[Illustration: THE AUTHOR] MASSAGE & EXERCISES COMBINED A PERMANENT PHYSICAL CULTURE COURSE FOR MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN HEALTH-GIVING, VITALIZING PROPHYLACTIC, BEAUTIFYING A NEW SYSTEM OF THE CHARACTERISTIC ESSENTIALS OF GYMNASTIC AND INDIAN YOGIS CONCENTRATION EXERCISES COMBINED WITH SCIENTIFIC MASSAGE MOVEMENTS _WITH 86 ILLUSTRATIONS AND DEEP BREATHING EXERCISES_ BY ALBRECHT JENSEN FORMERLY IN CHARGE OF MEDICAL MASSAGE CLINICS AT POLYCLINIC HOSPITAL AND OTHER HOSPITALS, NEW YORK 1920 NEW YORK, N. Y. COPYRIGHT 1920 BY ALBRECHT JENSEN _All Rights Reserved_ Printed by Brooks & Porter New York _The human body is like a chain—it is only as strong as its weakest link._ _The strength of the body is destroyed by violence and idleness, but preserved by exercise._ _Big muscles do not always indicate vitality or good health; many so-called strong men have died comparatively young. Vitality is rather agility of mind and body and the ability of the latter to withstand and repulse attacks of disease._ _Good health is the best heritage parents can transmit to their children._ PREFACE In this volume I have endeavored to place before the public a novel method of real scientific massage movements combined with exercises, so that the benefits of both may be obtained simultaneously. The simplicity of its technic together with its ready personal application make it possible for any individual to achieve excellent results from its use. The application of scientific massage movements stimulates the nerves, tissues, muscles, organs, vessels, glands and cells much more beneficially and effectively than general exercises. Their combined application is physical culture in its most scientific and perfected form. In working out a practical presentation of this system, it was noted that the massage movements and the most beneficial exercises could be combined readily and simply (although this must be done in a prescribed way) and that their balanced, logical combination resulted in a method far superior to all other systems of exercises, not only for the maintenance of health, but for special therapeutic and physiologic purposes.