hand upon the sat of suffering, to rub or knead it for relief ia oommon lo civilised man or aavags. It to the effort to equalize circulation and draw the blood from the injured part in con-gvatioo, and bring back natural warmth in collapse, for friction doer both. Like all healing method* in the hand, of ignorant orSEW ££££'— “hie asuperseding the peiofal operations at surgery and draatic medicine*.Mssrego originally ia from the Arabic to praae softly, but all manual forme of relief, rubbing, stroking, kneading and bsatiug theThe loaned Prof. Billroth, of Vienna, who drew modern attention to its dm abeut 1876, aayt that maaaage is ae old aa surgery. Kneading. rubbing and working the musolee to relieve fatigue was the practice of savage *od heroic uatiooe from the earliest timer. Dr- Douglaa r, minds us that Homer, in the “ Oiyseev. tells bow beautiful women rubbed and annate] warworn heroes to rest end rrfreshed them. In those d.ys of heroic simplicity it prob-b.’v w.s no mote for e woman to run end anoint a man won out With fighting men of his own mottle through daye of fae'ing, beat and watching* than for a boap 1*1 bum to tend a man aching so from wounds be dcee not know whether moo, women or demon* attend him.But ancient and modern charities of this sort are equally removed from *hlt;- hideous massage madam* who make themselves and their art disreputable.KAJtlY KASTKUS or THE AST.In the fifth century B. C. Hcrodicua, ore c{ the master, of the heeling art, prolonged the live* of Ida patients bv exercise and rubbing. and so cored himself of weakness anlHome clean old colored auntie or * who ia thankful 'o earn her bread by “ rubbinV witfcoot a notion of • m»gnet-i*m,” u r.stly more de*irab!e than tb- half-trained maM*ut who has hurrin! through a conns under s.-mo pucll taacher in haste to bo cirrinr V cent* an hour. One point mu-t bo taken.'ihst tbo beat physicians condemn the mm of vasriin-- or any alv.» or unctior.* in massage. Oil bath, for the thin and badly nruriaho! are d coirs bio, bat they should never be given by head. Tbo beat wav of gaining I hair effect* is by a hot air bath first—it may be over a hot regist.-r or by a biasing fire in one’s room—till tbe pore* are well open. A bet roap and water b.tb. quickly applied and wiped dry, should leave the akin free, when pure olive oil. almond or refined salad oil should be poured on the shoulders and rubbed over the person with a sponge or absorbent silk. All tbe better if the oil isbing, and so cored himself of weakness and ill-bealih that be lived to be 100, as we reed m Hufeland's Art of Prolonging Life. Herodotus spooks of Egyptian tra-eage and anoicttng. Suitable massage knits slack and rickety joints by stimulating their circulation, nutrition and innsrvaiioo, while with peeper friotioo e stiff joint becomes flexible. The fact that nibbing can make fleab and cauae it to waota is often observed U. massage, of which Dr. Graham aaya: '' Pcopl* -MwUtaee lore much adipose tiaeue, to the* detriment, by tbe excemive uae of onstage. But this can be used to advantage where fat is rnperabundant, with went of tone .nd tension, for in these it will fcc found that hard rubbing binds. Soft rubbing loosens not only tough and matted condition* of akin, end superficial musclea. but also io voluntary tenatous of musctes, found in overtaxed end debihtated people. Hera comae the nccmalty of careful discriminate*. for if a patient in such condition re-oetven each Tignrons rubbing ae pee.- for ■--age in these day. the trouble would probably ba aggravated, for greater tension ■Wild be excited by the preewire of friction and manipulation upon terminal nerve filn-mrets already In .tate af irritation.”It takes a certain amount of strength to bear mae^e, and nervous, high-strung w«asn an aomafimo not at all improved by iL soothing as it may immediately seem. My own last experience of massage by a trained operate produced a sort of inferno elcepuiae for half an boor, followed by in-itdttrKnss: **• ^ “uMessage is nowhere beUre understood at Urn parent day than among the Sandwich Islander*. from whom il U to be bo pad acme trecrpciaicg traveller will import the art and practitioner. togrihar. As travelling in be done on foot or ho.se-beck, long distances over rough rends, life WO| k .