As we have remarked before, some errors take a while to be noticed. In this article last year by Andrew Vickers and Catherine Zollman (6 November 1999, pp 1254-7) a couple of historical inaccuracies crept into the second paragraph. Per Henrik [not Hendrik] Ling systemised European massage in the early 19th [not 18th] century.
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This corrects the article "Massage therapies" in volume 319 on page 1254.