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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Zone Therapy - Relieving Pain at Home - -Author: William H. Fitzgerald - Edwin F. Bowers - -Release Date: April 15, 2017 [EBook #54553] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ZONE THERAPY *** - - - - -Produced by Thiers Halliwell, deaurider and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - - - - -Transcriber’s notes: - -The text of this e-book has been preserved in its original form apart -from correction of several typographic errors (listed at the end). -Inconsistent spelling, punctuation and chapter numbering (mixed -Arabic/Roman numerals) remain as in the original. Some illustrations -have been moved nearer to the relevant text. Italic text is denoted by -_underscores_ and bold text by *asterisks*. - - - - - ZONE THERAPY - - OR - - RELIEVING PAIN AT HOME - - - BY - - WM. H. FITZGERALD, M. D. - - AND - - EDWIN F. BOWERS, M. D. - - Author of “Side Stepping Ill Health” - “Alcohol--Its Influence on Mind and Body,” etc. - - - COLUMBUS, OHIO: - I. W. LONG, Publisher - 1917 - - - - - COPYRIGHT, 1917 - BY - I. W. LONG - - - - -CONTENTS. - - - CHAPTER I. PAGE - - Relieving Pain by Pressure 15 - - CHAPTER II. - - That Aching Head 24 - - CHAPTER III. - - Curing Goitre With a Probe 32 - - CHAPTER IV. - - Finger Squeezing for Eye Troubles 43 - - CHAPTER V. - - Making the Deaf Hear 50 - - CHAPTER VI. - - Painless Child Birth 61 - - CHAPTER VII. - - Zone Therapy for Women 76 - - CHAPTER VIII. - - Relaxing Nervous Tension 84 - - CHAPTER IX. - - Curing Lumbago with a Comb 93 - - CHAPTER X. - - Scratching the Hand for Sick Stomach 104 - - CHAPTER XI. - - Hay Fever, Asthma and Tonsillitis 111 - - CHAPTER XII. - - Curing a Sick Voice 120 - - CHAPTER XIII. - - A Specific for Whooping and Other Coughs 129 - - CHAPTER XIV. - - How a Phantom Tumor was Dissipated 138 - - CHAPTER XV. - - Dr. White’s Experience 142 - - CHAPTER XVI. - - Zone Therapy--for Dentists Only 148 - - CHAPTER XVII. - - Zone Therapy--for Doctors Only 171 - - CHAPTER XVIII. - - Food for Thought 186 - - - - -INTRODUCTION - - -Thousands of lives are lost annually from diseases which could have -been prevented. Hundreds of thousands, because of some preventable -ailment, which partially or totally incapacitates them, are today -living only a small part of their lives. Millions of dollars yearly are -squandered on medicines, doctors and undertakers--much of which might -have been saved by a right knowledge of the laws of health and hygiene. - -Even among the comfortably situated, or even well-to-do, robust, -vigorous health is the rarest of possessions. The most rugged-looking, -on being closely and sympathetically catechised, will admit to a -“touch of rheumatism”; a chronic stomach, liver, or kidney trouble; -nervousness, headaches, neuralgia, constipation, or something that -tends to prevent his attaining completest physical power and mental -efficiency. And the weaker sex more than justify their descriptive -adjective. For 80% of those not directly under a physician’s care, or -taking some medicine or form of treatment for something, should be. - -Conditions are improving, however. There is a dawn of hope for -humanity. For good health is being made a fetish. It is becoming a -gospel--a gospel preached in schools, newspapers, magazines, churches -and theatres. Accurate knowledge concerning sanitation, sexology, food, -clothing, exercise, sleeping, resting, and all hygienic measures, is -becoming more and more widely disseminated. - -Humanity is awakening to the fact that sickness, in a large percentage -of cases, is an error--of body and mind. Ignorance of the injurious -effects of wrong foods, drinks, habits and methods is gradually being -overcome. - -Foremost among those engaged in educating the public away from paths of -ignorance, and the disastrous consequences of this ignorance, is the -medical fraternity. The noblest and most self-sacrificing profession -on earth is the one most industriously engaged in sawing the branch -between itself and the tree of Financial Gain. The doctor is the -philanthropist most impressively employed in killing the geese that lay -his golden eggs with one hand, while he cuts his pocket-book’s jugular -vein with the other. - -For he catches and segregates--constructing prisons for them, if -necessary--all cases,--or even suspected cases--of contagious -disease,--disease which, if permitted to spread broadcast, would net -him a horde of ducats. - -He sees to it that no infectious disorders are imported into the -country--the spreading of which would give him much practice. He traces -every typhoid case to its ultimate dirty barn, or infected water -supply, and counts that day well spent whose low declining sun has seen -him stamp out a possible typhoid epidemic at its source. - -He vaccinates all--willing and unwilling--lest he be kept horribly busy -attending a huge army of small-pox patients. - -He instructs gluttons, and others, as to the grave dangers of -overeating, or of eating the right food at the wrong time. - -He teaches mothers to sterilize their babies’ bottles, and thereby keep -the bugs of war at bay. - -He thunders against exposure, against spitting in or on public places; -he has Health Ordinances passed, covering every conceivable method -whereby disease might develop. - -Untiringly and without intermission--except during a few of the worst -blizzards--he inculcates the doctrines of flies, in their relation to -fingers and filth, and hurls Phillipics against mosquitoes, ticks, and -the insect world generally--not forgetting bed-bugs, lice, and other -disease-breeding vermin. - -He extols the benefits of bathing, the rich rewards of fresh air, -exercise, and the relief of constipation. - -In fact, he takes pride in doing all that within him lies, in order to -teach the world to do without him. - -Thanks to doctors, we are learning about plumbing and posture, -mastication and measles, outdoors, deep breathing, poisons and poise. -We are finding out what bad teeth do to good health, how to work, play -and sleep so as to get the greatest physical good from each. - -We are warned against overweight, alcohol, common colds and tobacco, -and the evil possibilities in marrying one’s cousin--or some one else’s -cousin who has, or has had, syphilis, feeble-mindedness, a drunken -ancestry, epilepsy, or some tendency to “hark back” and “revert to -type”--as did Mendel’s beans, or the black Andalusian pullets. - -The subject of life and health conservation is “in the air.” Only -recently a president of the American Medical Association made this -theme the subject of his inaugural address. Hardly a medical journal -but has one or more articles devoted to it in each issue. We are being -specifically instructed in how to avoid disease. - -Now, however, we are to learn how, in many instances, diseases, many of -them most grave and life-shortening, may be cured. This, by measures -which conflict with no other form of treatment, and so simple as almost -to appear ridiculous. For Dr. William H. FitzGerald, the discoverer of -zone therapy, is to tell us how he instructs his patients, under his -guidance and direction, to cure themselves. - -Dr. FitzGerald’s position is one that commands respect. He is a -graduate of the University of Vermont, and spent two and a half years -in the Boston City Hospital. He served two years in the Central London -Nose and Throat Hospital. For a like period he was in Vienna, where he -was assistant to Professor Politzer and Professor Otto Chiari, who are -known wherever medical text-books are read. - -For several years Dr. FitzGerald has been the senior nose and throat -surgeon of St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, and is an active member of -most of the American medical societies. - -I have known Dr. FitzGerald for many years. He is able and honest, a -skillful and competent surgeon, and a student. No matter how foolish, -how ridiculous his methods may seem, they are most decidedly not the -vaporings of a dreamer or a charlatan. They are the calmly digested -findings of a trained scientific mind. - -And so Dr. FitzGerald is to give us specific details of one of -the most wonderful and perplexing things connected with the art of -medicine. This, because a physician’s premise is to teach--as well as -heal. Because publicity concerning the prevention and cure of disease -is a duty he owes mankind: not as an altruist, but as a human being. - - Edwin F. Bowers, M. D. - - Sept. 1, 1916. - - - - -PUBLISHERS’ NOTE. - - -The chapters comprising this book were first published as special -articles in the “Associated Sunday Magazines”, and “Every Week”. -Accompanying the introductory article was this comment by Mr. Bruce -Barton, the able and critical editor of these Magazines. It explains -itself: - -“For almost a year Dr. Bowers has been urging me to publish this -article on Dr. FitzGerald’s remarkable system of healing, known as -zone therapy. Frankly, I could not believe what was claimed for zone -therapy, nor did I think that we could get magazine readers to believe -it. Finally, a few months ago, I went to Hartford unannounced, and -spent a day in Dr. FitzGerald’s offices. I saw patients who had been -cured of goiter; I saw throat and ear troubles immediately relieved by -zone therapy; I saw a nasal operation performed without any anesthetic -whatever; and--in a dentist’s office--teeth extracted without any -anesthetic except the analgesic influence of zone therapy. Afterward -I wrote to about fifty practising physicians in various parts of the -country who have heard of zone therapy and are using it for the relief -of all kinds of cases, even to allay the pains of childbirth. Their -letters are on file in my office. - -This first article will be followed by a number of others in which Dr. -Bowers will explain the application of zone therapy to the various -common ailments. I anticipate criticism regarding these articles from -two sources: first, from a small percentage of physicians; second, from -people who will attempt to use zone therapy without success. We have -considered this criticism in advance, and are prepared to disregard it. -If the articles serve to reduce the sufferings of people in dentists’ -chairs even ten per cent., if they will help in even the slightest -way to relieve the common pains of every-day life, they will be amply -justified. - -We do not know the full explanation of zone therapy; but we do know -that a great many people have been helped by it, and that nobody can -possibly be harmed.” - - THE EDITOR. - -[Illustration: Diagram of *Anterior Zones* on one side of the body. - -Both right and left sides of the body are the same. - -Each numbered line represents the *center* of its respective zone on -the anterior part of the body. - -The tongue, hard and soft palate, posterior wall of the nasopharynx and -oropharynx, and the generative organs are in ten zones, five on each -side of the median line. - -The middle ear is in Zone 4. - -The eustachian tube and middle ear combined are in Zones 3 and 4. - -The upper surface of the tongue is in the anterior zones. - -The teeth are in the respective zones as indicated by passing a line -antero-posteriorly thru the respective zones. - -The viscera are in the zones as represented by a line passed -antero-posteriorly thru the respective zones. - -FIG. 1.] - -[Illustration: Diagram of *Posterior Zones* on one side of the body. - -Both right and left sides of the body are the same. - -Each numbered line represents the *center* of its respective zone on -the posterior part of the body. - -The under surface of the tongue is in the posterior zone. - -FIG. 2.--Posterior view, illustrating individual zones. It will be -observed that what is commonly called the back of the hand is really -the front of that member, whereas the palm of the hand corresponds to -the sole of the foot.] - - - - -CHAPTER I. - -RELIEVING PAIN BY PRESSURE. - - -No illustrator would ever think of drawing a picture of a boy with -a green-apple colic, unless he represented that boy with both hands -clasped fervently over the seat of war. Nor would he picture a pain -anywhere else, without showing the attempts made to relieve this pain. -For no one would believe his illustrations, if he omitted these details. - -Now, while we know the fact of pain relief, through laying on of the -hands, or by kindred measures, we know only a part of its reason for -operation. There are several of these. They are, first, the soothing -influence of animal magnetism, experienced when we tenderly, if not -lovingly, rub the bump, accumulated in the dark of the moon, by -collision with a tall brunette side-board, or a door carelessly left -ajar. It does soothe. This we know. - -Next, the manipulation of the hand over the injured place tends to -prevent a condition of venous stasis--a state in which the injured -surface veins dam back the flow of blood, and produce that lurid -discoloration known euphoneously as “black and blue.” - -Also, pressure applied over the seat of injury produces what Dr. George -W. Crile, of Cleveland, calls “blocked shock,” or “nerve block,” which -means that by pressing on the nerves running from the injured part to -the brain area we inhibit or prevent the transmission to the brain the -knowledge of injury. In other words, the hurt place can’t tell the -central telegraph station anything about the accident, because the -wires are down. - -Dr. Crile, and surgeons generally, now utilize this knowledge to -prevent shock during operations, by injecting cocain, or some -anesthetic solution around the course of the nerve trunk leading from -the place to be operated upon to the brain. - -But there is yet another reason, which we have found out only -yesterday. And this is zone analgesia. Pressure over any bony eminence -injured, or pressure applied upon the zones corresponding to the -location of the injury, will tend to relieve pain. - -And not only will it relieve pain, but if the pressure is strong -enough and long enough it will frequently produce an analgesia, or -insensibility to pain, or even a condition of anesthesia--in which -minor surgical operations may be successfully done. - -This, of course, is not an infallible or invariable result. Specialists -in zone therapy have found pressure effective in obliterating sensation -in about 65% of cases; while it will deaden pain, or make it more -bearable, in about 80%. - -In the hands of many who have tried these methods the percentage often -is much lower--because they haven’t learned how to apply it. For if the -operator doesn’t “hit” the proper areas or focal points he misses them -completely--and also misses results. - -In attempting the relief of pain by “working” from the fingers it -should also be emphasized that it makes a difference, too, whether -the upper and lower or the side surfaces of the joint are pressed. A -physician experimenting with the method was ready to condemn it because -he was unable to relieve a patient who complained of rheumatic pains -which centered on the outer side of the ankle-bone. The doctor grasped -the second joint of the patient’s right little finger and pressed -firmly for a minute on the top and bottom of the joint. (See Fig. 3.) -The pain persisted, and the doctor jeered at the method. - -[Illustration: FIG. 3.--Illustrating method of applying anterior and -posterior pressure to the finger joint.] - -A disciple of zone therapy smiled, and suggested that while the doctor -had the right finger, he had the right finger in the wrong grip. -The doctor was advised to press the sides of the finger (See Fig. 4), -instead of the top and bottom. This was done, and the pain disappeared -in two minutes. - -[Illustration: FIG. 4. Illustrating method of applying lateral pressure -to the finger joint.] - -This pressure therapy has an advantage over any other method of pain -relief, inasmuch as it has been proved that, in contradistinction to -opiates, when zone pressure relieves pain it likewise tends to remove -the cause of the pain, no matter where this cause originates. And -this in conditions where seemingly one would not expect to secure any -therapeutic, or curative, results. - -For instance, I recall a case of breast tumor, with two fairly -good-sized nodes, as large as horse chestnuts. This lady had made -arrangements to be operated upon by a prominent surgeon in Hartford, -but had postponed her operation a few weeks on account of the holidays. - -Meantime she had been instructed to make pressures with a tongue -depressor and with elastic bands (See Figures 17 and 5), for the relief -of the breast pain--which relief, by the way, was quite complete. After -a few weeks, this lady returned to her surgeon for further examination -and to complete arrangements for operation. Upon examining, however, -the surgeon found the growth so reduced in size that he expressed -himself as unwilling to operate, as he saw no necessity for operating. -The tumor has since completely disappeared--under these tongue pressure -treatments. This patient, and the name of the surgeon who saw her -“before and after,” are at the disposal of any physician who may regard -this plain unvarnished tale as an old wives’ chronicle. - -A small uterine fibroid made a similar happy exit, as a result of -pressures made on the floor of the mouth, directly under the center of -the tongue. This patient next made a regular practice of squeezing the -joints of her thumb, first and second finger, whenever she had nothing -else important to do. And the result infinitely more than justified the -means. - -Lymphatic enlargements, as painful glands in the neck, arm-pits, or -groin, yield even more rapidly to this zone pressure than do tumors. -And while no claims are made to the effect that cancer can be cured -by zone therapy, yet there are many cases in which pain has been -completely relieved, and the patients freed from the further necessity -of resorting to opiates. And in a few cases the growths have also -entirely disappeared. - -[Illustration: FIG 5.--Showing method of “rubber-banding” the fingers -for trouble in the first, second and third zones.] - -The growth of interest in this work is most encouraging. Dr. -FitzGerald and other physicians using zone therapy in their practice, -have had scores of letters from patients they have never even seen, but -who have written, expressing their appreciation for the relief secured -through instructions from some of their patients, or through following -out some suggestion from my articles in the magazines. - -I have reason to believe that there are now upwards of two hundred -physicians, osteopaths and dentists, using these methods every day, -with complete satisfaction to themselves and to their patients. - -And the number of laymen, and especially lay-women, who are preaching -the doctrine in their own households, and among their circle of -friends, must be legion. The adoption of the method is attended with -absolutely no danger or disagreeable results, and may be the means -of lengthening short lives and making good health catching. I, for -one, hope that the numbers of those who may be inclined to learn and -practice these methods upon themselves and upon the members of their -families may ever increase and multiply. For this is a big idea, and a -helpful one. Therefore, the more who make it their own the better for -the human race. We shall now let Dr. FitzGerald continue the argument. - - - - -CHAPTER II. - -THAT ACHING HEAD. - - -The next time you have a headache, instead of attempting to paralyze -the nerves of sensation with an opiate, or a coal tar “pain-deadener,” -push the headache out through the top of the head. It’s surprisingly -easy. - -[Illustration: FIG. 6.--Palate-pressor Electrode may be used with or -without electricity.] - -It merely requires that you press your thumb--or, better still, -some smooth, broad metal surface (See Fig. 6), as the end of a -knife-handle--firmly against the roof of the mouth, as nearly as -possible under the battleground--and hold it there for from three -to five minutes--by the watch. It may be necessary, if the ache is -extensive, to shift the position of the thumb or metal “applicator” so -as to “cover” completely the area that aches. - -Headaches and neuralgias, of purely nervous origin, not due to -poison from toxic absorption from the bowels, or to constipation, or -alcoholism, tumors, eye-strain, or some specific organic cause, usually -subside under this pressure within a few minutes. - -’Tis as easy as lying. Many patients cure their own or their friend’s -and relative’s headaches or neuralgic attacks in this manner. In their -own headaches they use their right or left thumb--depending upon -whether they are right or left-handed. In treating others, they use the -first and second fingers, pressing firmly under the seat of pain. - -Their “points of attack” may extend from the roots of the front -teeth--for a frontal headache--to the junction of the hard and soft -palate--for a pain in the back of the head. Or from the roots of the -right upper molars to those of the upper left molars, if the pain be in -the region of the temples or the side of the head. - -Only temporary results should be expected--or even complete failure--if -the pain is due to costiveness, eye-strain, or some persistent organic -condition--although even here the severity of the attack can usually be -modified. - -In those headaches excited by dental operations relief can almost -invariably be secured. Dr. Thomas J. Ryan of New York, and others -familiar with zone therapy (the science of relieving pain and curing -disease by pressures in the various “zones” affected by pain or -disease), almost uniformly cure headaches or neuralgias in their -patients in this manner. In medical practice the results are even more -miraculous. - -One of the worst cases yet treated by zone therapy was that of a lady -who had suffered from persistent headache for more than three years. -She had been to all the most prominent nerve specialists in the East, -and had also consulted several European experts. Her heart was in a -very dangerous condition, owing to the amount of antipyrin and other -headache powders she had taken. - -Her pain was located most generally in the forehead, and during the -height of the attacks extended up as far as the top of the head. - -It was not relieved by sleep--indeed, it was worse, if anything, after -such poor and inadequate sleep as she was able to get. This fact -eliminated eye-strain as a cause, for eye-strain headaches are almost -invariably better after a night’s rest. - -Every organ in the body had received a most thorough overhauling, and -still those headaches held the fort. So the diagnoses settled down into -“pain habit.” - -Christian Science, magnetic healing, faith cure, and most of the modern -medical fads had all been tried, without success. She was on the verge -of suicidal melancholia. - -The afternoon I first saw her she was almost in hysteria--her pain was -so acute. For when telephoning for her appointment she had been told -not to take any opiates--as they might “mask the symptoms,” and confuse -the diagnosis. - -Without stopping to question her, I washed my hands in an antiseptic -solution, placed the tips of the first and second fingers of my right -hand close against the roots of her incisor, or front teeth, held her -head rigidly with the left hand, and pressed firmly for two minutes. I -then moved my finger tips an inch further back on the hard palate, and -repeated the pressure for another two minutes. - -Releasing her, I stepped back, much as an artist might, in viewing a -piece of work that pleases him. That I was justified in so doing was -proved by the fact that, for the first time in three years, except when -under the complete influence of an opiate, this lady was absolutely -free from pain. - -I instructed her husband, who accompanied her, just where to make -the proper pressures when the pain returned, and within a week had a -report from him that there were now no further attacks of the neuralgic -headaches. This relief has persisted for more than a year. - -Headaches frequently respond to pressures exerted over the joints on -the thumb or fingers, or sometimes it may be necessary to “attack” it -from the inside of the nose, or from some other point of vantage in the -zone affected. - -As an illustration of how pain can be squeezed out of the head through -the fingers, a typical case, reported by Dr. George Starr White, of Los -Angeles, California, may be helpful. - -A lady suffered from a very severe headache on the top of her head, -which had persisted for more than three weeks. She had consulted -several doctors, who had given her “coal tars,” opiates, and -hypodermics, but the relief was only temporary. - -Dr. White told her nothing of what was contemplated, but took hold of -her hands, and began firmly pressing on the first, second and third -fingers--the pain being diffused over the frontal regions--at the same -time engaging her in conversation concerning her condition. - -After about three minutes he asked her if she would locate with her -hand just where the pain was. She hesitated, looked up, and said, “Do -you use mental therapy?” Then, after blinking perplexedly for half a -minute, she added: “For the first time in three weeks, except when I’ve -been under the influence of narcotics, the pain is entirely gone.” - -Dr. White told her to have someone repeat these finger pressures, at -the same time emphasizing that if she failed to get relief from this -method to come back. He has not seen her since. - -But the same condition in the same patient may not be cleared up from -the same point every time. For instance, if the pain is in the second -zone of the forehead, at one time we may stop it by “attacking” the -forefinger. The next time, however, pressure upon that finger might not -have the slightest effect, and we would have to go to the tongue or the -roof of the mouth to get results. Another time we might be successful -only from the nose--or by pressing the teeth of an aluminum comb on the -skull, above or below the seat of pain--and so on. - -Now, physicians have for many years, been consistently teaching our -patients and the public how not to get sick. Why not carry this -teaching to its only logical conclusion, and teach them how, by -perfectly safe and harmless means, they may, if sick, cure themselves -of their minor ailments? - -It would add marvelously to the sum total of health, happiness, and -economic efficiency if all headaches, for instance, which could be -cured by zone therapy were cured and kept cured--by spreading the -knowledge of how to keep them cured. - -We feel certain also that the medical profession, as soon as it is -generally informed concerning zone therapy, will eagerly welcome -the opportunity to promulgate the advantages of a safe and harmless -method of relieving headache and pain. And also of doing away with the -necessity for longer resorting to dangerous antipyrin or phenacetin -tablets and powders. This is a crusade worthy of their highest altruism -and noblest self-sacrifice. - - - - -CHAPTER III. - -CURING GOITRE WITH A PROBE. - - -One of the most obstinate disorders that afflict humanity--and one -which seems to be rapidly on the increase--is goitre. Goitre is a -general condition, in which the thyroid gland becomes progressively -enlarged, producing an unsightly swelling low down on the front of the -neck. - -Associated with this swelling--whether as a cause or as an effect no -one knows for a certainty--is a distressing state of nervousness, -apprehension, and general discomfort. - -Frequently the case becomes “exophthalmic” in type, running a pulse -of 150 or more to the minute, and later developing irregularities in -the heart’s action. In this form there is also a marked protrusion -of the eye-balls, from pressure behind the globes of the eye, due to -disturbances in the local circulation. - -Many causes have been assigned for goitre, but no one knows for certain -which is the correct one. Because of its prevalence in Switzerland and -in other mountainous regions, where the inhabitants are obliged to -depend upon water which was originally snow for their drinking supply, -it was thought that the condition arose as a result of the lack of lime -and other mineral salts ordinarily found in water which had been more -intimately in contact with the earth. Yet the feeding of these mineral -salts to those afflicted with goitre made no appreciable difference in -the condition of these patients. - -Other observers have ascribed goitre to the influence of -the nervous tension, under which we live in this era of -break-your-neck-to-get-there-and-do-it. Others locate the seat of this -disease in the brain itself, in the blood vessels, and in the blood; -others, who favor the so-called “mechanical theory,” ascribe the -symptoms to compression by an enlarged thyroid gland of the nerves and -vessels in the neck, although they neglect to tell us how the gland -became enlarged, in the first place. - -Many authorities claim that the trouble originates most frequently as -a result of eye strain. They insist that the visual centres, using as -they do, one-third of all the brain energy, are overworked, in our -intensive modern life, and react upon the body to produce the toxins -of fatigue. The thyroid body, one of whose functions it is to secrete -a product which tends to neutralize these toxins, works overtime on -the job, and not knowing when to quit, keeps right on working--with -the result that the system is overcharged with thyroid extract. This -thyroidism, as it is called, ultimately produces the goitrous symptoms. - -Other clinicians contend that the disease is of microbic origin--which -is quite unlikely--because when the glands have been brought to the -autopsy table and the pathological laboratory, microbes have not been -found in quantity sufficient to cause these grave symptoms. - -But what interests and discourages those afflicted most is that if the -cause is known, the successful treatment is even more unknown. - -Medical men have treated these conditions on the general supposition -that there was either too much or not enough thyroid extract secreted -and discharged into the circulation by the thyroid gland. - -So they gave thyroid tablets, made from the dried and pulverized glands -of sheep. If these diminished the intensity of the symptoms, the -doctors knew that the gland was deficient in its functioning powers, -and that furnishing an additional supply from the glands of our woolly -brothers would tend to restore the thyroid deficiency in us. - -If, on the other hand, thyroid medication aggravated the condition, -the physicians figured that the patient already had more thyroid -substance than he knew what to do with. Hence they administered iodine -in some of its combinations--generally as iodide of potash--in order to -bring about a more active condition of the glandular system, and assist -in the elimination of this extra thyroid secretion. - -If the gland still grew, and the symptoms became worse, there remained -the alternative of ligating or “tying off” the lobes, in order to -diminish the secreting power of the organ. Or, more radical, yet hardly -more generally effective, an operation was made--extirpating (cutting -out) a considerable portion of the body of the thyroid. - -This, as may be imagined, is a very serious operation, and fraught -with considerable danger. Not so much from the operation itself, as -from the consequences of the operation upon the psychological and -mental condition of the patient. Not infrequently the entire nature and -disposition of an individual may be changed by the apparently simple -procedure of removing a few cubic inches, or less, of tissue. - -So, on the whole, goitre has been a bugbear--most unsatisfactory -from every angle. Yet, with the proper application of the principles -of zone therapy, goitre--including the most advanced forms of -exophthalmic--is one of the many conditions we are most certain of -curing. - -Almost from the first treatment, the feeling of suffocation, the -distressing nervous symptoms and the pulse rate are favorably -influenced. In from two to eight months the “pop eye” and the swollen -gland are progressively reduced to normal. - -Up to this writing, I have had more than thirty cases, every one of -which, with two exceptions, have been cured and discharged, or are well -on the way towards a cure. The tape measure shows that in some of these -patients the swelling decreased three inches in as many weeks. One very -responsive case was reduced from 14-1/2 to 13 inches in less than three -days’ treatment. The photographs accompanying this chapter speak for -themselves. (See Figures 7 and 8.) There is no possibility of doubting -the actual accomplishments of this method in the face of these visual -demonstrations. And, as with all matters detailed in these pages, the -original patients and data may be seen by any medical man who is fairly -interested. - -[Illustration: FIG. 7. - -FIG. 8. - -FIGS. 7 and 8.--Photographs of patient from New Hampshire, who -consulted me April 1st, 1914, with well-marked bilateral goiter of -two years’ standing. Patient had had constant pressure and frequently -pain over sternum for three months, but responded quickly to distal -pressures, and was agreeably surprised to learn that the pain and -discomfort would disappear for hours after pressure as depicted in -illustration. Twice daily the patient exerted pressure on the posterior -wall of the epipharynx via the nostrils with a cotton-wound applicator -moistened with spirits of camphor--for its antiseptic effect merely. - -Patient returned to New Hampshire the first of May, after one month -treatment, or fifteen visits, considerably benefited. The growth had -entirely disappeared by the middle of June. The last photograph was -taken in Hartford, July 1st. Pressure through the thumbs and index and -middle fingers of both hands, (inasmuch as only three zones on a side -were involved), and pressure on the posterior walls of the epipharynx -with metal applicator alternately, which she continued at home, was the -only treatment she received.] - -The explanation for the non-relief of the two cases which did not -improve under treatment is simple--and very conclusive to those -familiar with the method and its workings. One of these two -non-benefited cases refused to carry out her “home treatment”. The -other was a patient suffering from an uterine tumor. This produced a -pathological condition in the goitre zone. Hence the goitre would not -yield until all other conditions influencing this zone were removed. I -sent this lady to a gynecologist and it is quite certain that, after -this tumor is removed, she will, under appropriate treatment, entirely -recover from her goitre. - -Dr. Reid Kellogg and Dr. Thomas Mournighan of Providence, R. I., Dr. -George Starr White of Los Angeles, Dr. Plank of Kansas City, and a -number of other medical men, have reported that they have the same -uniformly favorable results in treating goitre that we have here. - -Dr. Kellogg has had a dozen cases, all of which have been, or are -being, cured. It is interesting to note that one of his cases, also, a -lady suffering from a slight erosion of the neck of the womb, made no -progress until this condition was cleared up by proper local treatment. - -Dr. Mournighan has also reported on fifteen cases--eight of which were -of the exophthalmic variety--all improving or discharged as recovered. - -In treating goitre by zone therapy a thin probe, (See Fig. 9), the -point of which is wrapped in cotton dipped in a little alcohol, spirits -of camphor or camphor water (these seem to increase the “impulse”) -is passed through the nostrils to the posterior or back wall of the -pharynx. Pressure is made in various spots “low down” on this wall -(a little practice will soon determine almost the exact “spot” to -probe), until a definite sensation is felt in the region of the goitre. -Sometimes this is “metallic”. Or it may be a sensation of cold, or -tickling, or like an electric current, or else a mild pain. - -[Illustration: FIG. 9.--Special type of nasal probe used for attacking -the posterior wall of the nasopharynx.] - -[Illustration: FIG. 10.