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Gymnasium at King's College Hospital, London with female patients and staff. c1900.

Dr Koch’s Emasculation and the Birth of Physiotherapy

The formation of the Society of Trained Masseuses (STM) by four British nurses in 1894 is often opined as the beginning of the physiotherapy profession (Ottoson, 2015). In support, physiotherapy historian and critical thinker Dave Nicholls (2016) said on the subject, ..physiotherapy must be seen to begin when the question

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