The Practice of Massage : its Physiological E f fects and Therapeutic
Uses. By A. Symons Eccles, M.B. (Macmillan and Co.)—This
elaborate and exhaustive treatise, the result of large experience, is written solely for the service of Dr, Eccles's medical brethren, for whom he hopes it will not be without utility as a contribution to the literature of massage. For the laity, however, it is not without interest, since the book shows the great variety of com.
plaints in which massage is now found to be of service. Tennis- players will refer with curiosity to the author's description and treatment of the injury known as "Lawn-Tennis Elbow." Dr.
Eccles apologises, and perhaps not quite unreasonably, for the big words given to the manipulations of the masseur,—" Effieurage," " petrissage," "tapOtement," "vibration," and "massage it fric-
tion," are no doubt sufficiently pretentious, considering the homely acts signified by these terms ; but the author considers it best to retain them, " as they constitute a kind of volapak among practitioners of the method throughout the world."
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