--Dr. White’s Uni-Polar Post-Nasal Electrode for -Zone Therapy. May be used with or without electricity.] - -This pressure is held for several minutes--repeated three or four times -daily. It can be done just as well by the patient himself, if he has -the courage to hurt himself a trifle. In addition to the treatment -on the pharyngeal wall, pressures may be made upon the joints of the -thumb, first and second fingers, as shown in Figures 3 and 4. Or, if -the goitre is a very broad one, and extends over into the fourth zone, -the ring finger must also be employed. A moderately tight rubber band, -worn upon these fingers for ten or fifteen minutes, (see Fig. 5), -three or four times daily, will also help. Rubber bands may also be -worn with benefit upon the toes governing the zones involved. But -the treatment must be persistent. It must be the intent to keep the -goitre zone “quieted,” never allowing it, except during sleep, to come -completely out of the influence of the pressure. And even during sleep -in aggravated cases, moderate pressure should be continued. - -I would especially emphasize the importance of seeing that the teeth -are put in a perfect condition before attempting the cure of any case -of goitre. For there is no doubt that the evil influence of bad teeth -is not, by any means, confined to the throat and tonsils, as many -observers contend. Indeed, I do not recall having ever seen a goitre -case in which there was not something wrong with the teeth. I therefore -make a routine practice of sending all goitre patients to their -dentists for a thorough overhauling of their teeth when commencing -treatment. - -Also, it may be interesting here to note that if the theory of eye -strain causation of goitre is true--and it seems quite likely that, -in many cases, it may be--pressure therapy may logically be looked -for to give satisfactory results. For the effects of eye strain can -undoubtedly be relieved by pressure exerted on the first and second -fingers, as we shall show in the next chapter. - -So one of the most puzzling and unsatisfactory conditions with which -physicians have had to deal can now be said to be almost invariably -curable. And the only instruments we need to operate these grave -conditions are a straight steel probe, a few rubber bands, and the -patient’s fingers. - - - - -CHAPTER IV. - -FINGER SQUEEZING FOR EYE TROUBLES. - - -If your eyes pain, close them lightly--or leave them open, if you -prefer--and squeeze tightly the knuckles of the first (or index) -fingers of both hands. Occasionally, if the eyes are set far apart and -extend over into the third zone, the second (or middle) finger must -be included in this digital embrace. But as a general rule pressure -on the upper and lower surfaces, as well as on the sides of the first -and second fingers will, within five minutes, relieve the pain of eye -strain. Understand, I say “relieve”, not “cure”. For if the eye strain -is the result of a too constant attendance at “movie” shows, and due -to the fact that the little eye muscles are expanding and contracting -hundreds of times a minute in an attempt to “focus” upon the -flickering screen, the only cure for this strain is to “cut out” these -entertainments, or else patronize a movie house where the flicker has -been “cut out.” Of course, if the eye strain is the result of imbalance -of the muscles of the eye it will be necessary to properly adjust this -faulty focus by reinforcing the lens of the eye with a supplementary -one made of glass. - -But for temporary relief firm pressure over the joints of the first -and second fingers, continued for several minutes, will usually give -results. - -Eye strain and muscle tire are largely under the control of the nervous -system. If the nerves are fatigued, the muscles function imperfectly. -If the muscles are wearied the nerves sympathize, and make the fact -known by raising a wail of distress. - -And so it follows that a skeptic is legitimately entitled to say “Yes, -you zone therapists cure eye strain by squeezing fingers or toes, but -as the condition is primarily a nervous one, you really cure it by -suggestion.” - -This, notwithstanding the fact that frequently the patient has no idea -as to what is being attempted, and doesn’t, until his pain is relieved, -know why any one should want to squeeze his fingers. - -Also, I would urgently recommend any believer in the “suggestion” or -“mental” response of eye pains to omit pressures over the first and -second fingers to try and help this condition by squeezing the thumb -and little finger, and see what they accomplish. - -However, accepting the extreme position of some of our friends, -and admitting that all eye strain is imagination--or an error of -the mind--I would ask them to consider the pert, prominent, and -resolutely determined stye--which is certainly not imaginary, nor -merely suggested. Also inflammatory conditions of the conjunctiva--the -membrane of the eye and lids--and that irritating and extremely -annoying affliction known as granulated lids. - -It might be considered a crucial test of imagination to dissipate and -clear up these conditions, yet zone therapy does just this. For sties -and such eye conditions as conjunctivitis and granulated lids are -completely relieved by pressure exerted upon the joints of the first -and second finger of the hand corresponding to the eye involved. In -sties the relief is frequently complete in one or two treatments. In -other inflammatory conditions of the mucous membranes of the eye it may -be necessary to give treatments three times a week for several weeks. -Also, a bandage fastened around the index fingers, and soaked with -camphor water, frequently relieves itching and congestion of the eyes. - -Favorable results are almost routine in these troubles, and usually -without employing any other measures. For facilitating treatment, -however--unless the results of the exclusive use of zone therapy are -desired for experimental reasons,--it might be well to use hot boric -acid compresses, or other indicated measures, in addition to the -pressures. - -To go still farther I might state a fact that every doctor will -immediately admit. And this is, that inflammation of the optic -nerve--optic neuritis--is most decidedly not imaginary, nor is it, -so far as I know, cured by telling the patient that there is nothing -the matter with him. As a usual thing, whether treated or not, one -afflicted with optic neuritis goes on to complete blindness. - -Yet we have cured optic neuritis by making pressures over the first and -second fingers, and over the inferior dental nerve--where it enters the -lower jaw bone. - -One patient I have in mind, who had been treated without benefit -by several competent medical men, using conventional and accepted -methods, received no other form of treatment--no local applications, no -antiseptics. Yet relief followed almost immediately after the pressures -were made. The woman was treated twice the first day. That night she -slept without taking an opiate--something she had not done before in -several weeks. - -A complete cure of her condition was brought about within a week, and -now, after the expiration of six months, there has been no return of -her symptoms. - -For the benefit of physician readers I should like to add that in -treating eye strain, conjunctivitis, sties, granulated lids, and -eye conditions generally, pressures made with a blunt probe, (see E -Fig. 11) on the muco-cutaneous margins (where the skin joins the mucous -membrane in the nostrils) affects the second division of the ophthalmic -nerve, and assists materially in bringing about a favorable influence -in eye troubles. - -I would also emphasize the importance of seeing that the condition of -the eye teeth was perfect, as frequently some chronic inflammatory eye -trouble may be caused by an infection from the roots of the canine -teeth. - -In order permanently to cure anything its cause must be removed. And it -stands to reason that if a patient persists in poisoning himself with -coffee, tobacco, or alcohol; or suffers from an impoverished condition -of the blood, or from a brain tumor, lead poisoning, or an injury, or -has some constitutional or organic disease or some spinal lesion, which -is the basis for his eye trouble, permanent relief will not follow -unless these causes are removed or corrected. - -[Illustration: Non-Electrical Applicators Useful in Zone Therapy - -_*A*_ is an ordinary surgical clamp which can be used for clamping the -tongue. - -_*B*_ is an ordinary eye-muscle retractor. This can be used for -intermittently retracting the posterior pillars of the fauces. - -_*C*_ is a special type of nasal probe used for attacking the posterior -wall of the nasopharynx. - -_*D*_ is a regular palpebral retractor which can be used for -intermittently retracting the soft palate, especially in the region of -the fossa of Rosenmüller. - -_*E*_ is a regular flat applicator bent up at one end. This is useful -about the throat and fauces. It can be used as a pressure applicator -for the posterior wall of the oropharynx. - -_*F*_ is an ordinary aluminum comb used for attacking the fingers or -toes either at the tips or about the joints. - -FIG. 11.] - -But if he has a condition due to an excess of nerve or muscle -tension, or if he has trouble produced by faulty circulation from -any cause, squeezing his fingers will come nearer to curing him--and -more expeditiously and satisfactorily--than any other treatment. If -you don’t believe it, try it. It costs nothing but a few minutes’ -intelligent effort. - - - - -CHAPTER V. - -MAKING THE DEAF HEAR. - - -Too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. For it keeps one thus -afflicted from acquiring more. - -Of course it seems outlandish and quite beyond the pale of reason, to -ask a man who can minutely describe the semi-circular canals of the -ear, or bound the internal labyrinth on the north, south, east and -west, to believe that by pressing with a blunt probe behind the wisdom -tooth, or at the angle of the jaw on the upper surface, the hearing -of the adjacent ear can be materially benefited. Or that a similar -result would follow squeezing upon the joints of the ring finger, -or the toe corresponding to the ring finger. And this, after every -other scientifically accredited method, administered by the world’s -greatest specialists, had failed. Yet such is the fact. For it is the -experience of physicians, familiar with the practice and principles of -zone therapy, that nine out of ten cases of otosclerosis (thickening -or chronic congestion of the membranes of the ear) can be improved -from 25% to 90%. And, that ringing in the ears and “ear noises,” or -catarrhal deafness, can be relieved in an even larger number of cases. -If there is any hearing left at all, these methods are almost certain -to improve it. - -General practitioners, osteopaths and dentists, who do not know so much -about the geography of the ear as does the ear specialist, have no -hesitation in “trying out” these methods, frequently with astonishing -results. - -One dentist of my acquaintance, whose knowledge of the ear is merely -academic, has cured or materially improved the hearing of more than -twenty of his patients. This he did by instructing them to tuck a -“wad” of absorbent lint, or a handkerchief, in the space between the -last tooth and the angle of the jaw, and “bite down hard” upon this -substance for several minutes, repeating this procedure two or three -times daily. - -Some medical men cause these patients to “work” on the ring finger on -the side involved, and do almost as well. - -It may better serve our purposes, by way of illustration, were I to -cite a few specific cases, and detail their exact manner of treatment. -It may then be easier to put the teaching into practical application, -following exactly the treatment as outlined. - -A lady, the wife of an ear specialist, was recently brought to me for -deafness. The doctor, having tried unsuccessfully every accredited -method, was constrained to “see what zone therapy would do.” - -For thirty years this patient had heard nothing with the right ear, -and very little with the left. I stimulated, with a stiff, curved -cotton-tipped probe (instrument shown in Fig. 6 may be used), the -area lying between the last tooth and the angle of the jaw--carefully -“covering” all the gum surfaces--sides as well as biting surfaces. - -In addition, I hooked an instrument behind the soft palate (see D, -Fig. 11), and “stretched” it gently forward. This, I have found, -powerfully stimulates the circulation of the “ear zones,” and is most -helpful--particularly in catarrhal deafness. After two treatments this -patient could hear a small tuning fork one-half inch away from the -right ear, and one inch from the left. After a few more treatments, her -hearing so wonderfully improved that she could hear a whisper with the -right ear. This after being “stone deaf” in that ear for thirty years, -and after having visited “all the noted aurists in this country and -abroad.” - -A young soprano, member of a leading Hartford church choir, suffered a -progressive loss in hearing, which finally became so pronounced as to -make it almost impossible for her to “sing on the pitch,” or harmonize -with either the organ or the other quartette members. - -She received treatment similar to that employed on the aurist’s wife, -supplementing the same by “home treatment.” This consisted in “tucking” -a wad of surgeon’s gauze (it has since been discovered that a solid -rubber eraser gives even better results) in the space back of the -wisdom tooth, and having her bite forcibly upon it, repeating the -procedure several times daily--especially immediately before singing -or rehearsing. In a few weeks this girl had completely recovered her -hearing, and was able to accept an engagement with a traveling concert -company, a position very much more remunerative than the church -position she resigned. - -I have had to date possibly fifty cases of deafness of one kind or -another, almost all of which have been materially helped. - -One patient, a minister afflicted with otosclerosis (this supposed -thickening of the membranes of the inner ear) for twenty-five years, -could barely hear loud talking. - -After working for five minutes upon the joints of the third (ring) -finger, and to a lesser degree, upon its two neighbors, it was found -that the reverend gentleman could hear a whisper twenty feet away. - -As proof of this it was whispered to him “Will you kindly close the -window above your head?” He rose immediately from his chair, and -“obliged.” - -A New York physician had a relative who had been unsuccessfully treated -for deafness in one ear (the right) for the past sixteen years, by -the most famous aurists in New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dresden, -Vienna, and other centers of medical learning. X-Ray treatment had at -one time made this case at least twenty-five per cent worse. With the -left ear this patient could hear a loud voice “close up.” - -Dr. Reid Kellogg volunteered to “show the Doctor something,” using this -case for demonstration purposes. - -The Doctor, like Barkis, being willin’, our friend took his trusty -aluminum comb from his pocket and exerted pressure for five minutes -with the teeth of the comb on the finger tips of the patient’s left -hand, (see Fig. 12). He then used a tongue depressor on the hard -palate, and on the floor of the mouth, for six or seven minutes more, -and then on the tongue for an additional five. - -The Doctor then stood ten feet away from his relative and talked to -him in an ordinary tone of voice. The patient distinctly heard, with -the left ear, every word spoken. - -[Illustration: FIG. 12.--This illustrates one method of treating the -bones and deep seated conditions generally. Pressure on the tips of -the fingers influences both anterior and posterior aspects of second, -third, fourth and fifth zones.] - -Our pupil then started to work on the other hand. The patient insisted -that this was merely a waste of time, as the “biggest” ear specialists -in Europe had failed upon this. However, the attempt was made, and -within ten minutes the patient heard a clock a foot away, a watch held -three inches distant from his ear, and he further was able to repeat -words spoken loudly two feet away. During the experiments with his -right ear, the left was tightly plugged with cotton, still further -wedged in the canal by the physician’s finger. So this was a rather -conclusive test. - -A lady, aged forty-nine, deaf since she was six years old, came to the -office of a specialist who had studied zone therapy. When the physician -applied a comb to one hand, she put the other to one side of her -lips--the side the doctor was on--and whispered to her friend “Crank.” -Twenty minutes later, being then able to hear ordinary conversation, -she whispered again. This time she said “Wizard.” A few days later she -asked a friend riding with her in a street car if the bell always rang -when the conductor pulled the strap. She was hearing it for the first -time in her life. - -One lady came to this doctor with her husband. They were both deaf. -But the baby in her arms was not deaf--and most decidedly was not dumb -either. In less than a fortnight’s treatment both parents could hear -the baby cry every night, which was a great satisfaction to them--in -one way. But they don’t know yet whether to laugh or cry about it. - -Dr. Thomas Mournighan has given me the details of two remarkable cases, -one a veteran of sixty-eight, who, since the Civil War, has been deaf -from gun concussion. This man had never heard through the telephone, -the perfection and general use of which dates since the war. - -After making pressure with a probe (applicator shown in Fig. 6 may be -used) on the gum margins near the angle of the jaw this gentleman was -able to hear through a ’phone--the first time he had ever experienced -this pleasure. That it was a pleasure was evidenced by the fact that -the old soldier danced around the office in a perfect transport of glee. - -The Doctor’s own father, whose condition was similar to that of the -other patient, also developed a very material increase in his ability -to hear. - -It is but fair to say, however, that the patient’s “home treatments” -must be persistent in order to maintain this improvement. If these -treatments are discontinued for any appreciable length of time the -condition seems to relapse. We are not yet prepared to say why this -should be so. - -I would emphasize also that, in ear trouble, the condition of wisdom -teeth be carefully looked after. For, I am convinced, many cases of -loss of hearing, or middle ear trouble, have their origin in some -pathological condition of these teeth. - -It may be of interest here to note also that one of the most effective -ear-ache cures we possess is a spring clothespin fastened for five -minutes or thereabouts on the tip of the ring finger. (See Fig. 13.) -Any manipulation over this zone is effective, but hollowed-out spring -clothespins and rubber bands have been particularly so. - -[Illustration: FIG. 13.--Showing method of applying hollowed out spring -clothespins for the relief of pain and to desensitize the teeth for -dental operations.] - -To illustrate: During a recent medical convention in the West one of -the physicians attending complained of a severe ear-ache. A physician -present, well versed in zone therapy, requested permission to examine -the ear-ache doctor’s fingers, alleging that by pressing intermittently -on the finger nails, he could estimate the degree of blood pressure, -and perhaps suggest a course of treatment which might permanently cure -the ear trouble--if not caused by an abscess. - -The doctor extended the hand on the side of the afflicted ear. - -The zone therapy man squeezed the tip of the fourth finger, raised the -finger nail, and let it settle back a dozen or more times, “to see how -the circulation reacted,” as he said. After three or four minutes -he said “By the way, Doctor, which ear did you say is giving you the -trouble?” - -The Doctor looked up in blank amazement, felt his ears, shook his head, -and said, “You don’t mean to say that that darned foolishness cured my -ear-ache, do you?” - -It does seem silly, and yet it “works.” And anything that works is -beneficent and helpful, and deserves encouragement. For deafness and -ear troubles are common, and seem to be becoming more so. - - - - -CHAPTER 6. - -PAINLESS CHILDBIRTH. - - -Any method, no matter how improbable-seeming it may be, calculated to -render labor or operations upon women less of an ordeal, is worthy of -consideration by physicians, midwives, and the laity. Therefore there -may be something well worth “trying out” in the “pressure” method of -inducing relief from pain. - -A number of physicians have reported results that, if confirmed by -further experiences, warrant us in believing that zone pressure -promises to be a boon to womankind. - -To those who have had experience with pressure analgesia in dentistry, -and in the relief of rheumatism, lumbago, neuralgia, and other painful -affections, mitigating--or even entirely relieving--the pains of -childbirth seem quite within the bounds of possibility. In any event, -it will not be difficult to put it to a broad conclusive test. And it -is absolutely harmless, there is no danger to mother or child in its -employment, and no indication that it might be responsible for a “blue -baby.” For in almost every case in which it has been tried, labor has -been accelerated six hours or more--instead of retarded. - -[Illustration: FIG. 14.--This shows method of treating lumbago and -pains in the back of the body, affecting all the zones.] - -The methods are so simple that they can be utilized by any one--even -by women who may, in their hour of labor, chance to be remote from -medical attention. Two combs (broad aluminum combs about four inches in -length have been found to be the best) to clench the fingers and thumbs -over (see Fig. 14), and some sharp or edged surface to press the soles -of the feet against (see Fig. 15), are all the instruments that are -required, altho a clamp has now been devised (see Fig. 16) which can -be fastened on the hands to include both surfaces and all zones. It is -applied when contractions begin, and is kept in position intermittently -until delivery is completed. Rubber bands, bound around the great and -“index” toes, also afford a gratifying help. - -To relieve the after-pains and facilitate the expulsion of the -afterbirth, it has been found that “stimulating” strokes, with the -teeth of the aluminum comb, or the “bristles” of a wire hair brush, are -most effective. It may require that these strokes be given from ten -minutes to one-half hour. But they assist wonderfully in contracting -the uterus. - -[Illustration: Valens Disc Zone-Analgesic with Rope Attachment - -An extension rope can be used on these applicators and attached to -the foot of the bed so a patient, during confinement, can grasp one -applicator in each hand and make traction. - -This device can also be used in Zone Therapy for Sciatica by having the -patient place the foot over the wooden discs and “hang on to the rope” -with the hand. - -FIG. 15.] - -[Illustration: FIG. 16.--This is the hand clamp used with such -extraordinary success in relieving the pains of childbirth.] - -Dr. R. T. H. Nesbitt, of Waukegan, Ill., is one of a number of -physicians who have had practical experience with pressure analgesia -in childbirth. He sends this very interesting report: - -“During the past week I have been attending the lectures of Dr. George -Starr White. In this most interesting and helpful series, Dr. White -explained and exemplified biodynamic diagnosis by means of the magnetic -meridian (a remarkable discovery of Dr. White, which enables one to -diagnose diseases otherwise undiagnosible. This by means of changes -in the “tension” of organs--which occurs when a properly grounded -patient is turned from North or South to East or West). Dr. White also -demonstrated zone therapy. He asked if any of the doctors present -expected a confinement case soon. If so, he wished to give them some -suggestions in zone anesthesia in connection with delivery. - -“As I was expecting a ‘call’ every hour I told Dr. White, and he gave -me some special points concerning this work. Last night I was called -to attend what I expected would be my last case in confinement, as I -have been doing this work so many years that I intended to retire. From -my last night’s experience I feel as if I should like to start the -practice of medicine all over again. - -“The woman I delivered was a primipara (one who had never had a child -before, and who therefore, because of the rigidity of the bones and -tissues, has a more difficult labor), small in stature. - -“When severe contractions began, and the mother was beginning to -be very nervous and complained of pain, at which time I generally -administer chloroform, I began pressing on the soles of the feet -with the edge of a big file, as I could find nothing else. I -pressed on the top of the foot with the thumbs of both hands at the -metatarsal-phalangeal joint, (where the toes join the foot). I exerted -this pressure over each foot for about three minutes at a time. -The mother told me that the pressure on the feet gave her no pain -whatsoever. - -“As she did not have any uterine pain, I was afraid there was no -advancement. To my great surprise, when I examined her about ten or -fifteen minutes later, I found the head within two inches of the -outlet. I then waited about fifteen minutes, and on examination found -the head at the vulva. I then pressed again for about one or two -minutes on each foot, the edge of the file being on the sole of the -foot, and my thumbs over the tarsal-metatarsal joints as before. In -this way I exerted pressure on the sole of the foot with the file, and -pressure on the dorsum of the foot with my thumbs, doing each foot -separately. The last pressure lasted about one and a half minutes to -each foot. Within five or ten minutes the head was appearing, and I -held it back to preserve the perineum (the tissue joining the vagina -and the rectum). It made steady progress, the head and shoulders coming -out in a normal manner. Within three minutes the child--which “weighed -in” at 9-1/2 pounds--was born, crying lustily. The mother told me she -did not experience any pain whatever, and could not believe the child -was born. She laughed and said, ‘This is not so bad.’ - -“Another point that is very remarkable is that after the child was -born, the woman did not experience the fatigue that is generally felt, -and the child was more active than usual. I account for this on the -principle that pain inhibits (prevents) progress of the birth, and -tires the child. But as the pain was inhibited, the progress was more -steady, and thus fatigue to both mother and child was avoided.” - -A Massachusetts doctor supplements this case with several -others--equally ridiculous or revolutionary--depending upon our -viewpoint. To insure brevity and accuracy I quote the Doctor’s own -words. - -“Case 1. Multipara (a woman who has had previous confinements)--mother -of four. Shortest previous labor eight hours. Had had a laceration -of cervix (neck of the womb) with her first child. Also one forceps -delivery. - -“When labor commenced she was given two aluminum combs to hold (as -shown in Fig. 14), and instructed to make strong pressure upon them, -with a view of inhibiting pains, particularly in the first, second -and third zones. These combs were four inches in length and slightly -roughened on the ends, so that the lateral (or side) surfaces of the -thumbs could more effectively be stimulated. - -“Was called at four a.m., arrived at 5:05, and the babe had just -been born. The patient reported that she had been in bed for only 15 -minutes. There had been only one severe pain. This was when the head -delivered. - -“There was no exhaustion following, as with her previous labors, and -she said laughingly, ‘I believe I’ll be able to get up this afternoon. -Doctor.’ - -“The afterbirth delivery seemed to be stimulated, and the pains -controlled by stroking the backs of the hands with the teeth of the -combs. She became relaxed and drowsy from this stroking, and finally -fell asleep and slept almost through the night--perfectly free from -pain. - -“Case 2. Primipara, thirty-seven years old. This woman had a badly -retroflexed uterus (a womb which is tilted back), which seemed to -retard the advancement of labor, for she required five hours for -delivery. - -“She also used the comb pressures, and, in addition, was provided with -a rough-edged shallow box, upon which she pressed firmly with the soles -of her feet. - -“Four hours after delivery she had sharp afterbirth pains, which were -controlled by the stroking method before described. This seemed to give -complete and satisfactory relaxation. - -“There were three other cases, all of which responded equally well to -treatment by zone analgesia. - -“It should be added that, while the pain was inhibited, there seemed to -be no diminution in the strength of the uterine contractions.” - -Dr. Thomas Mournighan, of Providence, R. I., has been, for more than -two years, one of the staunchest advocates of my methods. He has -had phenomenally successful experiences in goiter, deafness, female -irregularities, and in the relief of pain and cure of conditions in the -general practice of medicine. - -Dr. Mournighan has also had almost uniformly successful results with -zone analgesia in childbirth. I quote from a few of his cases. - -“Case 1. Primipara, nineteen years of age. Suffered from furious -attacks of vomiting at the beginning of her pregnancy. Her family -physician wanted to abort her, fearing for her life, unless the attacks -were checked. - -“She finally came under my care. I instructed her to bite her tongue -as hard as she could, about one-third the distance from the tip--thus, -as you see, ‘attacking’ the entire zone connection. This procedure -controlled the vomiting almost immediately, and instead of becoming -accustomed to it, thereby losing its beneficial effect, she became, if -anything, even more susceptible to its influence. - -“When she came to term I placed a rough-edged box in the bed, for her -to press the soles of her feet on. I also provided her with a sheet, -tied to the bed post, which she gripped and pulled upon during pains. -This, I feel certain, helps pain relief by zone analgesia--as well as -by assisting in the mechanics of labor. She made traction upon the -sheets and pressed her feet on the box as the condition seemed to -require, and, as she expressed it, ‘got great comfort from it.’ - -“When the second stage of labor came on--that stage where I generally -resort to chloroform--I made strong pressure over the feet, sinking my -thumbs well in over the articulation of the toe and foot joint. She was -delivered in less than five hours. The afterbirth came away without the -slightest pain. I was peculiarly struck by the almost complete absence -of labor exhaustion.” - -“Case 2. Mother aged forty, ninth child. She had had ‘the devil’s own -time’ with the last three or four, the attendant having been compelled -to use forceps in these births. With her last child she had had a bad -laceration of the cervix, which, however, had been skillfully repaired. - -“I gave her two aluminum combs, the edges of which I had nicked with a -file, so as to roughen them for the thumb to press over. There being -no box handy I covered a coal shovel with a towel, and, when the pains -became severe, let her press the soles of her feet against the sharp -edge of this. - -“Within 3 hours she was delivered--without forceps this time--of a -10-1/2 pound boy--as clean a delivery as I ever saw. - -“I know it seems crazy, but any method that will, practically without -pain, stimulate women who were formerly in labor for from twelve to -fifteen hours to complete delivery--in many instances within three -hours--is a good method. I shall continue its use, no matter how -foolish it may appear.” - -Another physician, who has had a large and successful experience with -zone therapy, writes: - -“In obstetrics I have almost completely discarded chloroform at the -close of the second stage, where I used to almost always use it. In the -first stage, zone therapy relieves the nagging pains without retarding, -but rather promoting dilatation. In the second stage delivery is -hastened. Women seem so quiet and easy one would think ‘there was -nothing doing,’ until on examination, you are surprised to see what has -been accomplished. For this work I use a serrated strip of aluminum -1/16 in. thick, imbedded in a piece of wood of convenient size, or else -I use a seven inch aluminum comb, pressing the teeth against the inner -part of the sole of the foot, or near the ball, alternating from one -foot to the other. When I have an assistant both feet are manipulated -at a time, and that aids very materially. I exert as much pressure -as the patient can bear without pain. When I have an assistant well -trained I am going to try zone therapy for instrumental delivery.” - -In connection with the subject of confinement and operations upon women -this report from Dr. G. Murray Edwards, of Denver, Colorado, is of -peculiar interest: - -“Mrs. McK., age 35; pregnant four and a half months; multipara. -Placenta praevia (a grave condition, in which the afterbirth precedes -the child in delivery), aborted Dec. 5, 1915, curettement (scraping -out of the uterus), Dec. 7, 1915. Temperature 99, pulse 80. This -case occurring during Dr. White’s lecture course in Denver, when Dr. -Fitzgerald’s pressure method of analgesia was being discussed, I -decided to try it out for the first time on this patient. She being a -very nervous woman, I felt a little reluctant in the experiment. I did -not tell her, however, I was going to use a new method, but quietly -placed three elastics, an eighth of an inch wide, on each foot, one -around the large toe at the first joint, and one around the others -similarly in pairs. - -“After fifteen minutes, preparing my instruments in the meantime, I -told her we were ready, and while we did not intend to use chloroform, -instructed her carefully to tell me immediately if she felt any pain -whatsoever. The curettement was conducted in every detail as though she -were under general anesthesia, and as I questioned her frequently as to -pain, she always came back with a smile and a negative reply. - -“We removed fully a teacupful of placental tissue in about ten minutes, -while the patient passed the time joking, and when finished assured me -she felt much better than when we started, as she was nervous looking -forward to the anesthetic. This I consider a typical case, and have no -misgivings as to its working generally.” - -In similar strain scores of letters tell of the successes attending the -employment of this method in labor, and in operations upon women. - -Now, I do not contend that a few score, or a few hundred swallows make -a summer, but their presence undoubtedly indicates that summer may be -well on the way. - -All this may sound foolish in the extreme. Yet there are many other -things equally foolish in the practice of medicine. And if zone -analgesia will do what we claim for it, it may well be taken gently -by the hand, lifted out of the foolish class, and placed among the -ultra-sensible procedures--where, by right, it belongs. - - - - -CHAPTER 7. - -ZONE THERAPY FOR WOMEN. - - -In the eternal fitness of things there would be something radically -wrong if zone therapy did not offer some especial and particular help -to women. It is a satisfaction to state that the eternal fitness of -things is right, as usual. For zone therapy is as unique in this -connection as in most of its other applications. - -Many of the things it does are positively startling. And yet they -become commonplace, after one has been in the work for a time. One of -the most striking cases that has yet come to my attention came in the -form of a letter of thanks from a mother of a young girl. I never saw -either. The mother, however, wrote me that her daughter, who had not -menstruated in ten months, was, some time ago, instructed by a patient -of mine to take the broad handle of a tablespoon and make strong -pressure upon the tongue (a tongue depressor shown in Fig. 17 would be -more appropriate), as far back as she could stand it without gagging. - -She did so, and within five minutes was menstruating profusely, yet -without the slightest pain or discomfort. In the several months which -had since intervened, she “came around” regularly every twenty-eight -days. The mother who feared that her daughter was going into a -decline, could not refrain from writing me a most heartfull letter of -appreciation for what my patient, through my instruction, had been able -to do for her daughter. I call this good preventive medicine. - -[Illustration: FIG. 17. Tongue-pressor Electrode. May be used with or -without electricity.] - -Painful menstruation (dysmenorrhoea), also yields like magic to the -potent pressure of a probe applied to the posterior (back) wall of -the pharynx. But the tongue pressures are, in the majority of cases, -quite as effective. For pain in the back or thighs, preceding or -during menstruation, pressure with the tip of the index finger on the -posterior wall of the pharynx on the median line and to the right and -left of same, will almost uniformly give relief. - -A broad, rough-surfaced tongue depressor (see Fig. 17) is best for the -purpose. But if this is not available, the handle of a large spoon or -the handle of a tooth brush may be used. - -This should be applied to the tongue three-quarters of the way back -and on the median line. The patient’s head should be held rigid, and -the lower jaw supported, to the end that stronger pressure can be -made. It is well to have the physician or some male member of the -family officiate in this, as the patient may not be inclined to use the -requisite amount of force. - -The pressure should be held firmly for two minutes. Then it should be -relaxed and the point of focus changed slightly. Or the instrument may -be turned or rotated from side to side, at one minute intervals. - -Many patients who are obliged to go to bed for two or three days each -month, after a course of this treatment, are completely relieved of -all distress. Indeed, some of these hardly knew they were “coming -sick.” - -It might be added that pressure exerted on the thumb, first and second -fingers of both hands helps materially in this work. And one of the -most comforting factors in the practice is that patients are usually -quite as well the next morning as they are even directly after the most -successful treatment. - -Occasionally the use of the metal comb on the back of the hand, -“combing” thoroly the region of the thumb, first and second fingers as -far as to the wrists--has given best results. But the tongue pressures -are most uniformly successful. - -While I have seldom heard of a miscarriage being induced by these -pressures, yet I believe a note of warning should be sounded, -cautioning against the use of the tongue pressures, particularly during -the early months of pregnancy. - -For it is quite conceivable that abortion might follow drastic tongue -treatment. It would be far better during these months to depend upon -the finger pressures or the comb for