enter for the examination unless she can show that she has received
her training at one of the schools approved by the society.

Adequate training in massage includes a course of not less than six
months in Elementary Anatomy and Physiology, the Theory and Practice
of Massage and a course of bandaging. Students usually attend the
classes from 10 A.M. to 4 P.M., lectures being given in the morning,
demonstrations and practical work on "model patients" in the afternoon
hours.

Sufficiently advanced students are allowed to attend at hospitals or
infirmaries to see--and themselves to carry out under the teacher's
supervision--the treatment ordered for the patients by the doctor. In
this way all students have opportunity during their training of seeing
and giving treatment to the various cases which they may have to deal
with as qualified masseuses when working under private doctors.

Some training schools give their own certificate after training,
and this is useful as a guarantee of the training taken. It is not,
however, such an assurance of efficiency to the medical profession or
the general public as the certificate gained after examination by an
independent examining body.

There is also a further examination held by the society once yearly
in Medical Gymnastics. The minimum time to expend on this is a further
six months after qualifying as a masseuse, so that it takes a year to
gain the double qualification.

In addition to supplying the independent examination in these
subjects, the society watches over the interests of the masseuses. All
its members are bound to observe the rules of the society. The result
of this is threefold.

(1) The doctor is assured that the masseuse
will not undertake cases on her own
diagnosis, but work only under qualified
direction.

(2) The public is assured that the masseuse
is a trustworthy woman as well as an
efficient worker.

(3) The masseuse herself is protected from
undesirable engagements. This is of
considerable importance.

The training for the examination previously
mentioned is from 10 to 15 guineas for those taking
the course. There is generally some reduction
made for nurses. The further course in Medical
Gymnastics costs from 20 guineas.

From this it will be seen that the whole training is comparatively
inexpensive; it is, however, not a profession to be entered lightly.
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