History of Massage (MBLEX)
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli - ✔️✔️Analyzed muscular contractions.
William Harvey - ✔️✔️Demonstrated blood circulation by heartbeat
Thomas Sydenham - ✔️✔️Compiled clinical descriptions of disease and developed
specific remedies.
Pehr Hendrik Ling - ✔️✔️Father of Swedish massage. Swedish physiologist and
gymnastics instructor "Ling System".
Johann Mezger - ✔️✔️Physician who introduced French terminology to massage. ex;
"effleurage".
George Henry Taylor & Charles Fayette Taylor - ✔️✔️Brought Swedish system to the
United States in 1856.
George Henry Taylor - ✔️✔️Wrote the first American massage textbook (1860): "an
Exposition of the Swedish Movement Cure.
Galen of Pergamon - ✔️✔️The personal physician of Roman Emperor Marcus
Aurelius, wrote De Sanitate Tuenda in support of massage.
Rhazes - ✔️✔️Wrote about medical practices, including massage, in the
comprehensive Book of Medicine.
Avicenna - ✔️✔️Wrote "the Canon of Medicine", which compiled theoretical and
practical medical knowledge of the time and made many references to massage.
Mondino dei Luzzi - ✔️✔️Wrote "Anothomia, the first modern treatise on anatomy.
Paracelsus - ✔️✔️Laid the foundations of chemical pharmacology (rather than herbal
remedies).
Ambroise Paré - ✔️✔️A military surgeon who invented several surgical instruments,
discussed therapeutic effects of massage, and classified types of massage movements.
Girolamo Mecuriale - ✔️✔️Spent several years in Rome studying manuscripts of
ancient writers; his extensive knowledge of the attitudes of Greeks Romans towards diet
and exercise are evident in "De Arte Gymnastica".
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli - ✔️✔️Analyzed muscular contractions.
William Harvey - ✔️✔️Demonstrated blood circulation by heartbeat
Thomas Sydenham - ✔️✔️Compiled clinical descriptions of disease and developed
specific remedies.
Pehr Hendrik Ling - ✔️✔️Father of Swedish massage. Swedish physiologist and
gymnastics instructor "Ling System".
Johann Mezger - ✔️✔️Physician who introduced French terminology to massage. ex;
"effleurage".
George Henry Taylor & Charles Fayette Taylor - ✔️✔️Brought Swedish system to the
United States in 1856.
George Henry Taylor - ✔️✔️Wrote the first American massage textbook (1860): "an
Exposition of the Swedish Movement Cure.
Galen of Pergamon - ✔️✔️The personal physician of Roman Emperor Marcus
Aurelius, wrote De Sanitate Tuenda in support of massage.
Rhazes - ✔️✔️Wrote about medical practices, including massage, in the
comprehensive Book of Medicine.
Avicenna - ✔️✔️Wrote "the Canon of Medicine", which compiled theoretical and
practical medical knowledge of the time and made many references to massage.
Mondino dei Luzzi - ✔️✔️Wrote "Anothomia, the first modern treatise on anatomy.
Paracelsus - ✔️✔️Laid the foundations of chemical pharmacology (rather than herbal
remedies).
Ambroise Paré - ✔️✔️A military surgeon who invented several surgical instruments,
discussed therapeutic effects of massage, and classified types of massage movements.
Girolamo Mecuriale - ✔️✔️Spent several years in Rome studying manuscripts of
ancient writers; his extensive knowledge of the attitudes of Greeks Romans towards diet
and exercise are evident in "De Arte Gymnastica".