treatment of these zones. - -Also, if there is a too-profuse and too-frequent menstruation, severe -tongue pressures should be avoided. In these conditions gentle stroking -on the backs of the hands with a wire hair brush or the teeth of the -metal comb has given best results. And this same procedure may be -confidently resorted to to prevent threatened abortion. - -While not confined to women, yet women are by far more generally -afflicted with constipation and hemorrhoids than are men. Their -sedentary habits, tight lacing, and repugnance to water drinking make -them peculiarly susceptible to the costive habit--which in turn, -through engorgement of the hemorrhoidal veins, causes piles. - -I mention these subjects here because the treatment for constipation -and hemorrhoids is identical with that given for painful or suppressed -menstruation. - -The results in constipation are, in some instances, absolutely -astonishing. I know of one woman, constipated for fifteen years, who -never knew what it meant to have a natural movement of the bowels. She -grasped the chair seat with the tips of her fingers and thumbs, putting -all her strength into this grip--so as partly to desensitize the -pain of tongue pressure, and thereby be able to stand a more drastic -treatment. Then the tongue was firmly pressed for nine minutes in the -manner before described. - -Her bowels moved within fifteen minutes afterwards, and for a year or -longer she has never had to take another cathartic. Another case was -cleared up two years ago, and has had no return of the former trouble. - -These, however, are the extraordinary and exceptional cases. -For routine treatment it may be well to use the pressures for a -considerable period of time, so that their stimulating effect may -tend to create a “habit” in the peristaltic muscles of the bowel. For -the cure cannot be considered complete until this “habit” is firmly -established. - -The pain, bleeding and swelling of piles is also helped by these same -procedures. - -The point to be most emphatically dwelt upon in connection with -the treatment of these conditions is that “absent treatment,” or -lick-and-a-promise namby-pambyism, isn’t of any avail. The pressures -must be made by some one who has more sympathy with the patient’s -ultimate good than he has for her present temporary discomfort, and who -will administer a good honest treatment--preferably while the patient -does all she can--by tightly clasping the hands on the interlocked -fingers, or by grasping the chair or a table with the finger tips--to -reduce the sensitivity of the zones operated upon. - -If zone therapy is used in this manner, the results will amaze and -delight. For no method yet evolved for the treatment of these disorders -even remotely approximates zone therapy in point of efficacy. - - - - -CHAPTER 8. - -RELAXING NERVOUS TENSION. - - -Perhaps you may not do it. You have such splendid control over -yourself. But you know many people who, when angry, or when suffering -great physical pain, sink their teeth into their lip. Sometimes they -bite hard enough to start the blood. Others clinch their teeth and -hands, and double their toes up in their shoes. Why do you suppose -they do this? They do these, and many other natural and apparently -inevitable things, because they are instinctive and scientific, and -because Nature knows her business. We have done and shall continue -to do them involuntarily and automatically, because they relieve -pain and nerve tension, because they produce a form of analgesia, or -pain-deadening, similar to that which follows the injection of water or -some anesthetic solution into a sensory nerve. If you stop and think -for a moment many examples of this inhibition--as it is called--will -recur. - -One of the most interesting, from our standpoint, was that of a young -school teacher, subject to cataleptic fits, who, when she felt one -of her fits coming on, stepped on her right toes with all the weight -she could throw on the left foot, at the same time grasping the right -wrist firmly. Often those near--if notified in time--would produce the -pressures for her. In this way the young woman managed to break up or -prevent all except severe and sudden attacks. - -It was subsequently found that this patient had a chronic irritation -in the right ovary, and also a strained condition of the muscles of -accommodation in the right eye. When these conditions were cleared up -by proper remedial measures and correction, the cataleptic attacks -ceased. - -The fact of relief having followed in many instances her “inhibiting” -the right-sided zones indicated the possible source of trouble. And -by painstakingly examining the organs in these zones the cause of her -condition was located and finally overcome. - -So, as a means of diagnosis zone therapy has an immense value. Its -curative effects, however, are most valuable and significant. Many -of the gravest nerve conditions--conditions which failed to respond -to the most skilled medical treatment obtainable anywhere--have been -completely and permanently cured by the application of the proper -pressures--properly made. - -I recall a very grave case of neurosis--a writer’s cramp--accompanying -a neurasthenic condition. This lady--unusually alert and -intelligent--was a physical and nervous wreck. Sleepless, harassed by -“nerves” in their most aggravated form, she was unable to hold a pen, -or to write more than a few minutes at a time, until, on account of -the pain and twitching of the arm, wrist, and fingers, she was forced -to desist. She could no more have picked up and threaded a needle--let -alone have sewed with it--than she could have operated an aeroplane. -She was also nearly deaf from a middle ear trouble. - -Several months’ treatment, using the aluminum comb across the front and -back of the hands and on the finger tips, and daily employment of the -tongue depressor for four or five minutes, brought about a complete -change in the patient’s condition. - -It relaxed the terrible nervous tension--which was particularly marked -along the course of the spine--enabling her to sleep at night, and -awake thoroly rested and refreshed in the morning. The writer’s cramp -was also completely cleared up. A number of other conditions were also -corrected, and the hearing was improved quite 50%. - -This lady has since resumed her occupation as a private secretary--a -position she was forced by ill health to relinquish more than two -years ago--and now writes for hours at a stretch, without any return of -the cramp in the hand and arm. - -And, most convincing of all, she can now not only pick up, thread, and -hold a needle--something she had not been able to do for years--but -she can sew steadily for two or three hours, and feel no disagreeable -effects from this feminine debauch. - -A peculiarly satisfactory characteristic in all these cases is that -the improvement is even more apparent the “morning after” than it is -immediately after the treatment. - -Another case of neuritis in the arm and shoulder (brachial neuritis) -for more than six years had been unable to raise his arm higher than -the shoulder. For the two months previous to treatment he had been -obliged to carry it in a sling. The slightest movement of the arm -brought about a paroxysm of agonizing pain. - -A number of hollowed-out spring clothespins were clamped on the fingers -of the affected arm (see Fig. 13), and left there for twelve minutes. -At the expiration of this time the clamps were removed. - -The patient gingerly took his arm from its support, and after a minute -or two spent in experimenting with it, moved it freely up behind his -head and swung it behind his back in a sweeping motion. - -It was subsequently found that this man also had an osteopathic lesion, -which was reduced by Dr. Reid Kellogg, and after a few weeks’ “home -treatment”--consisting of five minute applications of moderately tight -rubber bands around the ends of the fingers--he reported himself as -well--and has remained so for more than ten months. - -For sciatic neuritis it is found that deep pressures with the teeth of -an aluminum or steel comb made upon the toes are much more effective -than when made upon the fingers. When pain is most severe on the back -of the leg pressures should be made upon the ball (sole) of the foot. -(See Fig. 18.) When the front of the leg pains also, the top of the -foot should also be pressed. - -While we are on the subject of sciatica, I might emphasize the -importance of a careful examination of the condition of the wisdom -teeth. For very frequently we have found this to be the origin of the -sciatic nerve trouble. - -Another interesting case, successfully treated with clothespins, was -that of a young man suffering from hand tremors, insomnia, and nervous -exhaustion. - -He had his finger tips clamped daily for a week. Then three times -more, at intervals of three days. After the eighth treatment he had -no further trouble with tremor, slept like a baby, and was apparently -relieved of all nervous symptoms. - -[Illustration: FIG. 18.--Showing a method of treating rheumatism or -sciatica by treating all five zones on the back of the leg and body.] - -We have found it helpful, if the patient has a good set of teeth, to -have him clinch the teeth, and also the hands, for several minutes at a -time, three or four times daily. This produces an exaggerated degree of -relaxation, which is most helpful in overcoming nervous conditions. - -Most of our patients are also instructed to “yawn prodigiously,” and -stretch. This stimulates a healthy action of the sympathetic nerves -in all the zones, and cannot fail but be most beneficial. Sometimes -the insomnia of neurasthenia may be effectively overcome by tightly -clasping the hands--interlocking the fingers as shown in Fig. 19, or -pressing the finger tips firmly together, and holding this position for -ten or fifteen minutes--unless sleep should come before this and relax -the clasp. - -Also, the clinching or wriggling of the toes is of benefit to a -neurasthenic. In fact, I am convinced that the method of relieving -fatigue in marching troops, discovered by Drs. DeFleury and Jacques--of -the French army, is largely an application of the principles of zone -therapy. - -The French surgeon’s idea is temporarily to expel the blood from the -legs by raising them. The soldiers remove their shoes and lie prone on -the ground, close to a tree or wall, with heads slightly elevated. They -then raise their legs against the wall, stretching upwards as far as -limb limitations permit. - -[Illustration: FIG. 19.--Patient seventy-two years of age with -carcinoma of left side of tongue, jaw, and pharynx. Two days before -this picture was taken the patient was unable to open his mouth. -The folded hands and open mouth indicate not only relaxation of the -jaws, but the method in which it was brought about. Dr. J. W. Hogan -painlessly extracted eighteen teeth for this patient under pressure -anesthesia.] - -[Illustration: FIG. 20.--Patient with right hand in this picture is -indicating with index and middle finger the location of his pain, and -how he is overcoming it thru pressure on the arm of the chair with the -tips of the thumb and fingers of the left hand. We seldom are obliged -to resort to drugs for pain, even in malignancy.] - -In this attitude the toes and ankles are worked or “wriggled” briskly. -Then the knees are flexed and extended a half dozen times or more. A -body of men, apparently in the last stages of exhaustion, recuperate -their energies with from five to fifteen minutes’ exercise of this kind. - -It can readily be seen how, by these exercises, all the zones in the -body would be stimulated to a normal condition. And the fact that the -exercises practiced are successful on a wholesale scale proves the -principle sound. - -One of the most important things Americans have to learn is how to -relax. Anything that will teach them to do this should prove a boon. - -Therefore I feel certain that, before many years, the principles and -practices of zone therapy will be as familiar and universally applied -as are now the principles of domestic hygiene or the practice of -sterilizing baby bottles. And then zone therapy will add to the depth -and breadth, as well as to the length of human life. - - - - -CHAPTER IX. - -CURING LUMBAGO WITH A COMB. - - -There is a solid and substantial satisfaction in having lumbago. For we -know, without being told, that we have it, and we don’t have to work -our imagination overtime providing it with symptoms. - -Also, lumbago offers less encouragement to mental or psychological -healing than most anything ordinary we could gather up--except a broken -leg, a crop of boils, or an abscessed tooth. And the same thing applies -to its sisters-in-laws, rheumatism and sciatica. - -Therefore, anything that cures lumbago, rheumatism, sciatica, or -similar afflictions, must be able to “deliver the goods.” - -On this basis zone therapy must be considered one of our most valuable -methods for treating these obstinate conditions. Naturally it is not -always successful. Neither are the salicylates, hot mud baths, porous -plasters, nor having teeth pulled. And this is no more an apology for -zone therapy than it is for medicine. - -Lumbago, as a rule, responds very quickly and kindly to zone therapy. -Cases which come to the office “all doubled up” are straightened -out--frequently in one treatment--and wend their homeward way rejoicing. - -The weapon which has given us best results in attacking lumbago and -kindred affections is a common, dull-pointed aluminum comb, such as may -be procured in most bird stores for dog-combing purposes. The teeth of -this are pressed firmly on the palms of the hands and on the palmar -surface of the thumb, first, second and third fingers. In order to get -the best results the pressures should be continued for from ten to -twenty minutes. Occasionally it may be necessary to work also on the -“web” between the thumb and first finger, and also between the first -and second finger. - -Some zone therapy enthusiasts prefer to begin operations on the tips of -the thumb, first, second and third fingers--gradually working up the -palms of the hands and spending five minutes--for good measure--on the -wrists. - -Remember always that the palmar surfaces of the hands and fingers are -to be attacked for pains anywhere on the back, and the top or (back) -surfaces of the hands and fingers for any trouble on the front of the -body, arms or legs. This may seem rather confusing at first, but a -little thought will make clear why, what are commonly known as the back -of the hands are really the front or top, and correspond with the front -or top of the feet. The palms of the hands correspond with the soles of -the feet. - -It is also interesting to note that frequently there are found areas -which are extra sensitive to the pressures of the comb. - -These areas correspond to the most painful zones in other sections of -the body. For instance, if firm pressure on palmar surfaces of right -hand elicits more pain through the third zone in the hand, if the -patient has already complained of pain in his back, such pain will -usually be found in the third zone, and this holds good where pain is -concerned throughout the body. - -If these sensitive areas are found, by commencing gently and gradually -increasing the force of the pressure, toleration can be established. In -developing this toleration, the lumbago is usually relieved. - -Some perfectly amazing results have been reported from the comb method -of treatment, particularly in lumbago. One case, a minister who, for -weeks, had been unable even to turn in bed without assistance, was, -after a twenty-minute treatment, able to arise and walk unaided. He was -entirely relieved of pain and discomfort within a few hours, and the -next day was “up and around.” Relief almost always follows the first -treatment, apparently irrespective as to the cause of the lumbago. I -recall a recent case which had persisted for more than three months. -This gentleman had taken practically every form of treatment that -could be recommended by the most able specialists, had even been to -Hot Springs, without any except transient benefit. He was bent almost -double, and for many weeks had not been able to stand erect. This -patient was given two aluminum combs and told to squeeze them for ten -or fifteen minutes, while waiting in the ante-room. After being brought -into the office, his hands were thoroly “combed” by pressure, from -finger tip to wrist. - -He straightened out completely after this first treatment, and -expressed himself as entirely relieved from pain. He received a similar -treatment the following day--after which he went his way rejoicing. - -These results are practically uniform. I know of many scores of -patients thus cured with a comb. - -Sometimes equally good results follow from fastening hollowed-out -spring clothespins on the tips of the fingers (Fig. 13), corresponding -to the zones in which the lumbago holds forth. Or even from binding -heavy bands around these fingers (Fig. 5)--leaving these in position -five or ten minutes at a time--unless the finger becomes badly -discolored sooner, in which case the pressure must be temporarily -removed. - -One zone therapy enthusiast, who claims that “Treat It By Zone Therapy” -should be hung in every doctor’s office, while on a pilgrimage to a -Shriners’ Convention, noticed that the conductor of the train walked -“all doubled up” and seemed to be suffering great pain. It developed -that the railroad man had a “misery in his back,” had given up work, -and had been in a sanitarium for three weeks--without obtaining much -relief--and also that for the three days prior to his resuming work, he -had not been able to “straighten up,” nor make any sudden move, without -suffering excruciatingly. - -He was invited to come into the smoking compartment for a few minutes, -where the doctor put rubber bands on the thumb and forefinger of each -of the trainman’s hands, and at the same time made firm pressure with -his thumb-nails on these ligatured fingers. - -The conductor was not informed of the purpose of this procedure, so his -imagination had nothing to work on. - -After holding his fingers in this manner for about ten minutes the -whistle blew, and the conductor had suddenly to leave his chair. He -straightened up and went out “on the run.” - -When he came back he laughed and said: “This is the first time in six -weeks I’ve gotten up or moved without pain. What in thunder have those -little rubber bands to do with lumbago, anyway?” - -The doctor saw this man before leaving the train two hours afterwards, -and the trainman volunteered the information that “so far as the -lumbago is concerned I have no more feeling than a fish.” And these -results can be duplicated by any one who will study the zone charts -(Figures 1 and 2), and apply the simple technic outlined. - -Naturally, in sciatica, and in articular or joint rheumatism, the -results have not been so uniformly favorable. For sciatica may be due -to hip joint dislocation. Indeed, one of our most famous bone surgeons -claims that all cases of sciatica result from a twist, or subluxation -of the hip joint which certainly is not true of those cases cured with -a comb, or by electricity, or by some medical measure. - -In treating sciatica particular attention must be given the “hip area” -of the hand on the same side as the sciatica. This means that the -palmar surface of the ring and little finger and the palm of the hand -on that side, as well as the “edge” of the palm, running up over the -top of the hand must be thoroughly “combed.” - -But the best and most rapid relief for sciatica is usually secured by -“attacking” the soles of the feet--using the comb in the same manner -and for the same areas as described for the hands. In other words, by -manipulating the zones in the feet corresponding to the zones in the -hands. - -Dr. George Starr White, of Los Angeles, California, has invented a -mechanical device for this purpose, consisting of a piece of hard wood -about five inches in length, cut with deep screw-like threads (see -Figures 16 and 18). A heavy, smooth rope is attached to each end of -this implement of battle, and the patient uses it with a long, strong -pull for five or ten minutes at a time--repeating the maneuver several -times daily. Possibly any rough-surfaced, home-made device might give -equally good results. - -In acute articular rheumatism, where there are no gross pathological -changes or stiffening in the joints, splendid results have followed the -use of combs. It should be remembered that the hip area corresponds -with the shoulder on the same side, the knee with the elbow, and the -ankle with the wrist, etc., and pain is often overcome more quickly by -attacking corresponding parts with pressure or stimulation. - -One old lady who suffered terribly in the joints of both hands, and who -had not been able to sleep for weeks without an opiate, experienced -complete relief after a half dozen treatments with the comb over the -tips of her fingers and thumb (Fig. 12). And she was able to sleep -soundly thereafter without the use of her usual hypnotic. - -A very interesting case of gonorrheal arthritis was reported recently. -This man’s right knee joint was so painful that he could not bear to -have it touched. To bend the right leg at the knee was out of the -question. - -Two minutes’ pressure on the top and bottom, as well as on the tip of -the big toe, completely relieved the pain, and upon testing the joint -the soreness seemed to have vanished. The doctor then began carefully -bending the knee, and to his surprise, and to the amazement of the -patient--who hadn’t the slightest idea what was being attempted--the -knee could be flexed (bent) perfectly, without any pain whatever. - -As this doctor makes a specialty of treating painful joints by means of -heat, light, mud baths, and electricity, and has had a great deal of -experience in this work, we were much gratified to hear him say that -of all the cases he had ever treated he never had anything seem so -miraculous as this. He further stated that he had tried all his methods -of treatment to alleviate this man’s pain and to be able to flex the -knee, but without avail; yet zone therapy, applied at the proper zone, -brought about almost immediate results. - -As demonstrating a peculiar phase of zone therapy, and showing how -great aches from little corns may grow, here is a very interesting and -instructive case. A patient, suffering from rheumatism in the left -shoulder and arm, had, for more than three weeks, been unable to sleep -on account of the pain. He had a small callous growth on the tip of his -left thumb, corresponding to the zone in which the pain was located. -This was removed, and pressures were made with a comb on the place -where the finger corn had formerly held forth. Within four days he was -completely cured. - -And this reminds me that a corn doctor is a valuable aid in pressure -therapy work. For time and again I have seen pains as far away as -a headache relieved by clearing up the zone occupied and irritated -by a large pugnacious corn, which was the actual cause of the -headache--foolish-sounding as it may seem. - -A little boy with an aggravated case of “wry neck” had, for months, -slept upon sand bags to give him neck support. I cauterized the necks -of his teeth (always look to the condition of the teeth in wry neck) -with a fine platinum point cautery (which is merely a direct way of -stimulating all the zones), and in a few days this youngster was up and -running around as well as ever. - -Other cases of wry neck have been quite as readily cleared up by -combing the appropriate fingers on the palm of the hand of the side -involved or by pressing with a cotton-tipped probe on the proper zones -on the posterior wall of the throat, or on the under surface of the -tongue and on the floor of the mouth under the tongue. - -Most medical men, without stopping longer than two seconds to think -about it, will affirm that all these things are ridiculous and absurd. - -This, you remember, was what contemporary scientists told Galen and -Harvey, and also what the astronomers told Galileo. - -We spoke in a similar strain of radio activity, the fourth dimension, -wireless telegraphy, and aerial navigation. - -Many erudite members of the medical profession claim that zone therapy -and zone analgesia might be interesting if found in Gulliver’s Travels -or Munchausen’s Romances, but that emphatically they have no place in -medical literature. For every one knows that an egg cannot be made to -stand on end. - -Yet we are standing this medical egg on end every day. - -And there is no reason in the world why any intelligent man or woman, -let alone any intelligent doctor, cannot do likewise, and put these -simple and helpful methods into practical application. For it doesn’t -even require faith. - - - - -CHAPTER X. - -SCRATCHING THE HAND FOR SICK STOMACH. - - -Many of us know that if we are threatened with sneezing and we press -the upper lip tightly against the teeth with the fingers, that we can -usually stop the sneeze. Also, that if we drop a cold piece of metal -down the back, or press a piece of ice against the back of the neck, it -will frequently check nosebleed. - -But not many of us know that the reason these things are thus is -because, by these actions, we are stimulating normal function in the -first zone. - -Were we to press our cheek over the wisdom tooth--which is in the -fourth zone--or, rub the ice on our third zone ear, the sneeze and the -nose bleed would pursue uninterruptedly the even tenor of their ways. - -If you never had heard of these things, you would probably say “pish,” -and look around with some trepidation for your informant’s keeper. Yet, -in all earnestness and sincerity, I would, if you are one of those -whose stomach is easily upset, urge that the next time you board a -train or boat you arm yourself with a wire hair brush and a metal comb. - -When the first faint qualms, premonitory of an eruption or some other -seismic disturbance in your interior are felt, get busy with the comb -and brush--not on your head--but on your hands. - -For sickness of the stomach is quite generally relieved by steady -pressure made over the first and second zone on the backs of the hands -with the teeth of a metal comb. The comb should be pressed firmly -over the areas running from the thumb and first finger of both hands, -including the web between the thumb and first finger--which seems to -have a very intimate connection with the stomach. If there is no comb -handy, the finger nails will do good substitute work, but the metal is -best, as it seems to stimulate an electrical contact that helps the -“impulse.” - -This procedure is to be used only where the stomach is irritated -and threatens convulsive contractures, or where there is pain, or -distention from gas. Relief of these conditions may generally be -expected in from five to ten minutes. - -[Illustration: FIG. 21.--When I first saw this patient (January 9, -1913), the enlargement in the neck, pronounced cancer, and inoperable, -by some of our best men in New England, was stony hard and exceedingly -painful to the touch. She had not been able to lie down for nine -months, and had not taken any solid food for three months; could open -the mouth only slightly, and with great difficulty. We induced speedy -relaxation of the neck (it was absolutely relaxed in four treatments) -through pressure with a dry cotton-wound applicator and also with -a pencil moistened with trichloracetic acid in varied strengths -from twenty-five per cent to a saturated solution, throughout the -appropriate zones in the mouth, nose and epipharynx. This patient -responds quickly to pressure, and accurately traces sensations of glow -or numbness from the mouth to the extremities and vice versa. These -sensations are almost immediately followed by lines of anesthesia. -Note the neck of this patient (see Fig. 22) fourteen months later. -Patient through pressure on fingers of zones involved keeps side of -neck constantly anesthetized, and therefore free from irritation, with -constant absorption of growth.] - -If, however, the stomach is “dead”--the doctors call it “atonic”--when -it lies inert and unambitious after a heavy meal--or even a small -meal that is heavy for that stomach at that particular time--the best -results are found in gentle stroking or scratching with a wire hair -brush, or with the teeth of the comb. If these are not available -scratch with the finger nails, but, as with the pressures, the most -favorable results follow the use of metal. - -[Illustration: FIG. 22.--Photograph of patient in Fig. 21 seventeen -months after her first treatment. After three years improvement still -continues.] - -Remember that scratching stimulates, while deep pressure with the teeth -of the comb, finger nails or wires of the hair brush relaxes. - -Also the next time the baby is restless and inclined to double up and -yell murder, instead of doing a slippered constitutional up and down -the room with him, scratch the backs of his hands. If he’s had too -much to eat this may quiet him. If, however, his little “tummy” is -“working,” try some pressures on his hands or feet, and see how soon -the “tummy” will knock off work. - -And, for the same sufficient reasons, try the same thing on yourself -and the family, instead of “banging” the stomach over the head with a -dose of dope. - -The morning sickness of pregnancy yields quite uniformly to deep -pressures on the backs of the hands, and it is much safer to try and -control this nausea from the hands than it would be to resort to the -severe pressures on the tongue. For these latter, if too drastic, might -produce a miscarriage. - -Also, while it isn’t exactly zone therapy, it might be interesting -here to note that eating salted popcorn has a tendency to help correct -the nausea of pregnancy, car sickness, and indigestion. Many patients -of mine keep a bowl of it on a chair right alongside their beds, and -commence to eat it so soon as they awake in the morning. A handful -of popcorn, thoroughly chewed, seems to help pacify the otherwise -rebellious stomach. - -Zone therapy pressures are valuable not only in nausea and vomiting, -but also in indigestion, gastric catarrh and all forms of stomach -disorders. It has even been successfully employed in gastric ulcer, -with dangerous hemorrhages and the other distressing symptoms of this -painful malady. Dr. Reid Kellogg has cured three of these cases, one -in ten treatments, the others in two or three months. Two of these -patients had had an acute condition for two months--no food whatsoever -passing through the pylorus (the exit of the stomach). They had been, -of course, fed by the rectum. - -Dr. Kellogg used the probe (Fig. 9), low down on the posterior (back) -wall of the pharynx, and used pressures over the thumb, first and -second fingers of both hands with the aluminum comb. - -In less than a dozen treatments these patients were able to retain -food taken into the stomach, and practically conduct the entire -subsequent course of their own cure. - -To disabuse the minds of any who may evolve the idea that zone therapy -is of value only in conditions that “don’t matter anyhow,” I want to -emphasize that these cases were most grave, and that they had received -skilled medical attention for many weeks--without apparent benefit. - -It has been current knowledge--even before those halcyon days when the -banqueter retired to have his throat tickled by a dutiful slave--that -by touching definite areas in the throat and at the base of the -tongue--vomiting could be induced. - -And now we have discovered how to put the reverse English on the -tickle, and keep it down when it wants to come up. Which discovery -should also help increase the sum total of the world’s health and -happiness. - - - - -CHAPTER XI. - -HAY FEVER, ASTHMA AND TONSILITIS. - - -If the United States Hay Fever Association, and all individuals who -suffer from hay fever, will read carefully, and then apply this -chapter--as directed--the ravages of these catarrhal cataclysms, I feel -sure, will be beautifully lessened. - -For zone therapy has an especial and peculiar message for -hay-feverites. It has mitigated, if not entirely relieved, the red-eyed -misery of hundreds of them. And none--except those who have been -victims--can know what a real relief this is. - -Nobody knows for certain what causes hay-fever, and, judging from -the textbooks, they know even less regarding any definite method of -relieving it. - -It is possible that repeated “colds”--generally from dust -infection--result in a chronic irritation of the mucous membrane, -followed by a thickening (or hypertrophy) of the tissues. - -This thickened tissue dams the circulation of blood in the membranes, -and presses upon the delicate nerves of the nose, thereby irritating -them, which irritation proves to be the last straw. So the nerves of -the nose throw up both hands with a despairing moan. - -An acute inflammatory irritation is established, setting up a vicious -circle. For the pressure causes nerve irritation, and the nerves -retaliate by still further disturbing the circulation, thereby causing -more pressure. - -Then, if really it is pollen that causes the physiological -conflagration we call hay fever, the mucous membrane is so susceptible -that it will readily respond to the action of the pollen. Which is -probably also true of those cases that develop similar conditions from -the odor of roses, horses or cats. - -It is significant, however, that of all the hundreds of hay-fever -patients that have ever come under my care not one had an absolutely -normal nose. Invariably there were bony spurs, protruding turbinate -bones, cartilages twisted out of proper alignment, an inflamed and -thickened mucous membrane lining, or some other pathological condition, -one usually requiring surgical interference. - -So if you have, or expect to have, hay fever or any other abnormal -condition of the nasal mucous membranes, see a specialist and have -your nose placed in as near a perfect condition as surgical skill and -your physical shortcomings will permit, not forgetting also a thorough -stretching of the soft palate. This the surgeon will accomplish by -means of a finger inserted in the throat and a hooked instrument in the -passage back of the nose. By enlarging the contracted parts of this -passage normal drainage and circulation in these tissues is established. - -The best results are obtained by operating during the height of an -attack. If sometimes even a needle be thrust through the congested -mucous membrane, so that the blood flows freely, the attack can be -broken up, and the condition frequently eradicated for that season. - -Then use any combination of the following procedures, which experience -may prove helpful, remembering that here no fixed rule can be laid -down, and that what “works” magically in one case might have but little -effect in another. - -First, make steady firm pressures on various points in the roof of the -mouth with the thumb. Be careful to “cover” the region directly on a -line with the nose. These pressures should be maintained for from four -to eight minutes at a time, and repeated a half dozen or more times -daily. Those experienced in zone therapy claim that the pressures have -an immediate and powerful effect upon abnormal conditions in this zone. - -At the same time the upper lip should be firmly forced against the -teeth with the first finger. This usually has a most discouraging -effect upon sneezing. - -Pressures with a cotton-tipped probe on the back wall of the pharynx -(the inside junction of the nose and mouth), as well as upon the mucous -membranes of the nose, give, in the hands of physicians, the quickest -results. The cotton-tipped probe may be dipped in trichloracetic acid, -or some pungent agent, which will lend “punch” to the contact impulse. - -A curious feature in connection with this probe therapy is that if the -patient, by coughing, resents the presence of the instruments, the -effect seems to be dissipated. In other words, the transmission of the -nerve impulse is partly inhibited. It is fair to say, however, that -patients become rapidly accustomed to what at first frequently caused -irritation. - -The use of a tongue depressor, covering the center of the tongue fairly -well “forward,” has also been found most helpful, if pressed down and -held firmly several times a day for three minutes or more at a time. In -fact, it is expedient to use the tongue depressor in almost all nose, -throat and stomach troubles--or, in fact, any condition occurring in -the “front” of the body. - -The wearing of moderately tight rubber bands upon the thumb, first -and second fingers for ten or fifteen minutes (or less, if the finger -tips become purple) repeated several times daily, seems also to help -materially. Indeed, some physicians report that they get their very -best results by having their patients wear the bands as continuously as -possible, removing them only as required to prevent blood stasis, and -then replacing them again. - -Pressures exerted with the finger and thumb over the joints of the -thumb, first and second fingers or toes have given excellent results. -Three or four-minute pressures with an aluminum comb on all surfaces -of the thumb and first finger--repeated several times daily--have also -given satisfactory relief in hay fever. - -Always the breath should be taken through the nostrils. If the mouth -persists in opening at night, strap it shut with isinglass plaster cut -in thin strips. - -The treatment of asthma and other affections of the respiratory -passages is very similar to that of hay fever, excepting that, instead -of pressing the tongue, more generally the floor of