“tTi °°* ** “■ **•**•■'1 •Ucrintiooi without this massage, or lomi-lomi, a the najvw term it. When footsore, weary and Mam with echmg joint. after a journey, the ooueequenoas with us would be days anddaye of stupor and 1---1~ Bat theJUwaiian civilization sands relisf ia the •1-pe of aa expert, with firm, reft touch, who oomae to vour mates you lie in a single gmrmret, muf skillfully kaemla. works and ■trek* rech wearied muscle from bent to foot aod charms each pain away.** no txuAny one who has been under the Lauds of a clever masseur will regret that the lomi-lorn, experts have not long since been imported to tram a few thouaand men and womn eo greatly needed by ournervous and asdsutary race. Tbs chi'Is keep a number of lomi-lomi people ia their reima, end Dr. Emrreon says the chiefs are Jo per cent larger and taller than the sub-■»lt;co constantly iorei-fereiad. In ceres c4 stunted growth 1'iobably nothing would so - tfmually lo-reo-e the suture as abundance of pair air, atrang food and skillful daily masrege.I« was proposed a few years since by some projecting people to import a number of Japanese measure, who are also very skill-5*™**••*. n»d introduce eastern luxu-rim into New York City ; but, Uk. muy other excellent schemes, it a waits some ■hrewd persons of executive ability to carry it oat.To attempt a drecriptmn of the mode of applying maeaagephysidaoe agree U not an eoay natter. Fee pmfoctice It require, a return rapport of an intelligent, skillful hand with the feelings of the patient—a rarity which any one can imagine who has tried to have hi* hair combed in exactly the‘rrech, German and Scandinavian physician* oftan apply maresge thomrelvea with-Edwird H. Clark have tried their hand, at it. But tbe patient would probably prefrr time and feel more at ease withperfumed—soothing and refreshing senses ib.n one. At least fifteen minute# should be speut in the hot air, allowing the skin to absorb the oil—ft i» nonsense to talk of rubbing ic in with any ordinary friotioo. Six tablespoon (uls of oil are quite eoough fur a hath, as it is all the skin is likely to take at ouoe, and more is wasted. Care mu-t be taken to keep the person entirely warm and in a glow during tbe bath. In fifteen minutes to half an hour, a* one grows accustomed, tbe remaining oil can be washed off with warm, soapy water—no soap being applied directly to tbe skin or it will wash the oil from the pores.Very weak person* mav tske an ammonia bath firit—oce lablcspoun/ul of liquid ammonia to throe quirts of wsrtn water— in tbe fonnooo. with oil nficr it, and a s*o * id oil beih late in the d.y «* evening without a wstar bath. The oil shoald be always as hot as is conformable. It is said that oil baths are giviu in oiuncotioo with aocnc of tie public batbs in Chicago, but it is probably fcr tbe purpose of suppling theKta relhei than to nourish and siren,-tb n •lids.Thin dyspeptic*, who can eat hi tic ; oer-son* in advanced consumption, and patients recovering from fever, are nourished and strengthened by absorbing nutrition in tb»a way. when the stomach is too weak to supply tbe system.HOW TO VTtOX* THR VACS.A* to the mooted point in facial massage whether tbe -ticking is to be girec toward the eyes jdlt;1 nose or away from them, the answer is always away from the nose and eyes. As to wh.tber masMge is given ecroae wrinkles or in the-r direction, the skin has its own contractile power when roused, and there is leas danger of stretching it Uan is Imagined. Dr. Douglas tells u. that massage on other parts of the person often has more efl.ct in reaching organ, than rubbing the parts themselves. In maiseoing the face of a fat patient the timues can be only rolled and stretched under the finge.s and palm, away from tbe oornare of the eye* and uoee, towarJ the angle of the lower jew. If the poUiTT. is thin or in moderate flesh, the cheeks can be grasped hetwwn the thumb and fingers and more tlorougbly *iueer. d and miutrd in the same direotion. The forefinger, covered with a fold of thin cloth, may bo put inside the cheek*, and there sofily squx-zed, manipulated and stretched betwiea thumb and fingxr.But nowhere is more practice and skill required than in mareage of the f-oe and head. That it will relieve the dreadful neuralgia of tbe fifth pair of nerves is of far las interest to most wom-o than that tbe ehceka can recover plumpness in this way. Still massage is toomu.h of an art to be die-of in a newspaper articl;.