Preface To The Second Edition

In preparing the Second Edition I have made numerous alterations and small additions which I trust will improve the usefulness of the book, the principal alteration being the considerable enlargement of the chapter on Surface Markings, which I recognized was not adequate to the standard required by the examinations of the Incorporated Society of Trained Masseuses.

Margaret E. Bjorkegren.

London,

May, 1917.

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 considered 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 necessary; 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.

Margaret E. Bjorkegren. London, September, 1914.