the mouth is -manipulated for this purpose--as the impulse is thus more “direct.” - -Some of the results in asthma have been little short of miraculous. One -patient suffering with bronchial asthma had been unable to lie down for -three years, what little sleep she secured being taken propped in a -chair. Her sole relief consisted in the hypodermic injection of fifteen -drops of adrenalin solution, practically every morning and night. - -I made pressure on the pharyngeal wall, at a point “low down,” where -the “metallic sensation” was reflected into the bronchial region. Also -I used the probe on the floor of the mouth, directly beneath the root -of the tongue. - -Within five minutes this lady--for the first time in three years--was -relieved of all pain, tightness, hoarseness, and shortness of breath. -In two months of this treatment she gained fifteen pounds, and now -sleeps through the night. Also, she has been enabled completely to -discontinue her use of adrenalin. - -Another bronchial asthmatic suffered so severely that he had made all -arrangements, even to packing his trunks, to retire from business -and seek health on the Riviera or in Egypt. His “wheezing” was so -pronounced that he could be heard clear across a twenty-foot room. -This gentleman was advised by Dr. D. F. Sullivan, senior surgeon of -St. Francis Hospital, to see me before leaving the country. - -I pressed on the floor of the patient’s mouth, under the root of the -tongue, with a cotton-tipped probe, and made strong pressure on the -first and third zones of his tongue with a tongue depressor. In three -or four treatments this man was entirely well, and informed us that he -had indefinitely postponed his trip abroad, and “was going back to work -again.” - -Zone therapists have found in throat and chest cases that painting the -tongue with iodine on the upper and lower surfaces for about one-third -way back is most helpful. - -But one of the best of all methods by which the patient may help -himself consists in biting the tongue as hard as comfortably can be -borne, holding that member between the teeth for several minutes at a -time, three or four times daily. - -Also, it is well carefully to examine the condition of the teeth, -throat and pharynx in asthmatic cases, as frequently the asthma does -not clear up until some defect in these organs is remedied. - -A twelve-year-old girl of my acquaintance, a physician’s daughter, -has developed considerable technic in zone therapy. Only recently -she relieved the pain of a bad case of mumps by fastening spring -clothespins to the first, second and third fingers of both her hands, -leaving them on until the finger tips became quite purple. - -The little lady proudly demonstrated her control over the condition by -taking a mouthful of vinegar as a gargle. This, as every doctor knows, -is quite a crucial test. - -In tonsilitis good results almost invariably follow pressure over the -inferior dental nerve, at a point where it enters the jaw bone. It -requires considerable skill to find this foramen (as it is called), so -this advice is really for doctors only. - -Pressure may also be made with the finger on a probe back of the -anterior pillars (membranes situated in front of the tonsil). - -Yet much may be accomplished merely by squeezing the joints of the -second, third and fourth fingers, and using a tongue depressor on the -extreme sides of the tongue. - -And this reminds me that a certain minister of my acquaintance has been -teaching his Boy Scouts zone therapy methods, with especial reference -to curing themselves of coughs and other common ailments. The boys -also find it valuable in their “First Aid to the Injured” work. I -can readily understand that the analgesic effects of zone pressure -should be effective in the camp, as well as in the home, or in the -dead-of-night emergency. - -Zone therapy opens up a tremendous field. So the more experimenters we -have the sooner every one will know just how tremendous and useful and -marvelous it is. - - - - -CHAPTER XII. - -CURING A SICK VOICE. - - -We all remember the gentleman in one of Moliere’s plays who was -astounded to learn that he had been talking prose all his life. This -verdant reminiscence has an almost universal application. - -For instance, Umberto Sorrentino, the gifted Italian tenor, has, for -a number of years, relieved the “tight,” inflexible throat, which is -the bane of vocalists and speakers, by grasping his tongue firmly in -a handkerchief, pulling it as hard as could be comfortably borne, -and wriggling it slowly from side to side. This, he says, eases up -throat tension, and frees the voice. It also has a tendency to abort a -beginning cold. - -He was led to adopt this practice from observing the beneficial effects -of massage of the throat in stimulating and otherwise improving the -circulation and releasing the muscles from the bound condition, which -invariably (in his case) foreruns a cold. He reasoned that if external -massage was beneficial, internal massage should be even more so; hence, -the “wriggle.” - -Also, Miss Mabel Garrison, one of the new lyric sopranos of the -Metropolitan Opera House, has won the appreciation and gratitude of -various members of the company, by curing stiff, inelastic sore throats -through pressures made upon the vocalists’ tongues. - -There is a hint in these significant facts that no singer, lawyer, -actor, clergyman, mother of a family, or business man can afford to -ignore. For almost everyone suffers occasionally from defects somewhere -in the delicate mechanism that shapes air currents into beautiful -sounds, and molds breath into speech. - -Although they probably are not aware of this, both Signor Sorrentino -and Miss Garrison are employing zone therapy in relieving these vocal -ills. For they are exerting pressures on the first and second zones, -the region which governs the function of the vocal chords, the pharynx, -larynx, and the respiratory passages. - -And while their results have been very remarkable, and eminently -satisfactory to themselves and their fellow artists, they would be even -more striking were the pressures made more “direct.” - -[Illustration: SIGNOR UMBERTO SORRENTINO, - -the noted tenor, who relieves “tight” throat by making strong traction -on the tongue. By pressure on the anterior third of the tongue, and -by stimulating the outside lateral aspects of the fore fingers (which -distinctly govern the vocal cords) Sorrentino has relieved himself and -many of his friends of what promised to be serious throat conditions.] - -In other words, if, instead of squeezing and making strong traction -on the tongue, or of using a depressor on this member, they were to -do these things and, in addition, apply firm pressure on the floor of -the mouth, beneath the tongue, with a cotton-tipped metal probe (see -Fig. 6), dipped in spirits of camphor or alcohol (to increase the -“impulse”), their results would be far more certain and satisfactory. - -In all cases of hoarseness, huskiness, or in loss of voice due to -irritation or strain--as in clergyman’s sore throat--these practices -almost invariably give relief. I remember a case of a soprano whose -upper register was completely lost through long-continued strain. The -floor of her mouth--directly under the tongue, and up to the roots of -the lower incisor teeth, was “prodded” intermittently for a period of -fifteen minutes, with the metal probe. The cotton on the tip of the -probe was dipped in some pungent agent, for the purpose, as before -stated, of increasing the nerve “response.” - -Marked improvement followed the first treatment. She was, however, -cautioned not to attempt to use the voice, except for a moment or two -after treatments--to observe the effect. - -The singer also carried out “home treatments,” consisting in -five-minute firm applications of a tongue depressor (see Fig. 17) on -the center of the tongue. This was done every four hours. In addition, -she squeezed the sides of her thumbs. This action, especially if -accompanied by digging the finger nails into the inner side of the -thumb--which area is distinctly in the vocal chord zone--has a -specific effect upon the vocal chords. Within three days this lady had -completely recovered, and was able to return to her company. - -Zone therapy has, in innumerable instances, restored speaking voices -that were as lost as the Lost Hope. Indeed, it is of common occurrence -to have a clergyman, a lawyer, or a business man who has become aphonic -(voiceless) from long dictation, or some other vocal strain, come to -the specialist in zone therapy, unable to speak above a whisper, and -within a half hour go his way rejoicing--practically as “good as new”. - -This, by application of the probe on the floor of the mouth, pressures -on the tongue, and sometimes pressures on the thumb and fingers, any -and all of which procedures can be successfully used by any intelligent -man or woman in the relief of their own troubles, or in curing these -troubles in their family. - -Respecting the finger pressures, it must be borne in mind that it is -necessary to work on the particular zone involved. For instance, it -would be useless to make pressures over the thumb joints if the cause -of the throat trouble should happen to be a congested tonsil. The -third, fourth and fifth fingers would have to be invoked for relief in -this zone. - -It is, however, perfectly remarkable what these finger pressures alone -will accomplish. One of the earlier experimental cases was a patient -who had been speaking on and off all day at a Sunday School Convention -held in a grove. This grove must have been an ideal spot for a nice -open air meeting. But the leafy bowers, the sylvan glades, and the -bossy dells were not built for acoustic purposes. - -The consequence was that, when the shades of night were falling fast -our hero was “all in”. He couldn’t speak above a whisper. He had such -contraction of the muscles that he couldn’t even open his jaws--let -alone communicate intelligent information through them. - -This was his condition when he presented himself the following noon -petitioning relief. He had had nothing to eat since late lunch the day -before, although, whether he knew it or not, he had had enough then to -last him a week. - -Of course, as he could not open his mouth it was not possible to treat -him by pressures on the floor of the mouth, and on the tongue. So he -was provided with an aluminum comb, and shown how to make pressures on -the back of his hand, extending up from the thumb to the wrist, and -over to the fourth finger, and left to his own devices for twenty-five -minutes. - -At the expiration of this time he had relaxed the tension of his -jaw muscles and relieved the irritation in his throat to such an -extent that he went out and had a comfortable lunch. Returning to the -specialist’s office, pressures were made with a padded probe (see -Fig. 9) on the wall of the pharynx--the probe being introduced through -the nostril. - -Also, he was given instrumentation on the floor of the mouth, -underneath the tongue, and a conscientious treatment with a tongue -depressor. This weapon he took home and used, carrying out also the -combing of the back of the hands. Three days afterwards he sang in the -choir as well as ever. - -Deep massage with the fingers on the muscles of the throat, and a -“plucking” of the voice box are also helpful procedures. Where the -irritation or the inflammation is not extensive it might be well -to include them as routine measures in most throat troubles. Where -there is active congestion they are, of course, not only useless, but -actually harmful. - -A very frequent cause of vocal ills, and a condition most generally -associated with a congested throat, is a “stuffy” nose. Also, it is -quite impossible to get a perfect vocal resonance if the membranes of -the nose are swollen and congested with “cold” or catarrh. - -The tongue and finger pressures do much to relieve these conditions, -but perhaps the surest and quickest method of curing them is to -“pencil” the nose with a probe, using the uncovered steel for this -purpose. And, I may here remark, that the patient’s own saliva is one -of the best and least irritating lubricants for this probe work in the -nose. - -The steel should be left in each nostril several minutes, and gently -moved back and forth from time to time, for the tonic “penciling” or -“ironing” effect. The curative influence of this on chronic nasal -catarrh or other pathological conditions of the nose is sometimes quite -remarkable. - -Also, it might be well here to add that atomizers are useless, except -temporarily--as after exposure to a horde of sneezers or coughers. In -this event, an alkaline antiseptic may be of value. - -But the constant washing away of the natural secretion of the mucous -membrane, or the perpetual coating over of the air passages with a film -of oil--which prevents the natural secretion from being natural--is -distinctly injurious. For it tends to provoke, perpetrate and -perpetuate all forms of catarrh, and none should use them--except under -physician’s instruction--and then for a short time only. Stimulate -normal function with a probe or sound, used at night before retiring, -and in the morning on arising, and cure the condition instead of making -it chronic. - -It wouldn’t be difficult to get affirmative evidence to the fact that -a sick voice is one of the sickest and most disheartening things that -can befall one who must depend upon it for a living. But, with a little -patience, and an intelligent application of the principles of zone -therapy, it is a “cinch”. - - - - -CHAPTER XIII. - -A SPECIFIC FOR WHOOPING AND OTHER COUGHS. - - -For years eminent scientists have been spending much valuable time -and money in seeking a cure for whooping cough. Still the whoop -persists. The distress, the after effects on the bronchial tubes, and -the weakening influence--frequently leading to the later development -of tuberculosis--remains uninfluenced. The disease runs its course, -irrespective of any or all treatments. - -Yet whooping cough is one of the simplest and most easily-cured -diseases with which zone therapy has to contend. An ordinary case of -whooping cough, which has persisted for weeks, can sometimes be cured -in from three to five minutes. Rarely are more than four or five -treatments necessary. Case after case is recalled in which, after the -application of a cotton-tipped probe--held down firmly on the back of -the throat (the post-pharyngeal wall), little patients who had whooped -themselves into a state of nervous and physical exhaustion, never had -another paroxysm of coughing. - -If the savants of the various research institutions throughout -the country are really sincere in attempting to discover a -cure for whooping cough, asthma, goitre, and a score of other -conditions--conditions successfully treated by zone therapy--it will be -easy to put this method to the test. - -If they do not themselves care to make the experiment, I will come to -New York and demonstrate the method on one or one hundred cases, and -show that, in from one to a half dozen treatments with a steel probe, -whooping cough can be effectively and permanently overcome. This may -or may not be worth the attention of these gentlemen. I can do no more -than make the offer, which, I emphasize, is made in perfect good faith -and in the interest of humanity and science. - -The most remarkable feature of a brand-new discovery is very frequently -its hoary-headedness. For this reason, when we come to think about -this matter of the mechanical relief of cough, we are struck with its -antiquity. From time antedating the memory of man, humanity has pressed -its second finger in its pharynx (that space which spreads out from the -back part of the mouth and throat up into the nose) or the larynx (a -continuation of the pharynx), for the purpose of loosening a dry cough -or to facilitate expectoration. - -All grandmothers, ever since there were grandmothers, have put their -fingers in babies’ throats to give them relief in croup. Some of the -wisest of these grandmothers used to press the handle of a spoon on -the back part of the tongue, in order to abort a beginning cold, or -cause a profuse secretion of mucus in conditions associated with a dry, -metallic cough. - -Our old-time cure for hiccoughs has the same reason for its existence. -For, when we grasp the tongue of a hiccougher, and with a long pull, -a strong pull, and a pull all together, haul the offending member to -tongue’s length--and hold it there--we cure the spasmodic contraction -of the diaphragm (the cause of hiccough) by influencing the zone in -which the trouble originates. This is the principle by which we cure -whooping cough, or indeed any cough that originates in any portion -of the respiratory tube. But, we have found in these cases that -spots in the vault or wall of the pharnyx, if pressed firmly with a -cotton-wrapped probe, as large as can be comfortably passed through the -nostrils, gives the quickest and most definite results. - -For the “reflex”--the sensation of pain, tingling, or cold, which -is transmitted along the nerve zones by this contact,--can be -definitely traced by the patient to the exact spot where the irritation -seems to originate. - -By slightly raising the handle of the probe, and thereby altering its -point of contact on the business end, this influence can be directed -with almost mathematical precision to the area we desire to influence. - -When the exact “spot” is pressed--and a little practice will soon -make the finding of this almost automatic--the pressure should be -firmly held for several minutes. The throat may feel slightly “lame” -afterwards--but this soon passes off. If it does not, pressure -brought to bear upon the appropriate thumb or finger will relieve the -“lameness.” - -In an experience with several hundred cases of whooping cough we have -not yet seen a failure from the proper application of zone therapy. -This, I believe, is more than can be truly said of any other form of -treatment. - -A very few treatments only are necessary to relieve even the most -aggravated case of whooping cough--or any cough which originates in the -respiratory passage in that zone. - -In other words, a tubercular cough, which has its cause in a lesion on -the extreme right or left of the lung would not respond to pressures -in the middle zones. Likewise a cough which was reflected from a -congested liver, or from some other organ not in the first and second -zones, would fail to respond to pressures made as here described. Any -intelligent man or woman can apply these pressures--and with almost the -same success as would attend the effort of the most famous specialist. - -It sometimes assists very materially if the tongue, for about a third -way back, is thoroly painted above and below with tincture of iodin. -The mild irritation from the iodin tends to stimulate the normal -function of all those zones interested in keeping up the cough. - -[Illustration: FIG. 23--Anterior quarter of tongue coated with tincture -of iodin--both surfaces.] - -[Illustration: FIG. 24--Four minutes after complete absorption of the -iodin (see Fig. 23) has taken place. The patient is indicating the -sensation of heat or reaction over several zones in the chest where -it is most pronounced. Few patients experience these sensations, but -all patients experience the benefit. This reaction does, as a matter -of fact, extend over the entire body. It is easily demonstrated that -the tongue, when firmly compressed by the teeth, will often produce -relaxation of the entire body, for the mouth is also divided into ten -zones. These illustrations indicate the possibility of the speedy -absorption of toxins from inner surfaces of neglected teeth and gums.] - -If the use of the probe through the nostrils seems too much like a -surgical operation, very good--though not so rapid and effective -results--will follow the application of firm pressures on the front -part of the tongue, and on the floor of the mouth directly under the -tongue. - -Also moderately tight rubber bands should be worn on the thumbs and -first fingers of both hands for five or ten minute intervals, several -times a day. This might be supplemented also with strong pressure with -the finger and thumb over the bridge of the cougher’s nose. - -If there should be a frontal headache associated with the cough--a -very frequent symptom if the cough has persisted for any length of -time--the finger and thumb should be moved up to the very root of the -nose. This shall be pinched gently for several minutes, right at the -place where the nose ends and the eyes begin. - -One of the most remarkable things zone therapy has yet done (although -I am not surprised at anything it may do) was to cure a forty-year-old -cough, originating in a tracheal (or wind pipe) irritation. The patient -received one treatment with a probe (Fig. 9) on the back wall of the -pharynx. - -She experienced relief after the second treatment, and continued to -improve until, at the expiration of three weeks, she was discharged as -cured. Now, after 15 months, there has been no return of the cough. - -Another patient with bronchial cough associated with lagrippe, under -my instruction, relieved herself by pressures made with the finger and -thumb over the bridge of the nose, and by the wearing of rubber bands -around the thumbs and first fingers of both hands. - -This lady reported the following morning that she had enjoyed the -first night’s sleep she had had in more than five nights, and that a -persistent and most annoying headache had also cleared up. - -These results are quite uniform, and can be duplicated by any one who -will try patiently and painstakingly to duplicate them. - -Indeed, so simple is the procedure that I have repeatedly seen -bronchial and other coughs, resulting from irritation or congestion at -some point in the air passages, completely cured, merely by pressure on -the tongue with the handle of a tablespoon or a toothbrush. And many of -these had persisted for a long time. - -I believe the time is not far distant when every one will be his own -cough doctor; when mothers, instead of doping their children with -dangerous opiates or stomach-destroying nostrums will, with a tongue -depressor, or a probe, do successfully in a few hours what now (to -perpetrate an Irish bull) is done inadequately or not at all in many -days. - -Here is the knowledge. There are no patents or restrictions upon it. -Every one is free to use it to the fullest and most helpful possible -extent. - - - - -CHAPTER 14. - -HOW A PHANTOM TUMOR WAS DISSIPATED. - - -Last June the New Hampshire Dental Society held a convention at Weirs, -on Lake Winnepesaukee. One of the residents of the summer colony was -brought before the convention on the evening of June 23d. Her serious -condition baffled the local physicians. It was hoped that among the two -hundred scientific men, gathered there from all parts of the East, some -might be found who could help her. - -She was a woman about thirty-five years old, well nourished and -apparently healthy, apart from a large swelling in the front of the -neck. Manifestly the thyroid and other glands had become enlarged -through some unknown inflammatory cause. She was suffering great pain. -The slightest touch caused agony. Swallowing was impossible. Not even -a drop of water had passed down her throat since the preceding Friday -night. This was Wednesday night. - -A healthy human being can exist from seven to ten days without water. -This woman had been without water for five days, suffering mental and -physical torture. Her physician insisted, as the only means of saving -her life, that an operation be performed at once. The half dozen or -more physicians who had been called in consultation concurred in this. -There was nothing left but to perform an intubation--the insertion of -a tube in the gullet, through which water and food might be passed, -pending some possible measure of relief. - -The heart was racing along at one hundred and fifty beats a minute, and -there were all the peculiar symptoms usually associated with thyroid -disturbances. Inasmuch as the whole trouble had developed in a week, it -was most unlikely that the condition was goitrous. - -As it was probable that the trouble was associated with the thyroid, -a physician present decided to try zone therapy, because it could be -applied instantly, and promised immediate results if successful. - -Calling one of the dentists to make strong pressure over the first -joint of one thumb, the doctor grasped the other thumb. This simple, -apparently foolish, treatment was maintained for three minutes. The -patient began to show signs of relief. The drawn lines on her face -softened. She could bear without shrinking the touch on her neck. - -The doctor sent for a glass of water, and held it to the patient’s -lips. She took a sip of water, which she swallowed with much difficulty -and pain--the first drop in five days. - -“It is the most delicious thing I ever tasted,” she whispered. - -She was able to swallow about a third of a glass upon her first -attempt. The pressures were continued intermittently for about an hour, -and within that time she was able to drink four glasses of water and -a glass of malted milk. A light rubber band was placed over her thumb -joints, as shown in Fig. 5, and she enjoyed her first night’s sleep -since the inflammation had developed. - -The next morning she reported that she was almost entirely relieved. -The swelling was hardly perceptible, and she could bear reasonable -pressure over the glands without discomfort. She had no difficulty -in swallowing. In a few days she was fully recovered, and has had no -return of the trouble. - -With the relief of nerve tension--consciously or unconsciously -exerted--there necessarily follows a relief in either the constricted -or the congested condition of the lymphatic glands or ducts, the -thyroid and other ductless glands, and also of the vasomotor nerves, -which control the flow of blood through the blood vessels. - -This action, no doubt, accounts for the marvelous results which zone -therapy has produced in the treatment of glandular and circulatory -diseases--whether due to nervous, or physical causes. - -In the famous “globus hystericus”--that big lump comes up in the throat -of an hysteric--there is no speedier or more effective treatment than -zone therapy. Merely take the hands of the hysterical individual, -squeeze them as hard as she can bear the pressure, and maintain this -pressure for several minutes. Almost immediate relaxation of all the -zones will follow, and with this relaxation a disappearance of the -great lump in the throat. - -The combs or the wire hair brush may be used, if preferred. Or, if -none of these are available, merely scratch the back of the hands with -the finger nails. It will help materially, of course, if suggestion be -employed, using the voice in a soothing manner. - -But the results are quite as effective--although not as rapid--if the -patient has no idea concerning what is being attempted. - - - - -CHAPTER 15. - -DR. WHITE’S EXPERIENCE. - - -One of the most thoro and able diagnosticians in America, if not in the -world, is George Starr White, M. D., of Los Angeles, Cal., discoverer -of the bio-dynamic method of diagnosis. I reproduce a small portion of -his experiences in zone therapy and zone anesthesia--as detailed in his -Lecture Course. - -“A few years ago, while experimenting on the anesthetic effect of the -Tesla current, I observed that by giving a current that produced a -severe shock to the fingers, I was able to pierce them with needles and -not feel pain. I did not realize why these results were obtained. But -experiments on animals gave me a hint. For one of my horses backed into -a window, and got a large piece of glass into the sacral region (near -the tail). We tried, without success, to put her into a narrow stall -and tie her legs so we could operate, as a large incision had to be -made to extract the foreign body. Finally one of our men suggested that -we tie a slipper-noose, which he called a ‘twitch’, around the horse’s -nose. He made this ‘twitch’ out of a piece of thin rope, put it on the -horse’s nose, and we started to operate. The result was a collision -between the horse’s hind legs and my abdomen. I told the man to put -the ‘twitch’ on again, tie it tightly, and hold it for two or three -minutes. Then, altho I made a deep incision to take out the glass, the -horse did not flinch. - -“I realize now that we used zone anesthesia, as the sacral region and -the nose are in the same zone. At other times we have had occasion to -do minor operations on cows and pigs on my experiment farm, and have -noticed that, by putting a ‘twitch’ on the nose, the animals did not -seem to experience any pain. - -“Also, before anesthesia was so well known, I remember seeing surgeons -do minor operations on individuals who would take no chloroform. Almost -always the patients closed their teeth, or clinched their hands on some -rough substance. Then ‘they could stand anything.’ - -“Later I heard Dr. William H. Fitzgerald explain zone therapy. Then I -realized that we have always used zone therapy, although we did not -know it. - -“After spending a few days with Dr. Fitzgerald, I met at a dinner -party, a lady who had a severe frontal headache. Obtaining her -permission to try a new ‘cure’, I exerted pressure upon the thumb, -first and second fingers, and within five minutes the headache had -disappeared. I had similar success in treating a toothache. - -“I shortly afterwards called on a New York physician who had previously -been one of my pupils, and asked him if he knew anything about zone -therapy. He said he did not, but had read about it in some of the -journals, and thought ‘it must be all imagination.’ I then held his -fingers, pretending I was trying to see how much resistance there -was in his muscles. Within three minutes I laid a button hook on his -eyeball without his flinching. I took a stickpin from his cravat, and -pushed it into his cheek, and put several pins into his face, without -his feeling them. He could not bear the touch of a pin in any other -zone. He called his wife, and she was horrified when she saw him so -‘stuck up.’ I withdrew the pins and sterilized his face. He is now a -staunch believer in zone anesthesia. - -“At several of our lecture courses in Chicago and elsewhere, I had -an opportunity to show these methods, and made some very interesting -observations. We found that light would not contract the pupil of the -eye that had been attacked through the finger zones to the same degree -as the pupil of the eye that had not been so attacked. - -“One of the doctors in a Chicago class, on hearing of zone anesthesia, -told me that about two years previous he was suffering from inguinal -hernia (rupture) and a radical operation was advised. He went to the -hospital, and the anesthetist began to prepare him for the anesthesia. -He told them that he wanted no anesthesia, as he was going to have -the operation done without taking anything. The surgeon was loath -to operate without some kind of general or local anesthetic, but he -told him he wanted nothing, as he thought he could control himself. -The surgeon consented, but had ready chloroform and a hypodermic with -cocaine. The Doctor clinched his teeth and hands with all his might, -and put himself into as powerful a tension as possible for about three -minutes before lying on the table. He then laid down, relaxed, and -said ‘go ahead.’ From the beginning to the end of the operation all he -noticed, he said, was that there was something going on, but he felt -absolutely no pain. I looked at his teeth, and saw that the occluding -(biting) surfaces were very good indeed, which accounts in a great -measure for the efficacy of the zone anesthesia. - -“Dr. Fitzgerald has treated many cases of cancer and tumor, and has -had some extraordinary successes with some of them. He carefully -avoids any reference to the value of zone therapy in these conditions, -but, to my mind, the results achieved warrant mention. I saw two most -interesting cases in his practice. One, a lady, about 55 years of -age, had a growth on the side of her neck, diagnosed as cancer. By -the bio-dynamic method, I confirmed this diagnosis. This growth was -as large as an ordinary sized orange, and very hard and unyielding. -The lady told us that, until she began being treated by means of zone -therapy and zone analgesia, she had not slept for months without some -opiate. For more than two years now she said she had taken no opiates, -and had rested without any pain when zone pressure anesthesia was used. - -“When I saw this lady the size of the growth had diminished from -this treatment, until it would not be recognized except by palpation -(feeling with the fingers). I also saw her photograph, taken before she -began treatment, and the improvement was certainly remarkable. I do not -know whether zone therapy will ever cure this case, but we do know that -it is making life endurable to the unfortunate victim. - -“Several of my pupils have used the Fitzgerald method for operation -on turbinate and other nasal obstructions, as well as upon obstetric -(childbirth) cases, with most gratifying results in all of them. - -“Two or three cases out of ten will not, it seems, respond to zone -therapy. But the majority will. There is no doubt a good reason for the -failures, such as blocking of the ‘zone paths’ in some manner--as by -a tumor, growth, pus condition, or obstruction. Or again, failure may -be due to faulty technic. Better results will no doubt come with more -experience. It only requires that the method be tried out on a huge -scale, and by a large number of competent observers. Then the collated -results will furnish us a basis for accurate application of these most -wonderful and helpful principles.” - - - - -CHAPTER 16. - -ZONE THERAPY--MAINLY FOR DENTISTS. - - -There are four reasons why zone analgesia--as we call the -pain-relieving properties of zone therapy--are not more generally used -by dentists. One is that the dentist doesn’t wish to put himself in the -embarrassing position of suggesting such a foolish-seeming thing to his -pain-racked patient. Another is that the patient herself thinks she’s -conferring a favor upon the dentist by permitting him to spend five or -ten minutes’ valuable time in attempting to alleviate her sufferings, -and make the ordeal of cavity preparation or scaling comparatively -painless. - -Also, to press over the roots of a tooth for three, four, or more -minutes--exerting, after toleration is established, all the force of -which the operator is capable--is hard work. It’s much quicker and -easier, and less likely to numb the dentist’s thumb and finger, to -“slap” a gas cone over the patient’s nose, or inject cocaine around -the gums--which, to my mind, hurts almost as badly as having the tooth -extracted. - -There is yet another reason, however, which partially justifies -the previous three. The analgesic results of zone pressure are not -sufficiently uniform to “bank” on. In other words, a dentist, led by -previous successes, might be tempted confidently to assure a patient -of the painlessness, under zone analgesia, of a certain operation. But -when he commenced to work he might almost lift the top of his victim’s -head off. To obviate this do not limit the pressure to three minutes -only, and do not attempt to operate or extract until a puncturing test -with a sharp instrument shall prove the part to be desensitized. - -Also, I would here emphasize that there is no use in attempting, with -zone analgesia, to relieve pain if it is desired to remove a nerve. We -do not pretend to explain why it is possible, for instance, to work -thirty-five minutes, (as demonstrated before the Mass. Dental Society -by Dr. B. A. Sears, of Hartford) and cut the jaw bone all to pieces in -order to remove an impacted wisdom tooth, while we are unable to thrust -a nerve broach into a root canal. But the fact remains, and some time, -when pathologists and other experts have studied these problems, we -may know why. But for the present, we must be content to be guided by -dearly-bought experiences. - -There is no known way of telling in advance, just what degree of -analgesia success is assured. Dr. M. W. Maloney, of Providence, R. I., -and Dr. Wm. J. Hogan, of Hartford, Conn., claim successful results with -about 80% of their cases. Dr. Everett M. Cook, of Toledo, Ohio, writes -that he is easily successful in 75% of his cases. Dr. Thomas J. Ryan, -of New York, is quite uniformly successful in desensitizing the gums -for pyorrhoea treatment. While other dentists range on down to as low -as 50% of successes, or even to zero. - -There are probably very definite reasons for this, although it may be -difficult to convince the average dentist that such exist. First, it -requires a fine technic to find the various dental nerves, and, by -commencing gently, and gradually increasing pressures, to anesthetize -them without hurting the patient more than the operation might have -hurt him. In which case he has the pain of the operation plus the pain -of attempting to analgesize his unresponsive nerve points. - -Next, when pressures are made over the fingers, especially where no -clamps or rubber bands are used, there is a tendency to skimp on the -time devoted to the finger squeezing. The dentist or his assistant will -give the job a “lick and a promise”--and let it go at that. They don’t -use sufficient time or sufficient force really to accomplish anything. - -And third, they won’t take the time properly to learn the zones and the -teeth relations, and apply in a serious way the knowledge so acquired. - -However, for the benefit of those dentists who may be interested in -learning how to desensitize cavities