Stories the Feet Can Tell Thru Reflexology, Eunice D. Ingham's 1938 self published book, is Ingham's own record of her extension of William H. Fitzgerald's zone therapy into a foot reflex map during the 1930s, and of her touring teaching through the National Institute of Reflexology she founded. Its strength is that it is the founder's own primary account of her method's development and popularisation, on the same footing this catalog gives other practitioners' own founding texts. Its limit is that it is a practitioner's self published book, not academic scholarship, and it is not evidence that reflexology has any medical effect; it is catalogued only for what Ingham's own record states about her method's history.
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Reliability Tier3
Tier three: a practitioner's self published book, not academic scholarship, presenting the founder's own primary account of her method's development. Reliable for what Ingham's own record states about reflexology's history, not for any medical claim about the practice's effect. NotesEunice Ingham's own self-published 1938 book (Rochester, New York; a second volume, "Stories the Feet Have Told Thru Reflexology," followed in 1951), the record of her own extension of William H. Fitzgerald's zone therapy into a foot-reflex map in the 1930s and touring teaching through the National Institute of Reflexology she founded. A practitioner's own primary text, catalogued for what Ingham's own book and teaching record state about her method's development and popularisation, the same footing as this catalogue's existing entry for Ralph Blum's "The Book of Runes"; not evidence that reflexology has any medical effect, and not academic scholarship.
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AuthorEunice D. Ingham
PublisherEunice D. Ingham (self-published)
Publication Year1938
Source TypeBook (practitioner)
Claims Backed By This Source (10 claims)
This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Articles, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Body Parts, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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