Many thanks to my models: my daughter Alex for the use of her feet and hands, my daughter-in-law Susan for her help in the plate section, and my granddaughter Sarah for the use of her ear. A big thank-you to baby Isaac Verral, who smiled throughout whenever his feet, hands or ears were touched, no matter how long the photographic session took. I would also like to thank my many students and the practitioners who wrote to me encouraging me to write this manual.
Acknowledgements are due to Health Research, Mokelumne Hill, California for continuing to produce facsimiles of the early writings of Fitzgerald, Bowers, White and Shelby-Riley.
I would also like to acknowledge the following works which I have consulted in the course of writing:
The Anatomical Atlas of Chinese Acupuncture Points, Shandong Science and Technology Press, 1982; Black’s Medical Dictionary, A & C Black, 38th edition, 1995; Churchill Livingstone Medical Dictionary, Churchill Livingstone, 14th edition, 1987; Gray’s Anatomy, Jarrold & Son Publishers, 35th edition, 1973; Badawy, The Tomb of Nyhetep-Ptah and the Tomb of Ankhmahor at Saqqara, University of California Occasional Papers © 1978.