in sensitive teeth, or do some -of the necessarily painful scaling of tartar and other deposits in -pyorrhea, and for the particular benefit of several million of their -patients throughout the country, I would say that pressure by an -assistant exerted over the joints of the thumb (the assistant would -do better completely to “cover” the joint, using thumbs and fingers -of both hands for this purpose), will mitigate or quite control the -pain in the incisor and occasionally the cuspid teeth of the side -corresponding to the finger being squeezed. - -Never let the patient do this for himself, unless you provide him with -clamps or wide rubber bands for the purpose, as he cannot be trusted -to make the pressures long enough or strong enough to accomplish -satisfactory results. - -Pressure exerted over the first or second joint of the first finger -will control pain in the cuspid and bicuspid teeth. The second finger -is related to the two molars, but sometimes the third (or ring) finger -must also be employed for this region. - -In other words, pressure upon the thumb, fore-finger, middle, and -ring fingers of either hand will control correspondingly pain in the -incisors, cuspids and bicuspids and the two molars on either side of -the median line, providing that there is no great inflammation or no -abscess in the vicinity of the corresponding teeth. - -Occasionally the “control” over-laps, in which case it is necessary to -use also the finger next to the zone finger, and in the case of wisdom -teeth, to get the best results it is sometimes advisable to use both -the third and the little finger--as the fourth and fifth zones merge in -the head. - -A very successful method practiced by some experts--particularly where -extraction must be done--is to grasp the offending tooth as near the -apex of the root as is practicable, and with the thumb and finger make -firm pressure for three, four, or more minutes--by the watch. This -usually produces a degree of anaesthesia lasting about one half hour, -although pressure can, if necessary, be reapplied at any time. - -Other dentists and oral surgeons get excellent results by pressing on -the “heel of the jaw”--the point directly back of the wisdom tooth, -ponderously known as “the tuberosity of the superior maxillary.” This -produces a very complete and lasting anaesthesia of the entire jaw of -the side affected, and permits of the painless extraction of teeth -living in the immediate neighborhood. - -[Illustration: FIG. 25--Pressure at I, Fig. 4, with thumb and finger -will anesthetize both thumb zones, inasmuch as the pressure is brought -directly on the median line and to the right and left of it. - -Pressure at II (pressure on inferior dental and lingual nerves) will -anesthetize not only entire jaw on side compressed, but to a greater or -less extent the entire half of the body. - -Pressure at _a_ with thumb and finger will often anesthetize that -zone sufficiently for painless extraction. Any tooth may be prepared -similarly. - -Pressure at _b_ with thumb and finger anesthetizes bicuspids and -occasionally molars. - -Pressure at III will aid materially in anesthetization.] - -With the lower front teeth, it has been found that to press or hold -the inferior (or lower) dental nerve, where it enters the ramus (or -groove) of the lower jaw, gives good anaesthesia. Also pressure with -the finger on the inferior dental nerve, where it exits from below the -bicuspid tooth (called by doctors the mental foramen) will usually -anesthetize that half of the jaw. - -Many operators, the better to “focus”, prefer to use the blunt end -of an instrument (the handle of an excavator is excellent) upon this -inferior dental nerve. - -The proper application of these principles cannot fail to be of immense -value to the dentist and oral surgeon in their daily practice. In -relieving toothache and neuralgia, in removing deposits, in extracting -teeth, and in fact in most painful operations which dentists are called -upon to perform, this pressure technique should prove invaluable, as -many dentists are learning every day. - -And further, the application of these principles will inevitably -encourage public interest in dentistry, and will materially diminish -the sum total of pain and suffering that humanity is called upon -to endure. Indeed, it is common--and highly gratifying--among many -dentists now using zone analgesia--to have sensitive patients--those -upon whom, because of past exhausting and nerve-racking experiences, -they have always dreaded working--say “Well, Doctor, if you never hurt -me any more than you did today I shall never again fear to come to you.” - -[Illustration: FIG. 26--Pressure at IV will not only anesthetize the -third and fourth zones, but frequently also that half of the upper jaw. - -Pressure at V with finger covering the median line and counter pressure -with the thumb on the outside of the jaw, or even on the lip directly -opposite the finger, will usually anesthetize the incisors sufficiently -for painless extraction.] - -Mothers will find this method a safe and certain means of relieving -themselves and their children of an immense amount of pain and -discomfort. For, while they cannot, of course, hope to possess the -technical knowledge enabling them to find and exert pressure upon the -nerves themselves, it is a comparatively simple matter for them to -rigidly grasp the roots of an aching tooth between their thumb and -finger, and temporarily relieve pain--at least until they can take -little Alfred or Alice to the dentist. - -If this may not seem feasible, they can, by remembering the fingers -that correspond with the particular zone it is desired to influence, -do much to relieve distressing conditions in that zone until such time -as the doctor or dentist can be visited, by squeezing, or by applying -rubber bands around the proper fingers. - -For example: At a dinner party the other night one of the guests -complained of severe pain in the right upper first molar. I told her to -squeeze firmly the joint of her second or middle finger, which advice -she considered a very ill-timed and pointless joke. Insisting that I -was serious and helpfully disposed, she obeyed instructions, and in a -very few minutes beamed complete relief from her dental anguish. - -Another instance in which toothache was relieved in what might be -called an _outré_ manner was reported by Dr. J. F. Roemer of Waukegan, -Ill., who operated with a pair of rubber bands upon the aching teeth -of a young traveling man. Dr. Roemer writes that this man came to -the office with an extremely painful and sensitive condition, -chiefly affecting the incisor teeth. As the knight of the leather bag -explained it his teeth were so “sore” that he could not eat any solid -food whatever, and he didn’t much relish the food he drank. It was -impossible for him to close his teeth together without causing great -distress. A dentist who had examined the salesman could find nothing -wrong with the teeth, from the dental standpoint. - -Dr. Roemer, however, examined him in a characteristic zone therapy way. -He searched the patient’s fingers with a metal comb to find out what -was the matter with his teeth. This search disclosed the presence of -“spots” on the insides of the thumb and first finger which were acutely -sensitive to pressures from the teeth of the comb. - -The diagnosis established, the treatment was simplicity itself. -Commencing with light pressures upon these sensitive areas the doctor -gradually increased the force applied to the comb, at the same time -engaging the owner of the thumb and teeth in conversation relative to -his business, and to the political situation--this latter a perennial -source of interest-absorbing conversation in the West. - -After about ten minutes of this operation the doctor looked up -and asked his victim “how the teeth were getting along.” After -cautiously testing their sensitiveness by means of various biting -pressures, the patient responded that “while they were still a little -‘sore’ the pain had entirely left.” - -The doctor then issued instructions as to how to apply rubber bands -in order to make the proper pressure, which is to use one-fourth -inch bands about two inches in length, bind them around the first -joint--counting from the tip--of the thumb and first finger, leave them -on until bluish discoloration appeared, then remove, and re-apply after -a few hours. - -The traveling-man reported the following day that he had enjoyed a good -night’s sleep--the first for many nights--and after forty-eight hours -of this treatment he telephoned that all pain and sensitiveness had -completely disappeared. - -In neuralgia and other painful conditions of long standing, where -there are no decayed teeth--or other dental causes for the pain--many -permanent cures have been effected by pressure treatment. Almost it -would seem that whatever tends to reduce the pain would also help -remedy its cause, no matter how remote. - -As illustrating, in detail, the successful “home treatment” of -neuralgia, another case of Dr. Roemer’s is most interesting. The -Doctor says “I saw recently a patient with tri-facial neuralgia of two -years’ standing. Nothing had relieved permanently. The attack which -brought him to me was of four or five days’ duration. During this time -he had been unable to eat. Even the attempt to speak would bring on -an acute paroxysm of pain of a sharp piercing nature, which radiated -over the entire left side of the face, extending from the lower and the -upper jaw, and up into the left eye. These paroxysms left him as ‘limp -as a rag.’ - -“He had been advised to have the nerve cut, as offering the only relief -for his trouble. - -“I applied rubber bands on the joints nearest the tip of the thumb and -forefinger of the left hand. In less than ten minutes my patient was -talking and laughing, and we had quite a visit. - -“I told him nothing about what was being attempted with the bands, so -he wasn’t ‘hypnotized.’ After we saw results, however, I instructed him -to apply the bands every half hour if the pain continued, and as it -decreased to lengthen the interval of the applications. - -“When next I saw him, several days after, he laughingly said, ‘Oh, I -apply the rubbers once a day now, as I don’t want that pain to come -back.’ He is now enjoying life better than he has for years, thanks to -‘those fool rubber bands,’ as his daughter called them.” - -Many dentists secure a very satisfactory degree of -analgesia--sufficient for excavating or treatments--by compressing -firmly the lip or cheek immediately over the tooth that is to be worked -upon. (See Fig. 27.) But as a rule, for extraction purposes, they -prefer pressure over the roots, or directly upon the various branches -of the dental nerves. (See Figs. 25 and 26.) - -[Illustration: FIG. 27--Patient anesthetizing the left jaws in the -first zone, by firmly pressing the lip directly opposite, between the -thumb and index finger of left hand, indicating the area with the right -index finger.] - -[Illustration: FIG. 28--Stickpin firmly imbedded in a section of the -anesthetized area shown in Fig. 27.] - -One of the most significant facts in connection with zone therapy is -the intimate relation between morbid dental conditions and pain or even -pathological changes in practically every section of the body. It has -been demonstrated beyond a shadow of doubt, that points--or foci--of -infection within the mouth, or in the teeth, frequently manifest -disturbances most remote from their point of origin. - -This is one reason why many physicians and surgeons, using the method, -make a routine practice of sending every patient, in whom dental -disease is even suspected, for a thorough overhauling by a competent -dentist. - -Another reason for striving to keep all our original teeth in their -places is that nature intended to preserve the continuity--if it -may be so termed--of our various nerve zones. Sound, healthy teeth -and roots in their normal occlusion, seem to assist in the normal -functioning of the entire zone chain of which they are important links. - -Asthma, congestions, headaches, neuralgia, conditions affecting -the nerves of the head or the ears, or even partial deafness, have -been materially improved, and many times completely cured, by the -application of a galvanic cautery around the necks of the teeth, by -pressure on the teeth themselves in the zone affected, or even by -having the patient “grind” the particular teeth related to those areas -which it is attempted favorably to influence. - -In several instances, chronic frontal headaches in children have -been cured by correcting faulty occlusion of the front teeth by that -branch of dentistry known as “Orthodontia.” When after several months’ -treatment, the teeth were restored to their normal alignment, and -continuity of the nerve zone was re-established, the headaches cleared -up, and there has been no return of them. - -[Illustration: FIG. 29--A prominent Connecticut dentist anesthetizes -the entire left half of his body through pressure on left inferior -dental nerve. See following cut.] - -[Illustration: FIG. 30--We might have covered the left side of the body -with stick-pins without his knowledge, as far as pain was concerned, -during the period of fifteen minutes of anesthesia which followed his -pressure of one minute with the finger on the left inferior dental -nerve. Note the stick-pins in ear, finger and leg.] - -Occasionally it happens that a patient will go to a physician who -uses zone analgesia to be prepared for the services of a dentist -who doesn’t. Only recently a man suffering from indigestion and -rheumatoid arthritis (rheumatism of the joints with progressive -stiffening) was advised by his physician to have his teeth removed, the -doctor insisting that because four wisdom teeth were the only teeth -he had that were not decayed and completely broken down, nothing else -would cure his indigestion and rheumatism. - -His heart action was such that it would have been dangerous to -administer cocaine--much less a general anesthetic. - -Therefore, for the removal of his 27 teeth and stumps, the pressure -method was decided upon. His physician accompanied him to the dentist, -and doctor and dentist, for the next twenty minutes made the proper -pressures on the fingers and on the inferior dental nerves. - -All the lower teeth were then removed--without a particle of pain. -Pressures were then repeated on the fingers and the palatine nerves, -and the teeth in the upper jaw were likewise removed. - -Of the entire 27, only two gave much pain on extraction, and these -were most strongly attached to the bony processes (the sockets and -attachments by which teeth are held in place). Bleeding following this -wholesale extraction was very slight. - -It may be interesting to know that after the gums had healed and the -patient had worn artificial teeth for a few months, his appetite and -digestion improved, he began to gain in weight, and there was an almost -complete relief from the rheumatic symptoms and the joint stiffening. - -In some instances physicians have applied the pressures in their own -offices, and have then sent the patients--with rubber bands bound -tightly around their finger joints in order to maintain the analgesic -influence--to the dentist, where their extraction or cavity preparation -has been painlessly done. - -And occasionally great pleasure and satisfaction is afforded both -patient and doctor when some sufferer calls up on the ’phone at two -or three in the morning and inquires what finger to press to relieve -the pain of a certain tooth, especially when the advice given has been -followed by relief. - -[Illustration: FIG. 31--Hand and arm, left eyelid and chin, decorated -with stickpins after the patient has anesthetized the left side of the -body by pressure on the left inferior dental nerve.] - -[Illustration: FIG. 32--A lighted match is held beneath patient’s right -great toe, anesthetized through pressure on the inner surface of the -jaw in the first zone.] - -It has been for many years a quite general piece of knowledge among -dentists that the application of menthol to the mucous membrane of the -nose, on the same side as an aching tooth, would very frequently stop -the toothache. If dentists will now apply a slight elaboration of this -bit of zone analgesia technic they may possibly save themselves many -gray hairs. What their patients will save in agony, apprehension, and -the drain on their vitality cannot be even estimated. - - - - -CHAPTER 17. - -ZONE THERAPY--FOR DOCTORS ONLY. - - -We grind and grit our teeth during paroxysms of pain. When we bump our -shins against a rocking-chair that has taken point of vantage directly -in our path, immediately we clasp the offended shin. - -In the days before the blessed era of nitrous-oxide and local -anesthetics, when the muscular dentist leaned toward the door with our -pet tooth in the firm embrace of shiny forceps, we helped him to the -utmost by gripping the arms of the chair with vise-like clutch. This -maneuver seemingly had no more connection with tooth extraction than -have the effulgent rays of the moon upon the pumpkin crop. But we felt -our duty, and we did it. - -When fury and anger sweep us in their red flame, and gentle, familiar -aspects of nature take on the hue of blood, we clench our fists until -the nails are driven deep into the flesh. In the first shock of the -agony of bereavement, or during those cruel dragging hours when we are -adjusting ourselves to living with our hearts torn asunder, we clasp -our hands in frenzy. - -For ages we have been doing these things because they are natural and -apparently inevitable. We did them automatically, without knowing why. -But now we know we do them because they are instructive and scientific. -We do these things involuntarily and automatically because they relieve -pain or nerve tension--because they produce a form of analgesia, or -pain-deadening, similar to that which follows the injection of water or -some anesthetic solution into a sensory nerve. - -Six years ago I accidentally discovered that pressure with a -cotton-tipped probe on the mucocutaneous margin (where the skin joins -the mucous membrane) of the nose gave an anesthetic result as though a -cocaine solution had been applied. - -I further found that there were many spots in the nose, mouth, throat, -and on both surfaces of the tongue which, when pressed firmly, deadened -definite areas to sensation. Also, that pressures exerted over any bony -eminence, on the hands, feet, or over the joints, produced the same -characteristic results in pain relief. I found also that when pain -was relieved, the condition that produced the pain was most generally -relieved. This led to my “mapping out” these various areas and their -associated connections, and also to noting the conditions influenced -through them. This science I have named zone therapy. It is somewhat -complicated in many of its aspects, but I shall try and make it as -clear as may be. I would emphasize, however, that to master it requires -long study and patient application. - -In zone therapy we divide the body longitudinally into ten zones, five -on each side of a median or central line. (See Figs. 1 and 2.) The -first, second, third, fourth and fifth zones begin in the toes and end -in the thumbs and fingers, or begin in the thumbs and fingers and end -in the toes, if you prefer it this way. For instance, the first zone -extends from the great toe up the entire height of the body, including -the chest and the back, and down the arm into the thumb. The other -digits are related to their particular zones, in like manner. - -The tongue is divided into ten zones. Pressure on the dorsal (top) -surface of the individual zones on the tongue affect the corresponding -anterior (or front) sections of zones everywhere throughout the body. -But firm pressures on the tongue, continued for several minutes, affect -both back and front zones. The hard and soft palate (forming the roof -of the mouth) and the posterior walls of the pharynx (the back of -the throat) and epipharynx (where the back of the nose and throat -join) are divided in the same way, and posterior pressure or contact -affects posterior sections of zones; while anterior pressure or contact -affects anterior sections of zones. Traction (or pulling with a hooked -probe--see B, Fig. 11) on the soft palate in the epipharynx affects the -anterior zones, and traction on the anterior pillars of the fauces, -(pillars in front of the tonsils) affects zones one, two, three, four -and five, especially in arms and shoulders in the posterior sections of -zones. Pressure on the anterior surface of the lips and the anterior -surface of the anterior pillars of the fauces affects the anterior -surface of all zones. Pressure on the posterior surface of the lower -lips affects the posterior sections of all zones. - -Pain in any part of the first zone may be treated and overcome, -temporarily at least, and often permanently, by pressure on all -surfaces of the first joint of the great toe, or on the corresponding -joint of the thumb. Should the pressure be limited to the upper surface -of the great toe, the anesthetic or analgesic effects will extend up -the front of the body to the fronto-parietal suture--where the bones -join on top of the skull. They will also extend across the chest and -down the anterior surface of the first zone of the arm and thumb, and -often to the thumb side of the index finger. Should pressure be made on -the under surface of the great toe, the effects will extend along the -first zone in the sole of the foot and up the back of the leg, thigh, -body and head in that zone to the above-named suture; also across the -back and down the posterior surface of the first zone of the arm and -thumb, and frequently the thumb side of the index finger. - -Firm pressure on the end of the great toe or tip of thumb will control -the entire first zone. Firm pressure on the tips of the fingers or -toes control individual zones. Lateral or side pressure on thumbs and -fingers or toes will affect lateral or side boundaries of the zones -pressed, and also transverse extensions to nostrils, lips and ears. - -A limited amount of anesthesia may often be established by pressure -over any resistant bony surface, in any zone compressed, and often the -mere momentary contact with the galvanic cautery, or pressure with -a sharp-pointed applicator, or with the thumb or finger-nail, will -produce the same result. Contacts, especially with aluminum combs or -pointed instruments, may be momentary, if frequently repeated, but -protracted contacts are often necessary. - -Prolonged pressure with an aluminum hair comb is fast becoming a -popular method, but similar pressures with the nails of the thumbs and -fingers are likely the method Nature intended. Pressure with bands -of elastic, metal, cloth, or leather on the fingers, toes, wrists -and ankles, as well as on the knees and elbows, are often useful in -overcoming pain in an individual zone or group of zones. If these -pressures are resisted by pathological processes elsewhere in the -zone or zones, pain is sometimes excited. In other words, if there -is an abscess or some active inflammatory condition present,--as in -middle-ear trouble, pressure often aggravates or stimulates the pain to -renewed endeavors. It usually however, overcomes the pain momentarily. -Zone pressure has, for this reason, become a diagnostic factor of -great value in disclosing hidden pus conditions or inflammatory -processes--particularly in the roots of teeth, the ears, appendix, -ovaries, or in other organs. - -Pain anywhere in any zone may be overcome more quickly by pressure with -an applicator, or with cautery contact at certain points throughout the -corresponding zone or zones in the mouth, pharynx, epipharynx and nose; -but the finger and toe pressures may be relied upon very often. What -applies to one zone applies to all. - -Pressures average from one-half minute to four minutes or longer, -depending upon the susceptibility of the patient. - -Heat or cold waves in varying degrees, depending upon the solution or -instruments used, may often be dispatched to the extremities from the -mouth, nose, etc., and similar waves of heat or cold will manifest -themselves in the mouth, nose and pharynx of susceptible individuals -from pressure or contact on the extremities. The most susceptible -patients will describe them accurately. For instance, if a cotton -tipped probe be dipped in camphor solution, or alcohol, the patient -will describe the sensation reflected along the particular zone pressed -as “cold.” If in nitrate of silver, or trichloracetic acid, he says it -is “hot.” - -The majority of patients say that, while they are unable to detect -these sensations--only extra-susceptible individuals have this -faculty,--their pain is disappearing, or has already disappeared. -Patients who are most susceptible to pressure or contact will trace -heat or cold from an individual hair of the head, or an eyelash, to -the margin of the finger-nail or toe-nail, and if a hair or eyelash -be quickly pulled out, the sensation of numbness is often quickly -registered beneath the finger-nail or toe-nail of the invaded zone. -But to give these delicate results the subjects must be very -responsive. - -Pressure or contact upon the occlusal, or biting, edges of the teeth -affect the innermost parts of practically every bone in the body. We -believe that the teeth, being the most accessible, are the natural -guardians of the bones throughout the body. The heat waves from the -application of a fine point cautery contact on the biting edges of -the teeth, are dispatched through the centers of all bones, and their -therapeutic, or curative effect is disseminated through the bones and -tissue in the zones treated. Naturally, the therapeutic effect is less -marked as the surface of the body is approached. - -Pressure or contact on the anterior surface of the teeth affects the -anterior surface of the bones in the anterior sections of bones, and -to a greater or less extent the tissues of the same zones in the -corresponding sections. Pressure or contact on the posterior surface of -the teeth affect the posterior surface of the bones in the posterior -sections of zones treated, and to a greater or less extent the tissues -of the same zones in the corresponding sections. - -An asset not generally recognized in normal occlusion of a natural -set of teeth is the ability of the patient to relax practically every -part of the body through firm, biting pressure for two or three -minutes on all surfaces of the upper and lower teeth. In this manner -pain may frequently be relieved in any section of a zone, or group of -zones, throughout the body, and occasionally even anesthesia may be -induced through firm occlusion of the teeth for two or three minutes -in these zones. This is at least one reason why all the teeth should -be preserved, if at all possible, and why normal occlusion should be -brought about if it does not already exist. If one be deprived of -the third molar teeth, for instance, his ability to prevent, relieve -or overcome pathological conditions in the fourth and fifth zones is -restricted; and this naturally applies to the various individual zones -or group of zones where teeth have been extracted. - -You would hardly believe that offending corns or warts or bitten -finger-nails, where inflammatory processes have been excited, may be -responsible for rheumatism or neuritis, but we are daily proving such -to be the case. - -Toe-nails and finger-nails must be respected and as well taken care -of, for health’s sake, as any other section of the individual zones. -There is not a section of a finger-nail or toe-nail that may not affect -(under stimulation or pressure) the most distant parts of the body. - -Also, it might be of interest here to note that while enough pressure -is good, too much is mild murder. This can be testified to by all who, -by means of new shoes, foolishly apply constricting pressures to their -toes. There ensues, after the lapse of an appreciable length of time, -a condition made up of equal parts of bodily weakness and nervous -irritability--an actual physical and spiritual fatigue--relieved only -by removing the pressure--in other words, by relieving zone pressure -inhibition. - -Tight belts, corsets, or collars will develop similar, or even worse, -effects, inasmuch as their influence embraces not only the undue -irritation of the nerve zones, but also the constricting influences -upon glands, blood vessels and internal organs. - -All zones must be free from irritation and obstructions to get the best -results. For instance, if there be pain in the head, chest, abdomen, or -extremities in one or more zones, it may be relieved or quite overcome -by pressure on resistant surfaces anywhere in the zones affected. If -the pain be relieved for a few moments only, and repeated pressures -do not overcome it, it is safe to assume that the pain is due to some -abnormal pressure or irritation, as gas, pus, impactions, necrosis, -etc., somewhere in a zone or group of zones, which demands medical or -surgical interference. - -We are repeatedly called upon for the theory of zone therapy. Many -theories are interesting but not conclusive, and rather than be obliged -to retract theories, we are not going to advance them, except very -superficially, at the expense of clinical facts. It is certain that -control-centers in the medulla are stimulated, as has been suggested, -but I believe that it is shock more often than stimulation. Some -theorists have pointed out, perhaps rightly, that “these functions may -be carried out by the pituitary body (a ductless gland at the base of -the brain) through the multiple nerve paths from it.” - -We know that we induce a state of inhibition--a state which prevents -the transmission of the nerve impulse from the brain--throughout -the zone where pressure is brought to bear. We know that when this -inhibition of irritation is continuous, many pathological processes -disappear. We are certain that lymphatic relaxation follows pressure, -and the lymph stimulated to flow normally in its channels. - -The theory advanced by Dr. Bowers: “that inasmuch as there are -ultra-microscopic bacteria--bacteria not seen through even the -highest-powered lenses,--it is more than likely that in the light of -this work there are ultra-microscopic connections analogous to those -we call nerves,” may contain some elements of plausibility. - -Let the physician or the dentist, who ascribes these phenomena to -suggestion, attempt to relieve an aching, left incisor, for instance, -by pressing the little finger of the right hand of his patient, or -exercise his persuasive powers on a throbbing molar by pressing the -thumb of either hand. He will find himself up against a stone wall, so -far as results are concerned, for only by exerting proper pressure, on -the proper zone or zones, for an adequate length of time, will the pain -disappear. Anticipating such contentions, and to avoid the merest hint -at suggestion, we have purposely refrained from giving many patients -any idea that we were even contemplating the relief of pain, and the -first and only suggestions have been from the patient. He will tell -that he experienced pain in his jaw, eye, small of back, knee, foot, or -shoulder before pressure was made on his fingers, teeth, or elsewhere, -and will ask, “where has the pain gone? Have you done anything to -relieve it?” - -Pathological conditions from irritation in the nose, epipharynx, -pharynx, mouth, vagina, rectum, etc., may be responsible not only for -annoying local manifestations, but for obscure pathological changes in -the most remote sections of the body; and their course can usually be -traced through an individual zone or group of zones. There is not an -existing pathological condition that cannot at least be relieved, and a -large proportion can be cured by zone therapy. - -This shows how necessary it is that the physician and surgeon should be -capable of diagnosing and treating disease in all parts of the body, -especially if his practice be limited to the country, where he may be -unable to consult with specialists. If the pathological condition he -has treated does not “clear up,” the case should be referred to the -specialist or dentists, for, to secure results, all parts of the zones -or group of zones must be free from obstruction and irritation. - -Zone therapy demonstrates the co-relation of all parts of the body, -also the manner in which pressure or contact upon certain zones is -effective in the relief of pain or disease. - -Diagnosis of the cause of pain may be worked out quite perfectly over -or through any zone or part of zone. If a patient complains of pain, -and indicates that the right eye is involved, and you overcome the pain -by pressure on the front of the right index finger, it is absolutely -certain that his disturbance is excited by congestion or irritation in -the anterior section of the zone; but if it be necessary to look to the -palmar surface of the index finger for relief the cause is certain to -exist in the posterior section of the zone or zones. - -We have never suggested this work as a panacea, but finding it -helpful in the treatment of human ills, we consider it an asset to -our knowledge of medicine and surgery, and have been glad to offer it -gratuitously to physicians, surgeons, and dentists, and to all who can -make use of it in the relief of afflicted humanity. - -[Illustration: Valens Metronomic Interrupter (Style D) - -(For Producing Dr. White’s Pulsoidal Current) - -FIG. 33.] - - - - -CHAPTER 18. - -FOOD FOR THOUGHT. - - -When “Professor” Robert Fitzsimmons delivered the famous punch in -the solar plexus that laid the mighty James Corbett upon whatever -it is they cover a boxing ring with, he demonstrated to everybody’s -satisfaction--except perhaps Mr. Corbett’s--that there is a group of -nerves in the “pit of the stomach” which has an intimate and most -distressful connection with the brain. And now every doctor knows the -functions and connections of the pneumogastric nerve. - -Gunmen, pugilists, and “bouncers” also know that if the temple, or -the angle of the jaw, be even lightly “tapped,” the tappee is usually -placed hors de combat for an appreciable period of time. General -knowledge of this weighty academic subject is comparatively recent--as -time is reckoned. - -And the Japs, in their uncanny knowledge of nerve anatomy, exemplified -in their proficiency in jui jitsu, have shown that, by pressure upon -certain nerve terminals, or upon plexuses of nerve groups they are -able to do almost everything except murder a victim. Perhaps they could -do this, also, if they were sufficiently industrious and persevering. - -Indeed, for many years they have been aware that there are certain -nerve centers in the neck and under the angle of the jaw, pressure upon -which will temporarily suspend consciousness. In fact, their methods -were tried by surgeons, prior to the discovery of anesthesia; but were -discarded, owing to the fact that no one could guarantee that the -patients would wake again after the operation. - -Also, as showing how great oaks from little acorns grow, and how mickle -and mickle makes muckle. Professor William Halstead, more than a dozen -years ago, was operating upon a man with a rupture--under cocaine -anesthesia, as he thought. It was found, however, after the operation -had been painlessly completed, that the moon-stricken assistant, had -forgotten to put the cocaine tablet in the syringe. - -So that all the anesthetic the patient got was sterile water. However, -this was enough, for the pressure of the water injection into the -parts, had blocked the nerve tract, and inhibited the transmission of -the message of pain. - -This experience may or may not have given Dr. Crile the clue to his -interesting and vastly important discovery of “nerve block,” but, in -any event, we learned something new about the human body. But--and this -is the point I wish to emphasize--we are not through learning about it -yet. - -So, if some time a doctor tells you that a woman of sixty-nine, -suffering for years from one-sided paralysis, made pressures twice -daily with an aluminum comb on the top (or front) of the hand, favoring -the thumb side--and in two weeks noticed a decided improvement, and -after five months can now lift her foot free from the floor and walk -without a cane, don’t sneer. - -If another tells you that a case of infantile paralysis, of five years’ -standing--after several months’ treatment with a probe on the back wall -of the pharynx, can now kick as high as his shoulder with either foot, -don’t scoff. For that doctor has photos of the boy, showing him in the -act of doing just this identical thing. - -It may also be that catarrhal appendicitis is helped. For in unorthodox -ways three cases of catarrhal appendicitis were apparently cured by -pressures exerted with a comb over the first, second and third finger, -and carried up as far as the wrist. These cases were diagnosed as -catarrhal appendicitis by several competent medical men. They showed -all the classical symptoms, including pain on pressure over McBurney’s -point, vomiting, and digestive disturbances. They were treated three -times daily for several days, and in the interim, treated themselves -at home along the same lines. In ten days to two weeks, there was an -apparent cure of all three cases. And now, after six months, there has -been no return of the condition. - -And, speaking of appendicitis, it is interesting to note that if pain -is relieved by zone pressure, and returns after a short time, we can be -morally certain that there is pus present, and that the case demands -immediate operation. This same thing, as we before observed, applies to -abscesses in the ear, teeth, tonsil, or anywhere else. - -The injunction to “prove all things and hold fast to that which -is true,” is as applicable and pertinent today as it was when -first dropped from the lips of the old sage. So, if some time your -progressive doctor should tell you to rub your finger nails together, -and scratch the front of your hands and arms, and thereby cure falling -hair, don’t laugh--because he may be repeating to you only what numbers -of his patients have told him they did--and stopped their hair from -leaving its moorings. - -Also, if he tells you to use a wire brush on the front and back of the -hand, and also press with the aluminum comb on the palms of the hand, -to cure cold feet, he may not be nearly as crazy as he sounds. He may -be merely a little ahead of your time, as were Harvey, Semmelweis, -Horace Wells, Lister, and hundreds of others, who have suffered the -slings and arrows of ridicule. - -And so, we who believe in zone therapy now understand why we grind our -teeth. It is because the action relieves nerve tension, and diminishes -the pain in all the zones of the body connected by those invisible and -as yet undiscovered nervous wires strung through the telegraph poles of -the teeth. - -When we grab our bruised shins we check the transmission of pain in the -irritated nerve trunk lines of that zone. When we grasp the arm of the -dental chair, and hang on like grim death, we are unconsciously going -through motions that, if continued long enough, would have made our -trial comparatively painless. The only fault in our preparation for the -ordeal was that we should have started our pressure grip three or four -minutes earlier. But our intentions were good. - -When automatically we clench our fists in furious anger, we are -relieving our terrific nervous excitation, and thereby perhaps -preventing the bursting of a blood vessel. When we clasp the hands of -one sorely stricken and in the throes of despair, we are, in addition -to supplying him with comforting magnetism and physical solace, -producing a distinctly analgesic and quieting effect upon his entire -nervous system. - -And when we clasp our hands or press the fingers tightly together in -supplication, we are ministering to over-wrought nerves, and thereby -perhaps bringing ourselves into closer harmony with the great Cosmic -Force that envelopes us all in a mantle of kindness and love. - - -[CONCLUSION.] - - - - -Spelling corrections: - - exopthalmic → exophthalmic - opthalmic → ophthalmic - pres-pressure → pressure - of → or - whatosever → whatsoever - flniching → flinching - mucus membrane → mucous membrane - mucos membrane → mucous membrane - miscroscopic → microscopic - nitrous oxid → nitrous oxide - mucocutaneus → mucocutaneous - it → is - cocain → cocaine - lumbag → lumbago - -Spelling inconsistencies: - - thoro/thorough - thoroly/thoroughly - tonsilitis/tonsillitis - Fitzgerald/FitzGerald - thru/through - altho/although - technic/technique - pyorrhea/pyorrhoea - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Zone Therapy, by -William H. 