MASSAGE BY THE BLIND.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13414, 11 May 1912, Page 8

MASSAGE BY THE BLIND.

An estabishment for scientific massage has been opened in Paris by an organisation of blind masseurs. In calling attention to the fact, the leading medical journals say that this work for the blind said to succeed in an exceptional manner in this new occupation; Experienced opens up a profitable means of livelihood for a class of persons to whom the- professional field has heretofore been very limited. In consequence of their extreme delicacy of touch, the blind are to succeed in an exceptional manner in bind masseurs, both male and female, aro already employed at many mineral water resorts on the continent, such as Viichy, Una go, Plombieres, Neris, Ohatel-Guyon, Bourbonne, and Bourbon l'Archambault, whilst inj Japan massage has become a practical m«w*u poly of the blind. This fact *» -

generally recognised by the Japanese that the same word now designates both masseur and blind. Owing to the favourable results of the experiments at French watering-places), under Government patronage, a, special oour.sfe of massage for the blind has been instituted, with Dr. Fabre, a blind medical man in charge.