Note 393 — LXIX. THE PRINCESS OF THE TUNG-T‘ING LAKE.
Herbert Allen Giles translation
This favourite process consists in gently thumping the person operated upon all over the back with the soft part of the closed fists. Compare Lane, Arabian Nights, Vol. I., p. 551:—“She then pressed me to her bosom, and laid me on the bed, and continued gently kneading my limbs until slumber overcame me.” return to footnote anchor 393 return to footnote anchor 583