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Fitzgerald and Edwin F. Bowers - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Zone Therapy - Relieving Pain at Home - -Author: William H. Fitzgerald - Edwin F. Bowers - -Release Date: April 15, 2017 [EBook #54553] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ZONE THERAPY *** - - - - -Produced by Thiers Halliwell, deaurider and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - - - -<div class="transnote"> -<p><b><a id="Transcribers_notes"></a>Transcriber’s notes</b>:</p> - -<p>The text of this e-book has been preserved in its original -form apart from correction of several typographic errors (<a -href="#Spelling_inconsistencies">listed</a> at the end). Inconsistent -spelling, punctuation and chapter numbering (mixed Arabic/Roman -numerals) remain as in the original. Some illustrations have been -moved nearer to the relevant text. A black dotted underline indicates -a hyperlink to a page or illustration (hyperlinks are also highlighted -when the mouse pointer hovers over them). <span class="htmlonly">Page -numbers are shown in the right margin.</span></p> - -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 525px;"> - <img id="coverpage" src="images/i_cover.jpg" width="525" height="700" alt="Book cover" /> -</div> - -<div class="titlepage"> - -<h1><span class="t1">ZONE THERAPY</span> - -<span class="t2">OR</span> - -<span class="t3">RELIEVING PAIN AT HOME</span></h1> - -<hr class="r20" /> - -<div class="tp1">BY</div> - -<div class="tp2">WM. H. FITZGERALD, M. D.</div> - -<div class="tp3">AND</div> - -<div class="tp2">EDWIN F. BOWERS, M. D.</div> - -<div class="tp4">Author of “Side Stepping Ill Health”<br /> -“Alcohol—Its Influence on Mind and Body,” etc.</div> - -<div class="tp5">COLUMBUS, OHIO:<br /> -I. W. LONG, Publisher<br /> -1917</div> - -</div> - - - -<p class="tac mtb10em fs80">COPYRIGHT, 1917<br /> -BY<br /> -I. W. LONG</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" title="3"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3"></a></span></p> - - - - -<h2>CONTENTS.</h2> - - - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary="Table of Contents"> -<tr><td class="tac"><div><span class="smcap">   Chapter I.</span></div></td><td class="tar"><span class="lowercase smcap">PAGE</span></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tal">Relieving Pain by Pressure</td><td class="tar"><div><a href="#Page_15">15</a></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tac pt13" colspan="2"><div><span class="smcap">Chapter II.</span></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tal">That Aching Head</td><td class="tar"><div><a href="#Page_24">24</a></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tac pt13" colspan="2"><div><span class="smcap">Chapter III.</span></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tal">Curing Goitre With a Probe</td><td class="tar"><div><a href="#Page_32">32</a></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tac pt13" colspan="2"><div><span class="smcap">Chapter IV.</span></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tal">Finger Squeezing for Eye Troubles</td><td class="tar"><div><a href="#Page_43">43</a></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tac pt13" colspan="2"><div><span class="smcap">Chapter V.</span></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tal">Making the Deaf Hear</td><td class="tar"><div><a href="#Page_50">50</a></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tac pt13" colspan="2"><div><span class="smcap">Chapter VI.</span></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tal">Painless Child Birth</td><td class="tar"><div><a href="#Page_61">61</a></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tac pt13" colspan="2"><div><span class="smcap">Chapter VII.</span></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tal">Zone Therapy for Women</td><td class="tar"><div><a href="#Page_76">76</a></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tac pt13" colspan="2"><div><span class="smcap">Chapter VIII.</span></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tal">Relaxing Nervous Tension</td><td class="tar"><div><a href="#Page_83">84</a></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tac pt13" colspan="2"><div><span class="smcap">Chapter IX.</span></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tal">Curing Lumbago with a Comb</td><td class="tar"><div><a href="#Page_93">93</a></div><span class="pagenum" title="4"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4"></a></span></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tac pt13" colspan="2"><div><span class="smcap">Chapter X.</span></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tal">Scratching the Hand for Sick Stomach</td><td class="tar"><div><a href="#Page_104">104</a></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tac pt13" colspan="2"><div><span class="smcap">Chapter XI.</span></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tal">Hay Fever, Asthma and Tonsillitis</td><td class="tar"><div><a href="#Page_111">111</a></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tac pt13" colspan="2"><div><span class="smcap">Chapter XII.</span></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tal">Curing a Sick Voice</td><td class="tar"><div><a href="#Page_120">120</a></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tac pt13" colspan="2"><div><span class="smcap">Chapter XIII.</span></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tal">A Specific for Whooping and Other Coughs </td><td class="tar"><div><a href="#Page_129">129</a></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tac pt13" colspan="2"><div><span class="smcap">Chapter XIV.</span></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tal">How a Phantom Tumor was Dissipated</td><td class="tar"><div><a href="#Page_138">138</a></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tac pt13" colspan="2"><div><span class="smcap">Chapter XV.</span></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tal">Dr. White’s Experience</td><td class="tar"><div><a href="#Page_142">142</a></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tac pt13" colspan="2"><div><span class="smcap">Chapter XVI.</span></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tal">Zone Therapy—for Dentists Only</td><td class="tar"><div><a href="#Page_148">148</a></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tac pt13" colspan="2"><div><span class="smcap">Chapter XVII.</span></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tal">Zone Therapy—for Doctors Only</td><td class="tar"><div><a href="#Page_171">171</a></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tac pt13" colspan="2"><div><span class="smcap">Chapter XVIII.</span></div></td></tr> -<tr><td class="tal">Food for Thought</td><td class="tar"><div><a href="#Page_186">186</a></div></td></tr> -</table></div> - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" title="5"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5"></a></span></p> - - - - -<h2>INTRODUCTION</h2> -</div> - - -<p>Thousands of lives are lost annually -from diseases which could have been -prevented. Hundreds of thousands, -because of some preventable ailment, which -partially or totally incapacitates them, are today -living only a small part of their lives. Millions -of dollars yearly are squandered on medicines, -doctors and undertakers—much of which might -have been saved by a right knowledge of the laws -of health and hygiene.</p> - -<p>Even among the comfortably situated, or even -well-to-do, robust, vigorous health is the rarest -of possessions. The most rugged-looking, on -being closely and sympathetically catechised, will -admit to a “touch of rheumatism”; a chronic -stomach, liver, or kidney trouble; nervousness, -headaches, neuralgia, constipation, or something -that tends to prevent his attaining completest -physical power and mental efficiency. And the -weaker sex more than justify their descriptive -adjective. For 80% of those not directly under -a physician’s care, or taking some medicine or -form of treatment for something, should be.</p> - -<p>Conditions are improving, however. There -is a dawn of hope for humanity. For good<span class="pagenum" title="6"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6"></a></span> -health is being made a fetish. It is becoming a -gospel—a gospel preached in schools, newspapers, -magazines, churches and theatres. Accurate -knowledge concerning sanitation, sexology, -food, clothing, exercise, sleeping, resting, -and all hygienic measures, is becoming more and -more widely disseminated.</p> - -<p>Humanity is awakening to the fact that sickness, -in a large percentage of cases, is an error—of -body and mind. Ignorance of the injurious -effects of wrong foods, drinks, habits and -methods is gradually being overcome.</p> - -<p>Foremost among those engaged in educating -the public away from paths of ignorance, and -the disastrous consequences of this ignorance, is -the medical fraternity. The noblest and most -self-sacrificing profession on earth is the one -most industriously engaged in sawing the branch -between itself and the tree of Financial Gain. -The doctor is the philanthropist most impressively -employed in killing the geese that lay his -golden eggs with one hand, while he cuts his -pocket-book’s jugular vein with the other.</p> - -<p>For he catches and segregates—constructing -prisons for them, if necessary—all cases,—or -even suspected cases—of contagious disease,—disease -which, if permitted to spread broadcast, -would net him a horde of ducats.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="7"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7"></a></span></p> - -<p>He sees to it that no infectious disorders are -imported into the country—the spreading of -which would give him much practice. He traces -every typhoid case to its ultimate dirty barn, or -infected water supply, and counts that day well -spent whose low declining sun has seen him -stamp out a possible typhoid epidemic at its -source.</p> - -<p>He vaccinates all—willing and unwilling—lest -he be kept horribly busy attending a huge -army of small-pox patients.</p> - -<p>He instructs gluttons, and others, as to the -grave dangers of overeating, or of eating the -right food at the wrong time.</p> - -<p>He teaches mothers to sterilize their babies’ -bottles, and thereby keep the bugs of war at bay.</p> - -<p>He thunders against exposure, against spitting -in or on public places; he has Health Ordinances -passed, covering every conceivable method -whereby disease might develop.</p> - -<p>Untiringly and without intermission—except -during a few of the worst blizzards—he -inculcates the doctrines of flies, in their relation -to fingers and filth, and hurls Phillipics against -mosquitoes, ticks, and the insect world generally—not -forgetting bed-bugs, lice, and other -disease-breeding vermin.</p> - -<p>He extols the benefits of bathing, the rich rewards<span class="pagenum" title="8"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8"></a></span> -of fresh air, exercise, and the relief of -constipation.</p> - -<p>In fact, he takes pride in doing all that within -him lies, in order to teach the world to do without -him.</p> - -<p>Thanks to doctors, we are learning about -plumbing and posture, mastication and measles, -outdoors, deep breathing, poisons and poise. We -are finding out what bad teeth do to good health, -how to work, play and sleep so as to get the -greatest physical good from each.</p> - -<p>We are warned against overweight, alcohol, -common colds and tobacco, and the evil possibilities -in marrying one’s cousin—or some one -else’s cousin who has, or has had, syphilis, feeble-mindedness, -a drunken ancestry, epilepsy, or -some tendency to “hark back” and “revert to -type”—as did Mendel’s beans, or the black -Andalusian pullets.</p> - -<p>The subject of life and health conservation is -“in the air.” Only recently a president of the -American Medical Association made this theme -the subject of his inaugural address. Hardly a -medical journal but has one or more articles devoted -to it in each issue. We are being specifically -instructed in how to avoid disease.</p> - -<p>Now, however, we are to learn how, in many -instances, diseases, many of them most grave and<span class="pagenum" title="9"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9"></a></span> -life-shortening, may be cured. This, by measures -which conflict with no other form of treatment, -and so simple as almost to appear ridiculous. -For Dr. William H. FitzGerald, the discoverer -of zone therapy, is to tell us how he -instructs his patients, under his guidance and -direction, to cure themselves.</p> - -<p>Dr. FitzGerald’s position is one that commands -respect. He is a graduate of the University of -Vermont, and spent two and a half years in the -Boston City Hospital. He served two years in -the Central London Nose and Throat Hospital. -For a like period he was in Vienna, where he -was assistant to Professor Politzer and Professor -Otto Chiari, who are known wherever medical -text-books are read.</p> - -<p>For several years Dr. FitzGerald has been the -senior nose and throat surgeon of St. Francis -Hospital in Hartford, and is an active member -of most of the American medical societies.</p> - -<p>I have known Dr. FitzGerald for many years. -He is able and honest, a skillful and competent -surgeon, and a student. No matter how foolish, -how ridiculous his methods may seem, they are -most decidedly not the vaporings of a dreamer -or a charlatan. They are the calmly digested -findings of a trained scientific mind.</p> - -<p>And so Dr. FitzGerald is to give us specific<span class="pagenum" title="10"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10"></a></span> -details of one of the most wonderful and perplexing -things connected with the art of medicine. -This, because a physician’s premise is to teach—as -well as heal. Because publicity concerning -the prevention and cure of disease is a duty he -owes mankind: not as an altruist, but as a human -being.</p> - -<p class="tar mr1em"><span class="smcap">Edwin F. Bowers</span>, M. D.</p> - -<p class="ml1em">Sept. 1, 1916.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" title="11"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11"></a></span></p> - - - - -<h2>PUBLISHERS’ NOTE.</h2> -</div> - -<p>The chapters comprising this book were -first published as special articles in the -“Associated Sunday Magazines”, and -“Every Week”. Accompanying the introductory -article was this comment by Mr. Bruce Barton, -the able and critical editor of these Magazines. -It explains itself:</p> - -<p>“For almost a year Dr. Bowers has been -urging me to publish this article on Dr. FitzGerald’s -remarkable system of healing, known as -zone therapy. Frankly, I could not believe what -was claimed for zone therapy, nor did I think -that we could get magazine readers to believe it. -Finally, a few months ago, I went to Hartford -unannounced, and spent a day in Dr. FitzGerald’s -offices. I saw patients who had been -cured of goiter; I saw throat and ear troubles -immediately relieved by zone therapy; I saw a -nasal operation performed without any anesthetic -whatever; and—in a dentist’s office—teeth extracted -without any anesthetic except the analgesic -influence of zone therapy. Afterward I -wrote to about fifty practising physicians in<span class="pagenum" title="12"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12"></a></span> -various parts of the country who have heard of -zone therapy and are using it for the relief of -all kinds of cases, even to allay the pains of -childbirth. Their letters are on file in my office.</p> - -<p>This first article will be followed by a number -of others in which Dr. Bowers will explain the -application of zone therapy to the various common -ailments. I anticipate criticism regarding -these articles from two sources: first, from a -small percentage of physicians; second, from -people who will attempt to use zone therapy without -success. We have considered this criticism -in advance, and are prepared to disregard it. If -the articles serve to reduce the sufferings of -people in dentists’ chairs even ten per cent., if -they will help in even the slightest way to relieve -the common pains of every-day life, they will be -amply justified.</p> - -<p>We do not know the full explanation of zone -therapy; but we do know that a great many -people have been helped by it, and that nobody -can possibly be harmed.”</p> - -<p class="tar mr1em"><span class="smcap">The Editor.</span></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="13"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13"></a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> -<a id="Fig_1"></a> -<img src="images/i_013.jpg" width="235" height="558" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p>Diagram of <b>Anterior Zones</b> on one side of the body.</p> - -<p>Both right and left sides of the body are the same.</p> - -<p>Each numbered line represents the <b>center</b> of its respective zone -on the anterior part of the body.</p> - -<p>The tongue, hard and soft palate, posterior wall of the nasopharynx -and oropharynx, and the generative organs are in ten -zones, five on each side of the median line.</p> - -<p>The middle ear is in Zone 4.</p> - -<p>The eustachian tube and middle ear combined are in Zones 3 -and 4.</p> - -<p>The upper surface of the tongue is in the anterior zones.</p> - -<p>The teeth are in the respective zones as indicated by passing a -line antero-posteriorly thru the respective zones.</p> - -<p>The viscera are in the zones as represented by a line passed -antero-posteriorly thru the respective zones.</p> - -<p class="tac"><span class="smcap">Fig. 1.</span></p></div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="14"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14"></a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> -<a id="Fig_2"></a> -<img src="images/i_014.jpg" width="260" height="601" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"> - -<div class="blockquot"> -<p>Diagram of <b>Posterior Zones</b> on one side of the body.</p> - -<p>Both right and left sides of the body are the same.</p> - -<p>Each numbered line represents the <b>center</b> of its respective -zone on the posterior part of the body.</p> - -<p>The under surface of the tongue is in the posterior zone.</p></div> - -<p><span class="smcap">Fig. 2.</span>—Posterior view, illustrating individual zones. It will be observed -that what is commonly called the back of the hand is really the -front of that member, whereas the palm of the hand corresponds to the -sole of the foot.</p></div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" title="15"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15"></a></span></p> - - - - -<h2>CHAPTER I. - -<span class="title">RELIEVING PAIN BY PRESSURE.</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>No illustrator would ever think of drawing -a picture of a boy with a green-apple -colic, unless he represented that -boy with both hands clasped fervently over the -seat of war. Nor would he picture a pain anywhere -else, without showing the attempts made -to relieve this pain. For no one would believe -his illustrations, if he omitted these details.</p> - -<p>Now, while we know the fact of pain relief, -through laying on of the hands, or by kindred -measures, we know only a part of its reason -for operation. There are several of these. -They are, first, the soothing influence of animal -magnetism, experienced when we tenderly, if not -lovingly, rub the bump, accumulated in the dark -of the moon, by collision with a tall brunette -side-board, or a door carelessly left ajar. It -does soothe. This we know.</p> - -<p>Next, the manipulation of the hand over the -injured place tends to prevent a condition of -venous stasis—a state in which the injured surface -veins dam back the flow of blood, and produce<span class="pagenum" title="16"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16"></a></span> -that lurid discoloration known euphoneously -as “black and blue.”</p> - -<p>Also, pressure applied over the seat of injury -produces what Dr. George W. Crile, of Cleveland, -calls “blocked shock,” or “nerve block,” -which means that by pressing on the nerves running -from the injured part to the brain area we -inhibit or prevent the transmission to the brain -the knowledge of injury. In other words, the -hurt place can’t tell the central telegraph station -anything about the accident, because the wires -are down.</p> - -<p>Dr. Crile, and surgeons generally, now utilize -this knowledge to prevent shock during operations, -by injecting cocain, or some anesthetic -solution around the course of the nerve trunk -leading from the place to be operated upon to -the brain.</p> - -<p>But there is yet another reason, which we -have found out only yesterday. And this is zone -analgesia. Pressure over any bony eminence injured, -or pressure applied upon the zones corresponding -to the location of the injury, will tend -to relieve pain.</p> - -<p>And not only will it relieve pain, but if the -pressure is strong enough and long enough it -will frequently produce an analgesia, or insensibility -to pain, or even a condition of anesthesia<span class="pagenum" title="17"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17"></a></span>—in -which minor surgical operations may be -successfully done.</p> - -<p>This, of course, is not an infallible or invariable -result. Specialists in zone therapy have -found pressure effective in obliterating sensation -in about 65% of cases; while it will deaden pain, -or make it more bearable, in about 80%.</p> - -<p>In the hands of many who have tried these -methods the percentage often is much lower—because -they haven’t learned how to apply it. -For if the operator doesn’t “hit” the proper areas -or focal points he misses them completely—and -also misses results.</p> - -<p>In attempting the relief of pain by “working” -from the fingers it should also be emphasized -that it makes a difference, too, whether the upper -and lower or the side surfaces of the joint are -pressed. A physician experimenting with the -method was ready to condemn it because he was -unable to relieve a patient who complained of -rheumatic pains which centered on the outer side -of the ankle-bone. The doctor grasped the second -joint of the patient’s right little finger and -pressed firmly for a minute on the top and bottom -of the joint. (See Fig. <a href="#Fig_3">3</a>.) The pain persisted, -and the doctor jeered at the method.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a id="Fig_3"></a> -<img src="images/i_018.jpg" width="500" height="636" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p><span class="smcap">Fig. 3.</span>—Illustrating method of applying anterior and posterior pressure -to the finger joint.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>A disciple of zone therapy smiled, and suggested -that while the doctor had the right finger,<span class="pagenum hide" title="18"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18"></a></span><span class="pagenum" title="19"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19"></a></span> -he had the right finger in the wrong grip. The -doctor was advised to press the sides of the -finger (See Fig. <a href="#Fig_4">4</a>), instead of the top and bottom. -This was done, and the pain disappeared -in two minutes.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a id="Fig_4"></a> -<img src="images/i_020.jpg" width="500" height="641" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p><span class="smcap">Fig. 4.</span> Illustrating method of applying lateral pressure to the finger -joint.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>This pressure therapy has an advantage over -any other method of pain relief, inasmuch as it -has been proved that, in contradistinction to -opiates, when zone pressure relieves pain it likewise -tends to remove the cause of the pain, no -matter where this cause originates. And this -in conditions where seemingly one would not -expect to secure any therapeutic, or curative, -results.</p> - -<p>For instance, I recall a case of breast tumor, -with two fairly good-sized nodes, as large as -horse chestnuts. This lady had made arrangements -to be operated upon by a prominent surgeon -in Hartford, but had postponed her operation -a few weeks on account of the holidays.</p> - -<p>Meantime she had been instructed to make -pressures with a tongue depressor and with -elastic bands (See Figures <a href="#Fig_17">17</a> and <a href="#Fig_5">5</a>), for the -relief of the breast pain—which relief, by the -way, was quite complete. After a few weeks, -this lady returned to her surgeon for further examination -and to complete arrangements for -operation. Upon examining, however, the sur<span class="pagenum hide" title="20"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20"></a></span><span class="pagenum" title="21"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21"></a></span>geon -found the growth so reduced in size that -he expressed himself as unwilling to operate, as -he saw no necessity for operating. The tumor -has since completely disappeared—under these -tongue pressure treatments. This patient, and -the name of the surgeon who saw her “before -and after,” are at the disposal of any physician -who may regard this plain unvarnished tale as -an old wives’ chronicle.</p> - -<p>A small uterine fibroid made a similar happy -exit, as a result of pressures made on the floor -of the mouth, directly under the center of the -tongue. This patient next made a regular practice -of squeezing the joints of her thumb, first -and second finger, whenever she had nothing else -important to do. And the result infinitely more -than justified the means.</p> - -<p>Lymphatic enlargements, as painful glands in -the neck, arm-pits, or groin, yield even more -rapidly to this zone pressure than do tumors. -And while no claims are made to the effect that -cancer can be cured by zone therapy, yet there -are many cases in which pain has been completely -relieved, and the patients freed from the -further necessity of resorting to opiates. And -in a few cases the growths have also entirely -disappeared.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a id="Fig_5"></a> -<img src="images/i_022.jpg" width="500" height="640" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p><span class="smcap">Fig 5.</span>—Showing method of “rubber-banding” the fingers for trouble -in the first, second and third zones.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>The growth of interest in this work is most<span class="pagenum hide" title="22"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22"></a></span><span class="pagenum" title="23"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23"></a></span> -encouraging. Dr. FitzGerald and other physicians -using zone therapy in their practice, have -had scores of letters from patients they have -never even seen, but who have written, expressing -their appreciation for the relief secured -through instructions from some of their patients, -or through following out some suggestion from -my articles in the magazines.</p> - -<p>I have reason to believe that there are now -upwards of two hundred physicians, osteopaths -and dentists, using these methods every day, -with complete satisfaction to themselves and to -their patients.</p> - -<p>And the number of laymen, and especially lay-women, -who are preaching the doctrine in their -own households, and among their circle of -friends, must be legion. The adoption of the -method is attended with absolutely no danger or -disagreeable results, and may be the means of -lengthening short lives and making good health -catching. I, for one, hope that the numbers of -those who may be inclined to learn and practice -these methods upon themselves and upon the -members of their families may ever increase and -multiply. For this is a big idea, and a helpful -one. Therefore, the more who make it their -own the better for the human race. We shall -now let Dr. FitzGerald continue the argument.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" title="24"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24"></a></span></p> - - - - -<h2>CHAPTER II. - -<span class="title">THAT ACHING HEAD.</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>The next time you have a headache, instead -of attempting to paralyze the -nerves of sensation with an opiate, or a -coal tar “pain-deadener,” push the headache out -through the top of the head. It’s surprisingly -easy.</p> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 200px;"> -<a id="Fig_6"></a> -<img src="images/i_025.jpg" width="100" height="652" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p><span class="smcap">Fig. 6.</span>—Palate-pressor Electrode may be used with or without -electricity.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>It merely requires that you press your thumb—or, -better still, some smooth, broad metal surface -(See Fig. <a href="#Fig_6">6</a>), as the end of a knife-handle—firmly -against the roof of the mouth, as nearly -as possible under the battleground—and hold it -there for from three to five minutes—by the -watch. It may be necessary, if the ache is extensive, -to shift the position of the thumb or -metal “applicator” so as to “cover” completely -the area that aches.</p> - -<p>Headaches and neuralgias, of purely nervous -origin, not due to poison from toxic absorption -from the bowels, or to constipation, or alcoholism, -tumors, eye-strain, or some specific organic -cause, usually subside under this pressure within -a few minutes.</p> - -<p>’Tis as easy as lying. Many patients cure<span class="pagenum hide" title="25"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25"></a></span><span class="pagenum" title="26"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26"></a></span> -their own or their friend’s and relative’s headaches -or neuralgic attacks in this manner. In -their own headaches they use their right or left -thumb—depending upon whether they are right -or left-handed. In treating others, they use the -first and second fingers, pressing firmly under -the seat of pain.</p> - -<p>Their “points of attack” may extend from the -roots of the front teeth—for a frontal headache—to -the junction of the hard and soft -palate—for a pain in the back of the head. Or -from the roots of the right upper molars to those -of the upper left molars, if the pain be in the -region of the temples or the side of the head.</p> - -<p>Only temporary results should be expected—or -even complete failure—if the pain is due to -costiveness, eye-strain, or some persistent organic -condition—although even here the severity of -the attack can usually be modified.</p> - -<p>In those headaches excited by dental operations -relief can almost invariably be secured. -Dr. Thomas J. Ryan of New York, and others -familiar with zone therapy (the science of relieving -pain and curing disease by pressures in -the various “zones” affected by pain or disease), -almost uniformly cure headaches or neuralgias -in their patients in this manner. In medical -practice the results are even more miraculous.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="27"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27"></a></span></p> - -<p>One of the worst cases yet treated by zone -therapy was that of a lady who had suffered -from persistent headache for more than three -years. She had been to all the most prominent -nerve specialists in the East, and had also consulted -several European experts. Her heart was -in a very dangerous condition, owing to the -amount of antipyrin and other headache powders -she had taken.</p> - -<p>Her pain was located most generally in the -forehead, and during the height of the attacks -extended up as far as the top of the head.</p> - -<p>It was not relieved by sleep—indeed, it was -worse, if anything, after such poor and inadequate -sleep as she was able to get. This fact -eliminated eye-strain as a cause, for eye-strain -headaches are almost invariably better after a -night’s rest.</p> - -<p>Every organ in the body had received a most -thorough overhauling, and still those headaches -held the fort. So the diagnoses settled down -into “pain habit.”</p> - -<p>Christian Science, magnetic healing, faith -cure, and most of the modern medical fads had -all been tried, without success. She was on the -verge of suicidal melancholia.</p> - -<p>The afternoon I first saw her she was almost -in hysteria—her pain was so acute. For when<span class="pagenum" title="28"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28"></a></span> -telephoning for her appointment she had been -told not to take any opiates—as they might -“mask the symptoms,” and confuse the diagnosis.</p> - -<p>Without stopping to question her, I washed -my hands in an antiseptic solution, placed the tips -of the first and second fingers of my right hand -close against the roots of her incisor, or front -teeth, held her head rigidly with the left hand, -and pressed firmly for two minutes. I then -moved my finger tips an inch further back on -the hard palate, and repeated the pressure for -another two minutes.</p> - -<p>Releasing her, I stepped back, much as an -artist might, in viewing a piece of work that -pleases him. That I was justified in so doing -was proved by the fact that, for the first time in -three years, except when under the complete influence -of an opiate, this lady was absolutely -free from pain.</p> - -<p>I instructed her husband, who accompanied -her, just where to make the proper pressures -when the pain returned, and within a week had a -report from him that there were now no further -attacks of the neuralgic headaches. This relief -has persisted for more than a year.</p> - -<p>Headaches frequently respond to pressures -exerted over the joints on the thumb or fingers, -or sometimes it may be necessary to “attack” it<span class="pagenum" title="29"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29"></a></span> -from the inside of the nose, or from some other -point of vantage in the zone affected.</p> - -<p>As an illustration of how pain can be squeezed -out of the head through the fingers, a typical -case, reported by Dr. George Starr White, of -Los Angeles, California, may be helpful.</p> - -<p>A lady suffered from a very severe headache -on the top of her head, which had persisted for -more than three weeks. She had consulted several -doctors, who had given her “coal tars,” -opiates, and hypodermics, but the relief was only -temporary.</p> - -<p>Dr. White told her nothing of what was contemplated, -but took hold of her hands, and began -firmly pressing on the first, second and third -fingers—the pain being diffused over the -frontal regions—at the same time engaging her -in conversation concerning her condition.