One of the most unequivocal as well as desirable and satisfactory uses of massage is its application to portions of the organism, while other portions are excluded. The consequence as related to the circulation of the blood is twofold; this fluid is increased in the parts to which the massage is applied, and is therefore diminished in other portions of the circulation. The latter effect is soon evidenced to the critical observer in the diminished rapidity and force of the pulse, and other indications of lessened arterial tension.