In order to study the effect of massage alone upon the blood no other treatment was used, though of course the patient was kept at "absolute rest." No drugs were given, electricity was not used, and extra food was omitted, as the irritability of the oesophagus made her unwilling to attempt the exertion and annoyance of frequent feeding.

The general chilliness was at once helped by massage, and in a few days only felt in the small hours of the night, and the patient gained weight from the first.

After one week of treatment a blood count was made: red cells were 3,800,000, more than double the former figure; haemoglobin, 35 per cent., almost double its original value.

On the same day, one hour after the completion of an hour's massage, the corpuscular count had attained 5,400,000, the haemoglobin remaining 35 per cent.
At the end of two weeks the haemic murmur had faded into a faint soft bruit, though the mitral murmur was unchanged, the skin had improved in color, the aches and weariness were gone, and the blood count had reached nearly five million cells, with 50 per cent.

of haemoglobin.