</p> - -<p>After about three minutes he asked her if she -would locate with her hand just where the pain -was. She hesitated, looked up, and said, “Do -you use mental therapy?” Then, after blinking -perplexedly for half a minute, she added: “For -the first time in three weeks, except when I’ve -been under the influence of narcotics, the pain is -entirely gone.”</p> - -<p>Dr. White told her to have someone repeat -these finger pressures, at the same time emphasizing<span class="pagenum" title="30"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30"></a></span> -that if she failed to get relief from this -method to come back. He has not seen her since.</p> - -<p>But the same condition in the same patient -may not be cleared up from the same point every -time. For instance, if the pain is in the second -zone of the forehead, at one time we may stop -it by “attacking” the forefinger. The next time, -however, pressure upon that finger might not -have the slightest effect, and we would have to -go to the tongue or the roof of the mouth to get -results. Another time we might be successful -only from the nose—or by pressing the teeth of -an aluminum comb on the skull, above or below -the seat of pain—and so on.</p> - -<p>Now, physicians have for many years, been -consistently teaching our patients and the public -how not to get sick. Why not carry this teaching -to its only logical conclusion, and teach them -how, by perfectly safe and harmless means, they -may, if sick, cure themselves of their minor ailments?</p> - -<p>It would add marvelously to the sum total of -health, happiness, and economic efficiency if all -headaches, for instance, which could be cured by -zone therapy were cured and kept cured—by -spreading the knowledge of how to keep them -cured.</p> - -<p>We feel certain also that the medical profes<span class="pagenum" title="31"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31"></a></span>sion, -as soon as it is generally informed concerning -zone therapy, will eagerly welcome the -opportunity to promulgate the advantages of a -safe and harmless method of relieving headache -and pain. And also of doing away with the -necessity for longer resorting to dangerous -antipyrin or phenacetin tablets and powders. -This is a crusade worthy of their highest altruism -and noblest self-sacrifice.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" title="32"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32"></a></span></p> - - - -<h2>CHAPTER III. - -<span class="title">CURING GOITRE WITH A PROBE.</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>One of the most obstinate disorders that -afflict humanity—and one which seems -to be rapidly on the increase—is goitre. -Goitre is a general condition, in which the thyroid -gland becomes progressively enlarged, producing -an unsightly swelling low down on the -front of the neck.</p> - -<p>Associated with this swelling—whether as a -cause or as an effect no one knows for a certainty—is -a distressing state of nervousness, -apprehension, and general discomfort.</p> - -<p>Frequently the case becomes “exophthalmic” in -type, running a pulse of 150 or more to the minute, -and later developing irregularities in the -heart’s action. In this form there is also a -marked protrusion of the eye-balls, from pressure -behind the globes of the eye, due to -disturbances in the local circulation.</p> - -<p>Many causes have been assigned for goitre, -but no one knows for certain which is the correct -one. Because of its prevalence in Switzerland -and in other mountainous regions, where<span class="pagenum" title="33"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33"></a></span> -the inhabitants are obliged to depend upon water -which was originally snow for their drinking -supply, it was thought that the condition arose -as a result of the lack of lime and other mineral -salts ordinarily found in water which had been -more intimately in contact with the earth. Yet -the feeding of these mineral salts to those afflicted -with goitre made no appreciable difference -in the condition of these patients.</p> - -<p>Other observers have ascribed goitre to the -influence of the nervous tension, under which we -live in this era of break-your-neck-to-get-there-and-do-it. -Others locate the seat of this disease -in the brain itself, in the blood vessels, and in the -blood; others, who favor the so-called “mechanical -theory,” ascribe the symptoms to compression -by an enlarged thyroid gland of the nerves -and vessels in the neck, although they neglect to -tell us how the gland became enlarged, in the -first place.</p> - -<p>Many authorities claim that the trouble originates -most frequently as a result of eye strain. -They insist that the visual centres, using as they -do, one-third of all the brain energy, are overworked, -in our intensive modern life, and react -upon the body to produce the toxins of fatigue. -The thyroid body, one of whose functions it is to -secrete a product which tends to neutralize these<span class="pagenum" title="34"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34"></a></span> -toxins, works overtime on the job, and not knowing -when to quit, keeps right on working—with -the result that the system is overcharged with -thyroid extract. This thyroidism, as it is called, -ultimately produces the goitrous symptoms.</p> - -<p>Other clinicians contend that the disease is of -microbic origin—which is quite unlikely—because -when the glands have been brought to the -autopsy table and the pathological laboratory, -microbes have not been found in quantity sufficient -to cause these grave symptoms.</p> - -<p>But what interests and discourages those afflicted -most is that if the cause is known, the -successful treatment is even more unknown.</p> - -<p>Medical men have treated these conditions on -the general supposition that there was either too -much or not enough thyroid extract secreted and -discharged into the circulation by the thyroid -gland.</p> - -<p>So they gave thyroid tablets, made from the -dried and pulverized glands of sheep. If these -diminished the intensity of the symptoms, the -doctors knew that the gland was deficient in its -functioning powers, and that furnishing an additional -supply from the glands of our woolly -brothers would tend to restore the thyroid deficiency -in us.</p> - -<p>If, on the other hand, thyroid medication aggravated<span class="pagenum" title="35"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35"></a></span> -the condition, the physicians figured -that the patient already had more thyroid substance -than he knew what to do with. Hence -they administered iodine in some of its combinations—generally -as iodide of potash—in order -to bring about a more active condition of the -glandular system, and assist in the elimination -of this extra thyroid secretion.</p> - -<p>If the gland still grew, and the symptoms became -worse, there remained the alternative of -ligating or “tying off” the lobes, in order to -diminish the secreting power of the organ. Or, -more radical, yet hardly more generally effective, -an operation was made—extirpating (cutting -out) a considerable portion of the body of the -thyroid.</p> - -<p>This, as may be imagined, is a very serious -operation, and fraught with considerable danger. -Not so much from the operation itself, as from -the consequences of the operation upon the psychological -and mental condition of the patient. -Not infrequently the entire nature and disposition -of an individual may be changed by the -apparently simple procedure of removing a few -cubic inches, or less, of tissue.</p> - -<p>So, on the whole, goitre has been a bugbear—most -unsatisfactory from every angle. Yet, -with the proper application of the principles of<span class="pagenum" title="36"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36"></a></span> -zone therapy, goitre—including the most advanced -forms of exophthalmic—is one of the -many conditions we are most certain of curing.</p> - -<p>Almost from the first treatment, the feeling of -suffocation, the distressing nervous symptoms -and the pulse rate are favorably influenced. In -from two to eight months the “pop eye” and the -swollen gland are progressively reduced to normal.</p> - -<p>Up to this writing, I have had more than -thirty cases, every one of which, with two exceptions, -have been cured and discharged, or are -well on the way towards a cure. The tape measure -shows that in some of these patients the -swelling decreased three inches in as many -weeks. One very responsive case was reduced -from <span class="nowrap">14 <span class="fraction"><span class="fnum">1</span><span class="bar">/</span><span class="fden">2</span></span></span> to 13 inches in less than three days’ -treatment. The photographs accompanying this -chapter speak for themselves. (See Figures <a href="#Fig_7">7</a> -and <a href="#Fig_8">8</a>.) There is no possibility of doubting the -actual accomplishments of this method in the -face of these visual demonstrations. And, as -with all matters detailed in these pages, the -original patients and data may be seen by any -medical man who is fairly interested.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="37"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37"></a></span></p> - -<div class="figcontainer"> -<div class="figsub" style="width: 330px;"> -<a id="Fig_7"></a> -<img src="images/i_037a.jpg" width="330" height="560" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p class="tac"><span class="smcap">Fig. 7.</span></p></div> -</div> - -<div class="figsub" style="width: 330px;"> -<a id="Fig_8"></a> -<img src="images/i_037b.jpg" width="330" height="560" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p class="tac"><span class="smcap">Fig. 8.</span></p></div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="38"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38"></a></span></p> - -<div class="caption mrl10"><p><span class="smcap">Figs. 7</span> and 8.—Photographs of patient from New Hampshire, who consulted me April 1st, 1914, with well-marked -bilateral goiter of two years’ standing. Patient had had constant pressure and frequently pain over -sternum for three months, but responded quickly to distal pressures, and was agreeably surprised to learn that -the pain and discomfort would disappear for hours after pressure as depicted in illustration. Twice daily the -patient exerted pressure on the posterior wall of the epipharynx via the nostrils with a cotton-wound applicator -moistened with spirits of camphor—for its antiseptic effect merely.</p> - -<p>Patient returned to New Hampshire the first of May, after one month treatment, or fifteen visits, considerably -benefited. The growth had entirely disappeared by the middle of June. The last photograph was -taken in Hartford, July 1st. Pressure through the thumbs and index and middle fingers of both hands, -(inasmuch as only three zones on a side were involved), and pressure on the posterior walls of the epipharynx -with metal applicator alternately, which she continued at home, was the only treatment she received.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>The explanation for the non-relief of the two -cases which did not improve under treatment is -simple—and very conclusive to those familiar<span class="pagenum" title="39"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39"></a></span> -with the method and its workings. One of these -two non-benefited cases refused to carry out her -“home treatment”. The other was a patient suffering -from an uterine tumor. This produced a -pathological condition in the goitre zone. Hence -the goitre would not yield until all other conditions -influencing this zone were removed. I sent -this lady to a gynecologist and it is quite certain -that, after this tumor is removed, she will, under -appropriate treatment, entirely recover from her -goitre.</p> - -<p>Dr. Reid Kellogg and Dr. Thomas Mournighan -of Providence, R. I., Dr. George Starr -White of Los Angeles, Dr. Plank of Kansas -City, and a number of other medical men, have -reported that they have the same uniformly -favorable results in treating goitre that we have -here.</p> - -<p>Dr. Kellogg has had a dozen cases, all of -which have been, or are being, cured. It is interesting -to note that one of his cases, also, a -lady suffering from a slight erosion of the neck -of the womb, made no progress until this condition -was cleared up by proper local treatment.</p> - -<p>Dr. Mournighan has also reported on fifteen -cases—eight of which were of the exophthalmic -variety—all improving or discharged as recovered.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="40"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40"></a></span></p> - -<p>In treating goitre by zone therapy a thin probe, -(See Fig. <a href="#Fig_9">9</a>), the point of which is wrapped in -cotton dipped in a little alcohol, spirits of camphor -or camphor water (these seem to increase -the “impulse”) is passed through the nostrils to -the posterior or back wall of the pharynx. Pressure -is made in various spots “low down” on this -wall (a little practice will soon determine almost -the exact “spot” to probe), until a definite sensation -is felt in the region of the goitre. Sometimes -this is “metallic”. Or it may be a sensation -of cold, or tickling, or like an electric current, -or else a mild pain.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a id="Fig_9"></a> -<img src="images/i_040a.jpg" width="500" height="91" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p><span class="smcap">Fig. 9.</span>—Special type of nasal probe used for attacking the posterior -wall of the nasopharynx.</p></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 490px;"> -<a id="Fig_10"></a> -<img src="images/i_040b.jpg" width="490" height="133" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p><span class="smcap">Fig. 10.</span>—Dr. White’s Uni-Polar Post-Nasal Electrode for Zone -Therapy. May be used with or without electricity.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>This pressure is held for several minutes—repeated -three or four times daily. It can be -done just as well by the patient himself, if he<span class="pagenum" title="41"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41"></a></span> -has the courage to hurt himself a trifle. In addition -to the treatment on the pharyngeal wall, -pressures may be made upon the joints of the -thumb, first and second fingers, as shown in -Figures <a href="#Fig_3">3</a> and <a href="#Fig_4">4</a>. Or, if the goitre is a very -broad one, and extends over into the fourth zone, -the ring finger must also be employed. A moderately -tight rubber band, worn upon these fingers -for ten or fifteen minutes, (see Fig. <a href="#Fig_5">5</a>), -three or four times daily, will also help. Rubber -bands may also be worn with benefit upon the -toes governing the zones involved. But the -treatment must be persistent. It must be the intent -to keep the goitre zone “quieted,” never allowing -it, except during sleep, to come completely -out of the influence of the pressure. And even -during sleep in aggravated cases, moderate pressure -should be continued.</p> - -<p>I would especially emphasize the importance -of seeing that the teeth are put in a perfect condition -before attempting the cure of any case of -goitre. For there is no doubt that the evil influence -of bad teeth is not, by any means, confined -to the throat and tonsils, as many observers contend. -Indeed, I do not recall having ever seen a -goitre case in which there was not something -wrong with the teeth. I therefore make a -routine practice of sending all goitre patients<span class="pagenum" title="42"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42"></a></span> -to their dentists for a thorough overhauling of -their teeth when commencing treatment.</p> - -<p>Also, it may be interesting here to note that if -the theory of eye strain causation of goitre is -true—and it seems quite likely that, in many -cases, it may be—pressure therapy may logically -be looked for to give satisfactory results. -For the effects of eye strain can undoubtedly be -relieved by pressure exerted on the first and second -fingers, as we shall show in the next chapter.</p> - -<p>So one of the most puzzling and unsatisfactory -conditions with which physicians have had -to deal can now be said to be almost invariably -curable. And the only instruments we need to -operate these grave conditions are a straight steel -probe, a few rubber bands, and the patient’s fingers.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" title="43"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43"></a></span></p> - - - - -<h2>CHAPTER IV. - -<span class="title">FINGER SQUEEZING FOR EYE TROUBLES.</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>If your eyes pain, close them lightly—or -leave them open, if you prefer—and -squeeze tightly the knuckles of the first (or -index) fingers of both hands. Occasionally, if -the eyes are set far apart and extend over into -the third zone, the second (or middle) finger -must be included in this digital embrace. But as -a general rule pressure on the upper and lower -surfaces, as well as on the sides of the first and -second fingers will, within five minutes, relieve -the pain of eye strain. Understand, I say “relieve”, -not “cure”. For if the eye strain is the -result of a too constant attendance at “movie” -shows, and due to the fact that the little eye -muscles are expanding and contracting hundreds -of times a minute in an attempt to “focus” upon -the flickering screen, the only cure for this strain -is to “cut out” these entertainments, or else patronize -a movie house where the flicker has been -“cut out.” Of course, if the eye strain is the -result of imbalance of the muscles of the eye it -will be necessary to properly adjust this faulty<span class="pagenum" title="44"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44"></a></span> -focus by reinforcing the lens of the eye with a -supplementary one made of glass.</p> - -<p>But for temporary relief firm pressure over -the joints of the first and second fingers, continued -for several minutes, will usually give -results.</p> - -<p>Eye strain and muscle tire are largely under -the control of the nervous system. If the nerves -are fatigued, the muscles function imperfectly. -If the muscles are wearied the nerves sympathize, -and make the fact known by raising a -wail of distress.</p> - -<p>And so it follows that a skeptic is legitimately -entitled to say “Yes, you zone therapists cure -eye strain by squeezing fingers or toes, but as -the condition is primarily a nervous one, you -really cure it by suggestion.”</p> - -<p>This, notwithstanding the fact that frequently -the patient has no idea as to what is being attempted, -and doesn’t, until his pain is relieved, -know why any one should want to squeeze his -fingers.</p> - -<p>Also, I would urgently recommend any believer -in the “suggestion” or “mental” response -of eye pains to omit pressures over the first and -second fingers to try and help this condition by -squeezing the thumb and little finger, and see -what they accomplish.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="45"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45"></a></span></p> - -<p>However, accepting the extreme position of -some of our friends, and admitting that all eye -strain is imagination—or an error of the mind—I -would ask them to consider the pert, prominent, -and resolutely determined stye—which is -certainly not imaginary, nor merely suggested. -Also inflammatory conditions of the conjunctiva—the -membrane of the eye and lids—and that -irritating and extremely annoying affliction -known as granulated lids.</p> - -<p>It might be considered a crucial test of imagination -to dissipate and clear up these conditions, -yet zone therapy does just this. For sties -and such eye conditions as conjunctivitis and -granulated lids are completely relieved by pressure -exerted upon the joints of the first and -second finger of the hand corresponding to the -eye involved. In sties the relief is frequently -complete in one or two treatments. In other inflammatory -conditions of the mucous membranes -of the eye it may be necessary to give -treatments three times a week for several weeks. -Also, a bandage fastened around the index -fingers, and soaked with camphor water, frequently -relieves itching and congestion of the -eyes.</p> - -<p>Favorable results are almost routine in these -troubles, and usually without employing any<span class="pagenum" title="46"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46"></a></span> -other measures. For facilitating treatment, -however—unless the results of the exclusive use -of zone therapy are desired for experimental -reasons,—it might be well to use hot boric acid -compresses, or other indicated measures, in addition -to the pressures.</p> - -<p>To go still farther I might state a fact that -every doctor will immediately admit. And this -is, that inflammation of the optic nerve—optic -neuritis—is most decidedly not imaginary, nor -is it, so far as I know, cured by telling the patient -that there is nothing the matter with him. As a -usual thing, whether treated or not, one afflicted -with optic neuritis goes on to complete blindness.</p> - -<p>Yet we have cured optic neuritis by making -pressures over the first and second fingers, and -over the inferior dental nerve—where it enters -the lower jaw bone.</p> - -<p>One patient I have in mind, who had been -treated without benefit by several competent -medical men, using conventional and accepted -methods, received no other form of treatment—no -local applications, no antiseptics. Yet relief -followed almost immediately after the pressures -were made. The woman was treated twice the -first day. That night she slept without taking -an opiate—something she had not done before in -several weeks.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="47"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47"></a></span></p> - -<p>A complete cure of her condition was brought -about within a week, and now, after the expiration -of six months, there has been no return of -her symptoms.</p> - -<p>For the benefit of physician readers I should -like to add that in treating eye strain, conjunctivitis, -sties, granulated lids, and eye conditions -generally, pressures made with a blunt probe, -(see E Fig. <a href="#Fig_11">11</a>) on the muco-cutaneous margins -(where the skin joins the mucous membrane in -the nostrils) affects the second division of the -ophthalmic nerve, and assists materially in bringing -about a favorable influence in eye troubles.</p> - -<p>I would also emphasize the importance of seeing -that the condition of the eye teeth was perfect, -as frequently some chronic inflammatory -eye trouble may be caused by an infection from -the roots of the canine teeth.</p> - -<p>In order permanently to cure anything its -cause must be removed. And it stands to reason -that if a patient persists in poisoning himself -with coffee, tobacco, or alcohol; or suffers from -an impoverished condition of the blood, or from -a brain tumor, lead poisoning, or an injury, or -has some constitutional or organic disease or -some spinal lesion, which is the basis for his eye -trouble, permanent relief will not follow unless -these causes are removed or corrected.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="48"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48"></a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 465px;"> -<a id="Fig_11"></a><img src="images/i_048.jpg" width="465" height="469" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p class="tac"><b>Non-Electrical Applicators Useful in Zone Therapy</b></p> - -<p><i><b>A</b></i> is an ordinary surgical clamp which can be used for clamping -the tongue.</p> - -<p><i><b>B</b></i> is an ordinary eye-muscle retractor. This can be used for -intermittently retracting the posterior pillars of the fauces.</p> - -<p><i><b>C</b></i> is a special type of nasal probe used for attacking the posterior -wall of the nasopharynx.</p> - -<p><i><b>D</b></i> is a regular palpebral retractor which can be used for intermittently -retracting the soft palate, especially in the region of the -fossa of Rosenmüller.</p> - -<p><i><b>E</b></i> is a regular flat applicator bent up at one end. This is useful -about the throat and fauces. It can be used as a pressure applicator -for the posterior wall of the oropharynx.</p> - -<p><i><b>F</b></i> is an ordinary aluminum comb used for attacking the fingers -or toes either at the tips or about the joints.</p> - -<p class="tac"><span class="smcap">Fig. 11.</span></p></div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="49"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49"></a></span></p> - -<p>But if he has a condition due to an excess of -nerve or muscle tension, or if he has trouble produced -by faulty circulation from any cause, -squeezing his fingers will come nearer to curing -him—and more expeditiously and satisfactorily—than -any other treatment. If you don’t believe -it, try it. It costs nothing but a few minutes’ -intelligent effort.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" title="50"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50"></a></span></p> - - - - -<h2>CHAPTER V. - -<span class="title">MAKING THE DEAF HEAR.</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>Too much knowledge is a dangerous -thing. For it keeps one thus afflicted -from acquiring more.</p> - -<p>Of course it seems outlandish and quite beyond -the pale of reason, to ask a man who can -minutely describe the semi-circular canals of the -ear, or bound the internal labyrinth on the north, -south, east and west, to believe that by pressing -with a blunt probe behind the wisdom tooth, or -at the angle of the jaw on the upper surface, the -hearing of the adjacent ear can be materially -benefited. Or that a similar result would follow -squeezing upon the joints of the ring finger, or -the toe corresponding to the ring finger. And -this, after every other scientifically accredited -method, administered by the world’s greatest -specialists, had failed. Yet such is the fact. -For it is the experience of physicians, familiar -with the practice and principles of zone therapy, -that nine out of ten cases of otosclerosis (thickening -or chronic congestion of the membranes -of the ear) can be improved from 25% to 90%.<span class="pagenum" title="51"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51"></a></span> -And, that ringing in the ears and “ear noises,” -or catarrhal deafness, can be relieved in an even -larger number of cases. If there is any hearing -left at all, these methods are almost certain to -improve it.</p> - -<p>General practitioners, osteopaths and dentists, -who do not know so much about the geography -of the ear as does the ear specialist, have no -hesitation in “trying out” these methods, frequently -with astonishing results.</p> - -<p>One dentist of my acquaintance, whose knowledge -of the ear is merely academic, has cured or -materially improved the hearing of more than -twenty of his patients. This he did by instructing -them to tuck a “wad” of absorbent lint, or a -handkerchief, in the space between the last tooth -and the angle of the jaw, and “bite down hard” -upon this substance for several minutes, repeating -this procedure two or three times daily.</p> - -<p>Some medical men cause these patients to -“work” on the ring finger on the side involved, -and do almost as well.</p> - -<p>It may better serve our purposes, by way of -illustration, were I to cite a few specific cases, -and detail their exact manner of treatment. It -may then be easier to put the teaching into practical -application, following exactly the treatment -as outlined.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="52"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52"></a></span></p> - -<p>A lady, the wife of an ear specialist, was recently -brought to me for deafness. The doctor, -having tried unsuccessfully every accredited -method, was constrained to “see what zone -therapy would do.”</p> - -<p>For thirty years this patient had heard nothing -with the right ear, and very little with the left. -I stimulated, with a stiff, curved cotton-tipped -probe (instrument shown in Fig. <a href="#Fig_6">6</a> may be used), -the area lying between the last tooth and the -angle of the jaw—carefully “covering” all the -gum surfaces—sides as well as biting surfaces.</p> - -<p>In addition, I hooked an instrument behind the -soft palate (see D, Fig. <a href="#Fig_11">11</a>), and “stretched” it -gently forward. This, I have found, powerfully -stimulates the circulation of the “ear zones,” and -is most helpful—particularly in catarrhal deafness. -After two treatments this patient could -hear a small tuning fork one-half inch away -from the right ear, and one inch from the left. -After a few more treatments, her hearing so -wonderfully improved that she could hear a -whisper with the right ear. This after being -“stone deaf” in that ear for thirty years, and -after having visited “all the noted aurists in this -country and abroad.”</p> - -<p>A young soprano, member of a leading Hartford -church choir, suffered a progressive loss in<span class="pagenum" title="53"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53"></a></span> -hearing, which finally became so pronounced as -to make it almost impossible for her to “sing on -the pitch,” or harmonize with either the organ -or the other quartette members.</p> - -<p>She received treatment similar to that employed -on the aurist’s wife, supplementing the -same by “home treatment.” This consisted in -“tucking” a wad of surgeon’s gauze (it has since -been discovered that a solid rubber eraser gives -even better results) in the space back of the -wisdom tooth, and having her bite forcibly upon -it, repeating the procedure several times daily—especially -immediately before singing or rehearsing. -In a few weeks this girl had completely -recovered her hearing, and was able to -accept an engagement with a traveling concert -company, a position very much more remunerative -than the church position she resigned.</p> - -<p>I have had to date possibly fifty cases of deafness -of one kind or another, almost all of which -have been materially helped.</p> - -<p>One patient, a minister afflicted with otosclerosis -(this supposed thickening of the membranes -of the inner ear) for twenty-five years, -could barely hear loud talking.</p> - -<p>After working for five minutes upon the -joints of the third (ring) finger, and to a lesser -degree, upon its two neighbors, it was found that<span class="pagenum" title="54"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54"></a></span> -the reverend gentleman could hear a whisper -twenty feet away.</p> - -<p>As proof of this it was whispered to him “Will -you kindly close the window above your head?” -He rose immediately from his chair, and -“obliged.”</p> - -<p>A New York physician had a relative who had -been unsuccessfully treated for deafness in one -ear (the right) for the past sixteen years, by the -most famous aurists in New York, London, -Paris, Berlin, Dresden, Vienna, and other centers -of medical learning. X-Ray treatment had -at one time made this case at least twenty-five -per cent worse. With the left ear this patient -could hear a loud voice “close up.”</p> - -<p>Dr. Reid Kellogg volunteered to “show the -Doctor something,” using this case for demonstration -purposes.</p> - -<p>The Doctor, like Barkis, being willin’, our -friend took his trusty aluminum comb from his -pocket and exerted pressure for five minutes -with the teeth of the comb on the finger tips of -the patient’s left hand, (see Fig. <a href="#Fig_12">12</a>). He then -used a tongue depressor on the hard palate, and -on the floor of the mouth, for six or seven -minutes more, and then on the tongue for an -additional five.</p> - -<p>The Doctor then stood ten feet away from his<span class="pagenum" title="55"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55"></a></span> -relative and talked to him in an ordinary tone of -voice. The patient distinctly heard, with the -left ear, every word spoken.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a id="Fig_12"></a> -<img src="images/i_055.jpg" width="500" height="387" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p><span class="smcap">Fig. 12.</span>—This illustrates one method of treating the bones and deep -seated conditions generally. Pressure on the tips of the fingers influences -both anterior and posterior aspects of second, third, fourth and fifth zones.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>Our pupil then started to work on the other -hand. The patient insisted that this was merely -a waste of time, as the “biggest” ear specialists -in Europe had failed upon this. However, the -attempt was made, and within ten minutes the -patient heard a clock a foot away, a watch held -three inches distant from his ear, and he further<span class="pagenum" title="56"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56"></a></span> -was able to repeat words spoken loudly two feet -away. During the experiments with his right -ear, the left was tightly plugged with cotton, -still further wedged in the canal by the physician’s -finger. So this was a rather conclusive -test.</p> - -<p>A lady, aged forty-nine, deaf since she was -six years old, came to the office of a specialist -who had studied zone therapy. When the physician -applied a comb to one hand, she put the -other to one side of her lips—the side the doctor -was on—and whispered to her friend “Crank.” -Twenty minutes later, being then able to hear -ordinary conversation, she whispered again. -This time she said “Wizard.” A few days later -she asked a friend riding with her in a street -car if the bell always rang when the conductor -pulled the strap. She was hearing it for the first -time in her life.</p> - -<p>One lady came to this doctor with her husband. -They were both deaf. But the baby in -her arms was not deaf—and most decidedly was -not dumb either. In less than a fortnight’s treatment -both parents could hear the baby cry every -night, which was a great satisfaction to them—in -one way. But they don’t know yet whether -to laugh or cry about it.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="57"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57"></a></span></p> - -<p>Dr. Thomas Mournighan has given me the -details of two remarkable cases, one a veteran -of sixty-eight, who, since the Civil War, has -been deaf from gun concussion. This man had -never heard through the telephone, the perfection -and general use of which dates since the war.</p> - -<p>After making pressure with a probe (applicator -shown in Fig. <a href="#Fig_6">6</a> may be used) on the gum -margins near the angle of the jaw this gentleman -was able to hear through a ’phone—the first -time he had ever experienced this pleasure. That -it was a pleasure was evidenced by the fact that -the old soldier danced around the office in a perfect -transport of glee.</p> - -<p>The Doctor’s own father, whose condition was -similar to that of the other patient, also developed -a very material increase in his ability to -hear.</p> - -<p>It is but fair to say, however, that the patient’s -“home treatments” must be persistent in order to -maintain this improvement. If these treatments -are discontinued for any appreciable length of -time the condition seems to relapse. We are not -yet prepared to say why this should be so.</p> - -<p>I would emphasize also that, in ear trouble, the -condition of wisdom teeth be carefully looked -after. For, I am convinced, many cases of loss<span class="pagenum" title="58"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58"></a></span> -of hearing, or middle ear trouble, have their -origin in some pathological condition of these -teeth.</p> - -<p>It may be of interest here to note also that one -of the most effective ear-ache cures we possess -is a spring clothespin fastened for five minutes -or thereabouts on the tip of the ring finger. (See -Fig. <a href="#Fig_13">13</a>.) Any manipulation over this zone is -effective, but hollowed-out spring clothespins and -rubber bands have been particularly so.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a id="Fig_13"></a> -<img src="images/i_059.jpg" width="500" height="640" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p><span class="smcap">Fig. 13.</span>—Showing method of applying hollowed out spring -clothespins for the relief of pain and to desensitize the teeth for dental operations.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>To illustrate: During a recent medical convention -in the West one of the physicians attending -complained of a severe ear-ache. A -physician present, well versed in zone therapy, -requested permission to examine the ear-ache -doctor’s fingers, alleging that by pressing intermittently -on the finger nails, he could estimate -the degree of blood pressure, and perhaps suggest -a course of treatment which might permanently -cure the ear trouble—if not caused by an -abscess.</p> - -<p>The doctor extended the hand on the side of -the afflicted ear.</p> - -<p>The zone therapy man squeezed the tip of the -fourth finger, raised the finger nail, and let it -settle back a dozen or more times, “to see how the -circulation reacted,” as he said. After three or<span class="pagenum hide" title="59"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59"></a></span><span class="pagenum" title="60"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60"></a></span> -four minutes he said “By the way, Doctor, which -ear did you say is giving you the trouble?”