PREFACE
In this volume I have endeavored to place before the public a novel method of real scientific massage movements combined with exercises, so that the benefits of both may be obtained simultaneously.
The simplicity of its technic together with its ready personal application make it possible for any individual to achieve excellent results from its use.
The application of scientific massage movements stimulates the nerves, tissues, muscles, organs, vessels, glands and cells much more beneficially and effectively than general exercises. Their combined application is physical culture in its most scientific and perfected form.
In working out a practical presentation of this system, it was noted that the massage movements and the most beneficial exercises could be combined readily and simply (although this must be done in a prescribed way) and that their balanced, logical combination resulted in a method far superior to all other systems of exercises, not only for the maintenance of health, but for special therapeutic and physiologic purposes.
The exercises are chiefly intended for use at home, and will be found to be more advantageous to the individual than any course of physical culture offered anywhere. No gymnastic equipment is necessary and no expenditure, save that of the time required, which will vary mostly from twelve to twenty-five minutes daily according to the time, need and inclination of the individual.
Albrecht Jensen,New York.
DR. WILLIAM SHARPE20 West 50th Street,New YorkMarch, 1920.Mr. Jensen:Dear Sir:It is a pleasure to recommend most highly your system of massage and exercises combined. I have observed the excellent results—from your method of massage alone—in so many of the patients at the Polyclinic Hospital—both in my own patients and in those of the other physicians that I do not hesitate to endorse your statements. The fact that no apparatus is necessary for the combined massage exercises, which are thus automatically graduated according to each person’s strength and condition, is a most desirable feature.They are especially adapted to be used by men, women and children as a permanent physical culture course.Very truly yours,(Signed) William Sharpe.
DR. WILLIAM SHARPE20 West 50th Street,New York
March, 1920.
Mr. Jensen:
Dear Sir:
It is a pleasure to recommend most highly your system of massage and exercises combined. I have observed the excellent results—from your method of massage alone—in so many of the patients at the Polyclinic Hospital—both in my own patients and in those of the other physicians that I do not hesitate to endorse your statements. The fact that no apparatus is necessary for the combined massage exercises, which are thus automatically graduated according to each person’s strength and condition, is a most desirable feature.
They are especially adapted to be used by men, women and children as a permanent physical culture course.
Very truly yours,
(Signed) William Sharpe.
EDWARD LELAND KELLOGG, M.D.WILLIAM ALVIN KELLOGG, M.D.48 West 51st StreetNew YorkApril, 1920.Mr. A. Jensen,New York City.Dear Sir:I am glad to have had the privilege of looking over the manuscript of your system of combined massage and exercise.The results so far as I have observed them have been excellent. This combined treatment possesses manifest advantages over either massage or exercises given separately.The fact that no apparatus is needed and that the strength of the individual adapts the course or treatment to his particular need, renders it generally applicable.Very truly,(Signed) E. L. Kellogg.
EDWARD LELAND KELLOGG, M.D.WILLIAM ALVIN KELLOGG, M.D.48 West 51st StreetNew York
April, 1920.
Mr. A. Jensen,New York City.
Dear Sir:
I am glad to have had the privilege of looking over the manuscript of your system of combined massage and exercise.
The results so far as I have observed them have been excellent. This combined treatment possesses manifest advantages over either massage or exercises given separately.
The fact that no apparatus is needed and that the strength of the individual adapts the course or treatment to his particular need, renders it generally applicable.
Very truly,
(Signed) E. L. Kellogg.