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Massage treatment of soldiers, 1919

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Massage treatment of soldiers, 1919

Soldiers receive massage treatments at Dunedin Hospital's orthopaedic department in 1919. Trained massage therapists treated soldiers wounded in the First World War.

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Otago Daily Times

Reference: 4 June 1919

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Kerryn Pollock, Alternative health therapies – Chiropractic, osteopathy and massage, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/27945/massage-treatment-of-soldiers-1919 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 12 April 2011.