Firm deep muscle-kneading of the general surface will almost always slow and strengthen the pulse.

If the abdomen alone is thoroughly rubbed the same effect appears in the pulse, but less in degree, and massage of the abdomen has also a distinct effect in increasing the flow of urine, a fact worth remembering in cases of heart-disease.

In a case of albuminuria from exercise, W.W.
Keen has shown that massage did not cause the return of the albumin after rest, though exercise did, a difference due to the opposite effects upon blood-pressure of the two forms of activity.

Lauder-Brunton has shown that more blood passes through a masseed part after treatment.
Dr.Eccles and Dr.Douglas Graham both found a decided decrease in the circumference of a limb after massage, showing how completely the veins must have been emptied, for the time at least,--an emptying which would surely be followed by an increased flow of arterial blood into the treated region.

Dr.J.K.Mitchell, in 1894,[21] made a large number of examinations of the blood before and after massage, some in patients under treatment for a variety of disorders affecting the integrity of the blood, and a few in perfectly healthy men.