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When I spent the years 1877–79 in the Institution, only a
two-years’ course was necessary in order to obtain a diploma,
but in the year 1888 the rule was made that a three-years’
course should be imperative. The concluding year is entirely
devoted to attendance at lectures on diseases, to clinics, and to
the application of the various movements to the patients
undergoing treatment. The latter are of two classes,—those in the
morning being paying patients, while in the afternoon the poor
are gratuitously treated. This valuable and necessary extension
of time is due to the present chief of the Institution, Professor
L. M. Torngren, Professor Hartelius, and the other masters, who
for over six years have strenuously advocated the acceptance of
this rule by the Swedish Medical Council.
It is supposed by many that what nowadays goes under the
name of massage is one thing and Ling’s system is another.
This is an entire mistake, for the massage manipulations are
only a few of the passive movements contained in Ling’s system.
That this is the case, any one may see for himself, if he will
read what Ling and his immediate successors have written. It
is, on the other hand, quite true that the medical profession in
Sweden, disregarding their own native Institution, have “gone
over the river to fetch water,” and have learnt the massage
movement from Metzger or his pupils.
I should also wish to state that I have not studied any part
of the treatment under any one but my own masters in the
Royal Central Institution at Stockholm, and my brother, Mr.
Henrik Kellgren, under whom I worked more or less during
the years 1876 to 1886. Neither have I read all the writings
on massage and Ling’s system (“Schwedische Heilgymnastik”)
which are everywhere cropping up on the Continent. But the
little of these authors that I have read, and the figures I have
seen in their books purporting to be true illustrations of Ling’s
exercises, are in most cases incorrect.
Another impression derived from these books is, that the
authors, if they have ever been in Stockholm, must have been
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