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14 PASSIVE MOVEMENTS:
treatment for the head and body. After two days the ear liad
its normal colour and proportions, the skin peeled off, and the
swelling on the face and neck were gone. For some days after-
wards the patient had a feeling of prickling and slight heat when
the face and ear were washed.
The masseur can easily know if he has broken through the
rule of not working with a stiff wrist and fingers, if the skin has
been reddened more than from ordinary pressure, the redness of
the latter being less intense, and disappearing more quickly. It
seems scarcely necessary to state that the pressure should
gradually increase in strength, but, as I have frequently seen
mistakes of this kind made, I mention it.
The’ petrissage to the mnscles maybe applied with one or with
two hands, as shown in figs. 2 and 3.
Fig. 2.
The manipulation with one hand hardly needs any further
explanation, but with two hands it is more complicated. The
muscle is rolled as before described, but it is also stretched by
the backward movement of the fingers of one hand, while the
thumb of the other passes forwards. In fig. 3 we also see that
at the conclusion of the movement, the fingers of the hand
moving forwards and the thumb of the other one ai-e only
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