Abstract
From early times ocular massage has been recognized as producing a favorable effect on diseases of the eye. Grecian records show such a procedure to have been practiced among that people, and Paul of Aegina, the last of the eclectics, commented on its curative value. Massage of the eyes seems not to have originated with the intellectuals, for the savages of Africa and America used it intuitively. Pagenstecher 1 in 1871 published a monograph on massage of the eyes, at which time he reported having obtained magnificent results by massage even when other agents failed. Donders 1 in 1872 recited his accomplishments with ocular massage before the International Congress of Ophthalmology at London. Heiberg 1 in 1874, Just, 2 Pedraglia 3 in 1880 and Damalix 4 in 1881 particularized special disease benefited by massage. Hoffmann 5 is credited by Domec 6 with being the first to design an instrument for
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