—5. /forr.Dr. Wmr-MitchaU refen hi* firrt interest in the subject to the remarkable results obtained from it* use by a charlatan In s case of progressive paralywe. Dr. DoagUa thinks there is great room for improvement in the tnuung of maaaeura, and moat patients will agrw wih him. Hi* •• shrewd, superannuated a no tie out of a Job who bv* learned the meaning of the wosd massage and print* It on he* card, and continue* her rubUn* as •be ha always done, is a type of a plentiful ckaa of maassure who can bo tolerated if ttmy do mot mis magnetism, eoientima and ■ptriliM with their muscle and can keep their bands ,ff a pereon’s trtnkets and fin*and needs dentifrice, who chews gam during tbe operation aad talks juat enough to break ***• dUct 01 Motion, whoa touchwould be psrf*.i if H were an; where olee, is not likely to do much good toons who Uanything of a sensitive patient. A stout, ruddy or phrnp pea— m not tbe best for age. ouch people require a great deal m the open air for the proper a of their blood, end confining menage, with its stooping pas-m Hum and pots them out of■omtert Panning Away.Tne age of monster* has pretty nearly passed away, only a few remaining, like the elephant and the whale. Small animal* ty of sense will alanys survive giants ta the long run. tecaurn they require lea food and know bettor how to avoid danger. Observe, iu illustrotiou, how the doom of exllnotion baa Ldlen upon tbe gigantic mammals which roamad over tbs earth by myrivdi only a short a time ago.There was the dinooeroe, which lived in herds about tbe lakes, aa the deposits aho* -Wg aa an elephant, but in appearanoo somewhere between the rhinooeroe aud tbe hippopotamus, with three pair* of horns on its bead and huge aaoer-like tasks that fitted into sheath* in the lower jiw. More imposing yet was the tinooero*,” somewhat eimUar of aspect and sixteen feet long. Not Ices impressive was the megatherium, or giant sloth, aa Urge ee two eiepbants, which attained a measurement of eighteen fat and procured the leaves on which it fed by eating ibe f upon He mighty haunches and uprooting giat trees. Oi the •• dinotherium no oocnp ete skeleton he* been discovered, bat it was doubt lea tbe biggest land mammal that ever lived. A full-grown skull of this ear licet of proboaidieM, whiob had long tasks a well as a trunk, mcosure* five fset from the point of the lower teeth to the top of the heid. The brontop. of elephantine size, had a head like a rhinoc ros, with huge horns. Quite vs remarkable was the •* •ivathenom, a boat like an antelope, but big as an elephant, with two comical horns on the fr.nt of its head aad two immense spreading one*, behind. Among birds were waders ten fee: in height, such re tbe •* dinonus end gkrtornis. Contemporary with thorn were the mammoth and mavtadon, the woolly rhinoceros, armadillos nine feet in length, and the saber-toothed tiger, larger than the grot ret lion of to-day. All that U left of there wonders foundof animal life in deposit* each as those of the Uko beds For years the Govern-hat bren engaged in exavatiog their bones, which are now U make part ia destined to be tbe greatest i collection on earth.— Ms.* ire tow Slmrlog their of whatMr. Spurgeon was oooe asked to lash the then prevailing foUy-the inviiibU bonnet. This be did in the following words : 1 have bon requeued to rebuke the bonnets of theday. All faoa were immediately upturned, aod roanning lbs ladies of the congregation he added : Keally, I ere none .'-a more bitter rebuke than any other words oould haveconveyedDias of klesioo has a strain of Indian blood ia his vein*, a* had his pro-deressora, Juarez and Hidalgo. Tbe Cm-gross of Mexico ia lergeiy oomposid of descendants of the ancient Aztecs.The Baron**i Burdett-Coutta has just returned from the CjoUnent after celebrating h*r seventy-aeroetb birthday. Sbcwai in ezoelleot health and is now aeu.ig as nurse for her young husband.Lady Uarcoart, the historian Motley’s ughter, is one of the eleven.t women in She is very handsome aad local celebrity because ofw wit.The Empress CorloU. has recovered her . but bcr whole life since the time, twenty-five years ego, when her husband we. shot ha been a blank, of which do maoory lingers.Running is the great beautifier of figure aad movement. It gives mow alar development, strong heart action, and free '***«;• ? 3 t fi fl M2.2L s* t u e * 7c?r I to a B-5'8 8 5 g’P’S C-g f f 8 g § £^8 8 S ? ° B S 8.B-8 5 3 ft? r? S t£.Ha-o*- u-oas
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Petersburg Times
Petersburg, South Australia, AU
Fri, Sep 18, 1891
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