Skip to main content

Kōrero: Alternative health therapies

Massage treatment of soldiers, 1919

Image
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.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Otago Daily Times

Reference: 4 June 1919

Permission of the Otago Daily Times must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Ngā whakaahua me ngā rauemi katoa o tēnei kōrero

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

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

He kōrero nā Kerryn Pollock, i tāngia i te 12 April 2011.