PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION 



THIS book has been compiled with the object of meeting a want, 

 to which my attention was repeatedly called by my students 

 when preparing them for the examinations of the Incorporated 

 Society of Trained Masseuses. No book dealing with Anatomy > 

 especially arranged for students of massage, has yet been 

 written, and I have endeavoured to make good this deficiency to 

 the best of my ability. It is hoped that this small volume will 

 be found to embody all the ground covered by the syllabus 

 of this Society for its examinations in Massage and Swedish 

 Remedial Exercises. 



Professor A. M. Buchanan of Glasgow has been good enough 

 to allow me to select what illustrations I have thought necessary 

 from his " Manual of Anatomy." I take this opportunity of 

 tendering him my sincere thanks for his courtesy. Through his 

 kindness I am thus able to offer my readers a far better and more 

 freely illustrated book than would have been possible if special 

 figures had had to be made. In a few of the illustrations some 

 parts are shown which are not referred to in the text. As the 

 pointers to them appeared in the original figures, it was con- 

 sidered advisable to retain them, since their removal might 

 have caused damage. 



Within the scope of a small work it is obviously impossible to 

 include more details and explanations than are absolutely neces- 

 sary; but it will, I hope, be found sufficiently full and accurate 

 to render it a useful textbook for those attending classes and 

 lectures on Massage, and afterwards to be of assistance to them 

 in their practice. 



MAEGARET E. BJORKEGREN. 



LONDON, 



September, 1914. 



