Quote:
In 380BC, Hippocrates wrote:
‘A physician must be experienced in many things but assuredly also in rubbing – for things that have the same name have not always the same effect, for rubbing can bind a joint that is too loose and loosen a joint that is too tight; rubbing can bind and loosen; can make flesh or cause parts to waste; hard rubbing binds, soft rubbing loosens. Much rubbing causes parts to waste, moderate rubbing makes them grow’.