</p> - -<p>The Doctor looked up in blank amazement, felt -his ears, shook his head, and said, “You don’t -mean to say that that darned foolishness cured -my ear-ache, do you?”</p> - -<p>It does seem silly, and yet it “works.” And -anything that works is beneficent and helpful, -and deserves encouragement. For deafness and -ear troubles are common, and seem to be becoming -more so.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" title="61"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61"></a></span></p> - - - - -<h2>CHAPTER 6. - -<span class="title">PAINLESS CHILDBIRTH.</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>Any method, no matter how improbable-seeming -it may be, calculated to render -labor or operations upon women less of -an ordeal, is worthy of consideration by physicians, -midwives, and the laity. Therefore there -may be something well worth “trying out” in the -“pressure” method of inducing relief from pain.</p> - -<p>A number of physicians have reported results -that, if confirmed by further experiences, warrant -us in believing that zone pressure promises -to be a boon to womankind.</p> - -<p>To those who have had experience with pressure -analgesia in dentistry, and in the relief of -rheumatism, lumbago, neuralgia, and other painful -affections, mitigating—or even entirely relieving—the -pains of childbirth seem quite within -the bounds of possibility. In any event, it will -not be difficult to put it to a broad conclusive test. -And it is absolutely harmless, there is no danger -to mother or child in its employment, and no indication -that it might be responsible for a “blue -baby.” For in almost every case in which it has<span class="pagenum" title="62"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62"></a></span> -been tried, labor has been accelerated six hours -or more—instead of retarded.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a id="Fig_14"></a> -<img src="images/i_063.jpg" width="500" height="635" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p><span class="smcap">Fig. 14.</span>—This shows method of treating lumbago and pains in the -back of the body, affecting all the zones.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>The methods are so simple that they can be -utilized by any one—even by women who may, -in their hour of labor, chance to be remote from -medical attention. Two combs (broad aluminum -combs about four inches in length have been -found to be the best) to clench the fingers and -thumbs over (see Fig. <a href="#Fig_14">14</a>), and some sharp or -edged surface to press the soles of the feet -against (see Fig. <a href="#Fig_15">15</a>), are all the instruments -that are required, altho a clamp has now been -devised (see Fig. <a href="#Fig_16">16</a>) which can be fastened on -the hands to include both surfaces and all zones. -It is applied when contractions begin, and is kept -in position intermittently until delivery is completed. -Rubber bands, bound around the great -and “index” toes, also afford a gratifying help.</p> - -<p>To relieve the after-pains and facilitate the -expulsion of the afterbirth, it has been found that -“stimulating” strokes, with the teeth of the -aluminum comb, or the “bristles” of a wire hair -brush, are most effective. It may require that -these strokes be given from ten minutes to one-half -hour. But they assist wonderfully in contracting -the uterus.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum hide" title="63"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63"></a></span></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="64"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64"></a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> -<a id="Fig_15"></a> -<img src="images/i_064.jpg" width="200" height="622" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p class="tac"><b>Valens Disc Zone-Analgesic with Rope Attachment</b></p> - -<p>An extension rope can be used on these applicators and -attached to the foot of the bed so a patient, during confinement, can -grasp one applicator in each hand and make traction.</p> - -<p>This device can also be used in Zone Therapy for Sciatica by -having the patient place the foot over the wooden discs and “hang on to -the rope” with the hand.</p> - -<p class="tac"><span class="smcap">Fig. 15.</span></p></div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="65"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65"></a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a id="Fig_16"></a> -<img src="images/i_065.jpg" width="500" height="636" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p><span class="smcap">Fig. 16.</span>—This is the hand clamp used with such extraordinary success -in relieving the pains of childbirth.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>Dr. R. T. H. Nesbitt, of Waukegan, Ill., is -one of a number of physicians who have had<span class="pagenum" title="66"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66"></a></span> -practical experience with pressure analgesia in -childbirth. He sends this very interesting report:</p> - -<p>“During the past week I have been attending -the lectures of Dr. George Starr White. In this -most interesting and helpful series, Dr. White -explained and exemplified biodynamic diagnosis -by means of the magnetic meridian (a remarkable -discovery of Dr. White, which enables one -to diagnose diseases otherwise undiagnosible. -This by means of changes in the “tension” of -organs—which occurs when a properly grounded -patient is turned from North or South to East -or West). Dr. White also demonstrated zone -therapy. He asked if any of the doctors present -expected a confinement case soon. If so, he -wished to give them some suggestions in zone -anesthesia in connection with delivery.</p> - -<p>“As I was expecting a ‘call’ every hour I told -Dr. White, and he gave me some special points -concerning this work. Last night I was called -to attend what I expected would be my last case -in confinement, as I have been doing this work -so many years that I intended to retire. From -my last night’s experience I feel as if I should -like to start the practice of medicine all over -again.</p> - -<p>“The woman I delivered was a primipara<span class="pagenum" title="67"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67"></a></span> -(one who had never had a child before, and who -therefore, because of the rigidity of the bones -and tissues, has a more difficult labor), small in -stature.</p> - -<p>“When severe contractions began, and the -mother was beginning to be very nervous and -complained of pain, at which time I generally -administer chloroform, I began pressing on the -soles of the feet with the edge of a big file, as I -could find nothing else. I pressed on the top of -the foot with the thumbs of both hands at the -metatarsal-phalangeal joint, (where the toes -join the foot). I exerted this pressure over each -foot for about three minutes at a time. The -mother told me that the pressure on the feet -gave her no pain whatsoever.</p> - -<p>“As she did not have any uterine pain, I was -afraid there was no advancement. To my great -surprise, when I examined her about ten or -fifteen minutes later, I found the head within -two inches of the outlet. I then waited about -fifteen minutes, and on examination found the -head at the vulva. I then pressed again for -about one or two minutes on each foot, the edge -of the file being on the sole of the foot, and my -thumbs over the tarsal-metatarsal joints as before. -In this way I exerted pressure on the sole -of the foot with the file, and pressure on the<span class="pagenum" title="68"><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68"></a></span> -dorsum of the foot with my thumbs, doing each -foot separately. The last pressure lasted about -one and a half minutes to each foot. Within -five or ten minutes the head was appearing, and -I held it back to preserve the perineum (the -tissue joining the vagina and the rectum). It -made steady progress, the head and shoulders -coming out in a normal manner. Within three -minutes the child—which “weighed in” at 9 1/2 -pounds—was born, crying lustily. The mother -told me she did not experience any pain whatever, -and could not believe the child was born. -She laughed and said, ‘This is not so bad.’</p> - -<p>“Another point that is very remarkable is that -after the child was born, the woman did not experience -the fatigue that is generally felt, and -the child was more active than usual. I account -for this on the principle that pain inhibits (prevents) -progress of the birth, and tires the child. -But as the pain was inhibited, the progress was -more steady, and thus fatigue to both mother -and child was avoided.”</p> - -<p>A Massachusetts doctor supplements this case -with several others—equally ridiculous or revolutionary—depending -upon our viewpoint. To insure -brevity and accuracy I quote the Doctor’s -own words.</p> - -<p>“Case 1. Multipara (a woman who has had<span class="pagenum" title="69"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69"></a></span> -previous confinements)—mother of four. Shortest -previous labor eight hours. Had had a -laceration of cervix (neck of the womb) with -her first child. Also one forceps delivery.</p> - -<p>“When labor commenced she was given two -aluminum combs to hold (as shown in Fig. <a href="#Fig_14">14</a>), -and instructed to make strong pressure upon -them, with a view of inhibiting pains, particularly -in the first, second and third zones. These -combs were four inches in length and slightly -roughened on the ends, so that the lateral (or -side) surfaces of the thumbs could more effectively -be stimulated.</p> - -<p>“Was called at four a.m., arrived at 5:05, and -the babe had just been born. The patient reported -that she had been in bed for only 15 -minutes. There had been only one severe pain. -This was when the head delivered.</p> - -<p>“There was no exhaustion following, as with -her previous labors, and she said laughingly, ‘I -believe I’ll be able to get up this afternoon. -Doctor.’</p> - -<p>“The afterbirth delivery seemed to be stimulated, -and the pains controlled by stroking the -backs of the hands with the teeth of the combs. -She became relaxed and drowsy from this -stroking, and finally fell asleep and slept almost -through the night—perfectly free from pain.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum" title="70"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70"></a></span></p> -<p>“Case 2. Primipara, thirty-seven years old. -This woman had a badly retroflexed uterus (a -womb which is tilted back), which seemed to retard -the advancement of labor, for she required -five hours for delivery.</p> - -<p>“She also used the comb pressures, and, in addition, -was provided with a rough-edged shallow -box, upon which she pressed firmly with the -soles of her feet.</p> - -<p>“Four hours after delivery she had sharp -afterbirth pains, which were controlled by the -stroking method before described. This seemed -to give complete and satisfactory relaxation.</p> - -<p>“There were three other cases, all of which -responded equally well to treatment by zone -analgesia.</p> - -<p>“It should be added that, while the pain was -inhibited, there seemed to be no diminution in -the strength of the uterine contractions.”</p> - -<p>Dr. Thomas Mournighan, of Providence, R. -I., has been, for more than two years, one of the -staunchest advocates of my methods. He has -had phenomenally successful experiences in -goiter, deafness, female irregularities, and in the -relief of pain and cure of conditions in the general -practice of medicine.</p> - -<p>Dr. Mournighan has also had almost uniformly<span class="pagenum" title="71"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71"></a></span> -successful results with zone analgesia in -childbirth. I quote from a few of his cases.</p> - -<p>“Case 1. Primipara, nineteen years of age. -Suffered from furious attacks of vomiting at the -beginning of her pregnancy. Her family physician -wanted to abort her, fearing for her life, -unless the attacks were checked.</p> - -<p>“She finally came under my care. I instructed -her to bite her tongue as hard as she could, -about one-third the distance from the tip—thus, -as you see, ‘attacking’ the entire zone connection. -This procedure controlled the vomiting almost -immediately, and instead of becoming accustomed -to it, thereby losing its beneficial effect, -she became, if anything, even more susceptible -to its influence.</p> - -<p>“When she came to term I placed a rough-edged -box in the bed, for her to press the soles -of her feet on. I also provided her with a sheet, -tied to the bed post, which she gripped and pulled -upon during pains. This, I feel certain, helps -pain relief by zone analgesia—as well as by -assisting in the mechanics of labor. She made -traction upon the sheets and pressed her feet on -the box as the condition seemed to require, and, -as she expressed it, ‘got great comfort from it.’</p> - -<p>“When the second stage of labor came on—that<span class="pagenum" title="72"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72"></a></span> -stage where I generally resort to chloroform—I -made strong pressure over the feet, sinking -my thumbs well in over the articulation of the -toe and foot joint. She was delivered in less -than five hours. The afterbirth came away without -the slightest pain. I was peculiarly struck -by the almost complete absence of labor exhaustion.”</p> - -<p>“Case 2. Mother aged forty, ninth child. She -had had ‘the devil’s own time’ with the last three -or four, the attendant having been compelled to -use forceps in these births. With her last child -she had had a bad laceration of the cervix, -which, however, had been skillfully repaired.</p> - -<p>“I gave her two aluminum combs, the edges -of which I had nicked with a file, so as to -roughen them for the thumb to press over. -There being no box handy I covered a coal -shovel with a towel, and, when the pains became -severe, let her press the soles of her feet -against the sharp edge of this.</p> - -<p>“Within 3 hours she was delivered—without -forceps this time—of a <span class="nowrap">10 <span class="fraction"><span class="fnum">1</span><span class="bar">/</span><span class="fden">2</span></span></span> pound boy—as clean -a delivery as I ever saw.</p> - -<p>“I know it seems crazy, but any method that -will, practically without pain, stimulate women -who were formerly in labor for from twelve to -fifteen hours to complete delivery—in many instances<span class="pagenum" title="73"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73"></a></span> -within three hours—is a good method. -I shall continue its use, no matter how foolish -it may appear.”</p> - -<p>Another physician, who has had a large and -successful experience with zone therapy, writes:</p> - -<p>“In obstetrics I have almost completely discarded -chloroform at the close of the second -stage, where I used to almost always use it. In -the first stage, zone therapy relieves the nagging -pains without retarding, but rather promoting -dilatation. In the second stage delivery is -hastened. Women seem so quiet and easy one -would think ‘there was nothing doing,’ until on -examination, you are surprised to see what has -been accomplished. For this work I use a serrated -strip of aluminum 1/16 in. thick, imbedded -in a piece of wood of convenient size, or else I -use a seven inch aluminum comb, pressing the -teeth against the inner part of the sole of the -foot, or near the ball, alternating from one foot -to the other. When I have an assistant both -feet are manipulated at a time, and that aids -very materially. I exert as much pressure as -the patient can bear without pain. When I have -an assistant well trained I am going to try zone -therapy for instrumental delivery.”</p> - -<p>In connection with the subject of confinement -and operations upon women this report from<span class="pagenum" title="74"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74"></a></span> -Dr. G. Murray Edwards, of Denver, Colorado, -is of peculiar interest:</p> - -<p>“Mrs. McK., age 35; pregnant four and a -half months; multipara. Placenta praevia (a -grave condition, in which the afterbirth precedes -the child in delivery), aborted Dec. 5, 1915, curettement -(scraping out of the uterus), Dec. 7, -1915. Temperature 99, pulse 80. This case occurring -during Dr. White’s lecture course in -Denver, when Dr. Fitzgerald’s pressure method -of analgesia was being discussed, I decided to -try it out for the first time on this patient. She -being a very nervous woman, I felt a little reluctant -in the experiment. I did not tell her, -however, I was going to use a new method, but -quietly placed three elastics, an eighth of an -inch wide, on each foot, one around the large -toe at the first joint, and one around the others -similarly in pairs.</p> - -<p>“After fifteen minutes, preparing my instruments -in the meantime, I told her we were ready, -and while we did not intend to use chloroform, -instructed her carefully to tell me immediately -if she felt any pain whatsoever. The curettement -was conducted in every detail as though she -were under general anesthesia, and as I questioned -her frequently as to pain, she always came -back with a smile and a negative reply.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum" title="75"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75"></a></span></p> -<p>“We removed fully a teacupful of placental -tissue in about ten minutes, while the patient -passed the time joking, and when finished assured -me she felt much better than when we -started, as she was nervous looking forward to -the anesthetic. This I consider a typical case, -and have no misgivings as to its working generally.”</p> - -<p>In similar strain scores of letters tell of the -successes attending the employment of this -method in labor, and in operations upon women.</p> - -<p>Now, I do not contend that a few score, or a -few hundred swallows make a summer, but their -presence undoubtedly indicates that summer -may be well on the way.</p> - -<p>All this may sound foolish in the extreme. -Yet there are many other things equally foolish -in the practice of medicine. And if zone -analgesia will do what we claim for it, it may -well be taken gently by the hand, lifted out of -the foolish class, and placed among the ultra-sensible -procedures—where, by right, it belongs.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" title="76"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76"></a></span></p> - - - - -<h2>CHAPTER 7. - -<span class="title">ZONE THERAPY FOR WOMEN.</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>In the eternal fitness of things there would -be something radically wrong if zone -therapy did not offer some especial and -particular help to women. It is a satisfaction to -state that the eternal fitness of things is right, -as usual. For zone therapy is as unique in this -connection as in most of its other applications.</p> - -<p>Many of the things it does are positively -startling. And yet they become commonplace, -after one has been in the work for a time. One -of the most striking cases that has yet come to -my attention came in the form of a letter of -thanks from a mother of a young girl. I never -saw either. The mother, however, wrote me -that her daughter, who had not menstruated in -ten months, was, some time ago, instructed by -a patient of mine to take the broad handle of a -tablespoon and make strong pressure upon the -tongue (a tongue depressor shown in Fig. <a href="#Fig_17">17</a> -would be more appropriate), as far back as she -could stand it without gagging.</p> - -<p>She did so, and within five minutes was menstruating<span class="pagenum" title="77"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77"></a></span> -profusely, yet without the slightest -pain or discomfort. In the several months -which had since intervened, she “came around” -regularly every twenty-eight days. The mother -who feared that her daughter was going into a -decline, could not refrain from writing me a -most heartfull letter of appreciation for what my -patient, through my instruction, had been able to -do for her daughter. I call this good preventive -medicine.</p> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 300px;"> -<a id="Fig_17"></a> -<img src="images/i_077.jpg" width="300" height="348" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p><span class="smcap">Fig. 17.</span> Tongue-pressor Electrode. May be used with or without -electricity.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>Painful menstruation (dysmenorrhoea), also -yields like magic to the potent pressure of a<span class="pagenum" title="78"><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78"></a></span> -probe applied to the posterior (back) wall of the -pharynx. But the tongue pressures are, in the -majority of cases, quite as effective. For pain -in the back or thighs, preceding or during menstruation, -pressure with the tip of the index -finger on the posterior wall of the pharynx on -the median line and to the right and left of same, -will almost uniformly give relief.</p> - -<p>A broad, rough-surfaced tongue depressor -(see Fig. <a href="#Fig_17">17</a>) is best for the purpose. But if this -is not available, the handle of a large spoon or -the handle of a tooth brush may be used.</p> - -<p>This should be applied to the tongue three-quarters -of the way back and on the median line. -The patient’s head should be held rigid, and the -lower jaw supported, to the end that stronger -pressure can be made. It is well to have the -physician or some male member of the family -officiate in this, as the patient may not be inclined -to use the requisite amount of force.</p> - -<p>The pressure should be held firmly for two -minutes. Then it should be relaxed and the point -of focus changed slightly. Or the instrument -may be turned or rotated from side to side, at -one minute intervals.</p> - -<p>Many patients who are obliged to go to bed -for two or three days each month, after a course -of this treatment, are completely relieved of all<span class="pagenum" title="79"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79"></a></span> -distress. Indeed, some of these hardly knew -they were “coming sick.”</p> - -<p>It might be added that pressure exerted on the -thumb, first and second fingers of both hands -helps materially in this work. And one of the -most comforting factors in the practice is that -patients are usually quite as well the next morning -as they are even directly after the most successful -treatment.</p> - -<p>Occasionally the use of the metal comb on the -back of the hand, “combing” thoroly the region -of the thumb, first and second fingers as far as -to the wrists—has given best results. But the -tongue pressures are most uniformly successful.</p> - -<p>While I have seldom heard of a miscarriage -being induced by these pressures, yet I believe a -note of warning should be sounded, cautioning -against the use of the tongue pressures, particularly -during the early months of pregnancy.</p> - -<p>For it is quite conceivable that abortion might -follow drastic tongue treatment. It would be -far better during these months to depend upon -the finger pressures or the comb for treatment of -these zones.</p> - -<p>Also, if there is a too-profuse and too-frequent -menstruation, severe tongue pressures should be -avoided. In these conditions gentle stroking on -the backs of the hands with a wire hair brush<span class="pagenum" title="80"><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80"></a></span> -or the teeth of the metal comb has given best -results. And this same procedure may be confidently -resorted to to prevent threatened abortion.</p> - -<p>While not confined to women, yet women are -by far more generally afflicted with constipation -and hemorrhoids than are men. Their sedentary -habits, tight lacing, and repugnance to water -drinking make them peculiarly susceptible to the -costive habit—which in turn, through engorgement -of the hemorrhoidal veins, causes piles.</p> - -<p>I mention these subjects here because the treatment -for constipation and hemorrhoids is identical -with that given for painful or suppressed -menstruation.</p> - -<p>The results in constipation are, in some instances, -absolutely astonishing. I know of one -woman, constipated for fifteen years, who never -knew what it meant to have a natural movement -of the bowels. She grasped the chair seat with -the tips of her fingers and thumbs, putting all -her strength into this grip—so as partly to -desensitize the pain of tongue pressure, and -thereby be able to stand a more drastic treatment. -Then the tongue was firmly pressed for nine -minutes in the manner before described.</p> - -<p>Her bowels moved within fifteen minutes<span class="pagenum" title="81"><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81"></a></span> -afterwards, and for a year or longer she has -never had to take another cathartic. Another -case was cleared up two years ago, and has had -no return of the former trouble.</p> - -<p>These, however, are the extraordinary and exceptional -cases. For routine treatment it may be -well to use the pressures for a considerable -period of time, so that their stimulating effect -may tend to create a “habit” in the peristaltic -muscles of the bowel. For the cure cannot be -considered complete until this “habit” is firmly -established.</p> - -<p>The pain, bleeding and swelling of piles is also -helped by these same procedures.</p> - -<p>The point to be most emphatically dwelt upon -in connection with the treatment of these conditions -is that “absent treatment,” or lick-and-a-promise -namby-pambyism, isn’t of any avail. -The pressures must be made by some one who -has more sympathy with the patient’s ultimate -good than he has for her present temporary discomfort, -and who will administer a good honest -treatment—preferably while the patient does all -she can—by tightly clasping the hands on the interlocked -fingers, or by grasping the chair or a -table with the finger tips—to reduce the sensitivity -of the zones operated upon.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="82"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82"></a></span></p> - -<p>If zone therapy is used in this manner, the results -will amaze and delight. For no method yet -evolved for the treatment of these disorders even -remotely approximates zone therapy in point of -efficacy.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" title="83"><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83"></a></span></p> - - - - -<h2>CHAPTER 8. - -<span class="title">RELAXING NERVOUS TENSION.</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>Perhaps you may not do it. You have -such splendid control over yourself. But -you know many people who, when angry, -or when suffering great physical pain, sink their -teeth into their lip. Sometimes they bite hard -enough to start the blood. Others clinch their -teeth and hands, and double their toes up in their -shoes. Why do you suppose they do this? They -do these, and many other natural and apparently -inevitable things, because they are instinctive and -scientific, and because Nature knows her business. -We have done and shall continue to do -them involuntarily and automatically, because -they relieve pain and nerve tension, because they -produce a form of analgesia, or pain-deadening, -similar to that which follows the injection of -water or some anesthetic solution into a sensory -nerve. If you stop and think for a moment many -examples of this inhibition—as it is called—will -recur.</p> - -<p>One of the most interesting, from our standpoint, -was that of a young school teacher, subject<span class="pagenum" title="84"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84"></a></span> -to cataleptic fits, who, when she felt one of -her fits coming on, stepped on her right toes with -all the weight she could throw on the left foot, at -the same time grasping the right wrist firmly. -Often those near—if notified in time—would produce -the pressures for her. In this way the young -woman managed to break up or prevent all except -severe and sudden attacks.</p> - -<p>It was subsequently found that this patient had -a chronic irritation in the right ovary, and also a -strained condition of the muscles of accommodation -in the right eye. When these conditions -were cleared up by proper remedial measures -and correction, the cataleptic attacks ceased.</p> - -<p>The fact of relief having followed in many instances -her “inhibiting” the right-sided zones indicated -the possible source of trouble. And by -painstakingly examining the organs in these -zones the cause of her condition was located and -finally overcome.</p> - -<p>So, as a means of diagnosis zone therapy has -an immense value. Its curative effects, however, -are most valuable and significant. Many of the -gravest nerve conditions—conditions which -failed to respond to the most skilled medical treatment -obtainable anywhere—have been completely -and permanently cured by the application of the -proper pressures—properly made.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="85"><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85"></a></span></p> - -<p>I recall a very grave case of neurosis—a -writer’s cramp—accompanying a neurasthenic -condition. This lady—unusually alert and intelligent—was -a physical and nervous wreck. Sleepless, -harassed by “nerves” in their most aggravated -form, she was unable to hold a pen, or to -write more than a few minutes at a time, until, -on account of the pain and twitching of the arm, -wrist, and fingers, she was forced to desist. She -could no more have picked up and threaded a -needle—let alone have sewed with it—than she -could have operated an aeroplane. She was also -nearly deaf from a middle ear trouble.</p> - -<p>Several months’ treatment, using the aluminum -comb across the front and back of the hands and -on the finger tips, and daily employment of the -tongue depressor for four or five minutes, -brought about a complete change in the patient’s -condition.</p> - -<p>It relaxed the terrible nervous tension—which -was particularly marked along the course of the -spine—enabling her to sleep at night, and awake -thoroly rested and refreshed in the morning. The -writer’s cramp was also completely cleared up. A -number of other conditions were also corrected, -and the hearing was improved quite 50%.</p> - -<p>This lady has since resumed her occupation as -a private secretary—a position she was forced by<span class="pagenum" title="86"><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86"></a></span> -ill health to relinquish more than two years ago—and -now writes for hours at a stretch, without -any return of the cramp in the hand and arm.</p> - -<p>And, most convincing of all, she can now not -only pick up, thread, and hold a needle—something -she had not been able to do for years—but -she can sew steadily for two or three hours, -and feel no disagreeable effects from this feminine -debauch.</p> - -<p>A peculiarly satisfactory characteristic in all -these cases is that the improvement is even more -apparent the “morning after” than it is immediately -after the treatment.</p> - -<p>Another case of neuritis in the arm and -shoulder (brachial neuritis) for more than six -years had been unable to raise his arm higher -than the shoulder. For the two months previous -to treatment he had been obliged to carry it in a -sling. The slightest movement of the arm brought -about a paroxysm of agonizing pain.</p> - -<p>A number of hollowed-out spring clothespins -were clamped on the fingers of the affected arm -(see Fig. <a href="#Fig_13">13</a>), and left there for twelve minutes. -At the expiration of this time the clamps were -removed.</p> - -<p>The patient gingerly took his arm from its support, -and after a minute or two spent in experimenting -with it, moved it freely up behind his<span class="pagenum" title="87"><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87"></a></span> -head and swung it behind his back in a sweeping -motion.</p> - -<p>It was subsequently found that this man also -had an osteopathic lesion, which was reduced by -Dr. Reid Kellogg, and after a few weeks’ “home -treatment”—consisting of five minute applications -of moderately tight rubber bands around -the ends of the fingers—he reported himself as -well—and has remained so for more than ten -months.</p> - -<p>For sciatic neuritis it is found that deep pressures -with the teeth of an aluminum or steel comb -made upon the toes are much more effective than -when made upon the fingers. When pain is most -severe on the back of the leg pressures should be -made upon the ball (sole) of the foot. (See Fig. <a href="#Fig_18">18</a>.) -When the front of the leg pains also, the -top of the foot should also be pressed.</p> - -<p>While we are on the subject of sciatica, I might -emphasize the importance of a careful examination -of the condition of the wisdom teeth. For -very frequently we have found this to be the -origin of the sciatic nerve trouble.</p> - -<p>Another interesting case, successfully treated -with clothespins, was that of a young man suffering -from hand tremors, insomnia, and nervous -exhaustion.</p> - -<p>He had his finger tips clamped daily for a<span class="pagenum" title="88"><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88"></a></span> -week. Then three times more, at intervals of -three days. After the eighth treatment he had -no further trouble with tremor, slept like a baby, -and was apparently relieved of all nervous -symptoms.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a id="Fig_18"></a> -<img src="images/i_088.jpg" width="500" height="354" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p><span class="smcap">Fig. 18.</span>—Showing a method of treating rheumatism or sciatica by -treating all five zones on the back of the leg and body.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>We have found it helpful, if the patient has -a good set of teeth, to have him clinch the teeth, -and also the hands, for several minutes at a time, -three or four times daily. This produces an -exaggerated degree of relaxation, which is most -helpful in overcoming nervous conditions.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="89"><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89"></a></span></p> - -<p>Most of our patients are also instructed to -“yawn prodigiously,” and stretch. This stimulates -a healthy action of the sympathetic nerves -in all the zones, and cannot fail but be most -beneficial. Sometimes the insomnia of neurasthenia -may be effectively overcome by tightly -clasping the hands—interlocking the fingers as -shown in Fig. <a href="#Fig_19">19</a>, or pressing the finger tips -firmly together, and holding this position for ten -or fifteen minutes—unless sleep should come -before this and relax the clasp.</p> - -<p>Also, the clinching or wriggling of the toes is -of benefit to a neurasthenic. In fact, I am convinced -that the method of relieving fatigue in -marching troops, discovered by Drs. DeFleury -and Jacques—of the French army, is largely -an application of the principles of zone therapy.</p> - -<p>The French surgeon’s idea is temporarily to -expel the blood from the legs by raising them. -The soldiers remove their shoes and lie prone on -the ground, close to a tree or wall, with heads -slightly elevated. They then raise their legs -against the wall, stretching upwards as far as -limb limitations permit.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="90"><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90"></a></span></p> - -<div class="figcontainer"> -<div class="figsub" style="width: 320px;"> -<a id="Fig_19"></a> -<img src="images/i_090.jpg" width="320" height="473" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p><span class="smcap">Fig. 19.</span>—Patient seventy-two years of age with carcinoma of left -side of tongue, jaw, and pharynx. Two days before this picture was -taken the patient was unable to open his mouth. The folded hands and -open mouth indicate not only relaxation of the jaws, but the method in -which it was brought about. Dr. J. W. Hogan painlessly extracted eighteen -teeth for this patient under pressure anesthesia.</p></div> -</div> - -<div class="figsub" style="width: 320px; padding-top: 59px;"> -<a id="Fig_20"></a> -<img src="images/i_091.jpg" width="320" height="414" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p><span class="smcap">Fig. 20.</span>—Patient with right hand in this picture is indicating with -index and middle finger the location of his pain, and how he is overcoming -it thru pressure on the arm of the chair with the tips of the -thumb and fingers of the left hand. We seldom are obliged to resort to -drugs for pain, even in malignancy.</p></div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="91"><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91"></a></span></p> - -<p>In this attitude the toes and ankles are worked -or “wriggled” briskly. Then the knees are -flexed and extended a half dozen times or more.<span class="pagenum hide" title="92"><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92"></a></span> -A body of men, apparently in the last stages of -exhaustion, recuperate their energies with from -five to fifteen minutes’ exercise of this kind.</p> - -<p>It can readily be seen how, by these exercises, -all the zones in the body would be stimulated to -a normal condition. And the fact that the exercises -practiced are successful on a wholesale -scale proves the principle sound.</p> - -<p>One of the most important things Americans -have to learn is how to relax. Anything that -will teach them to do this should prove a boon.</p> - -<p>Therefore I feel certain that, before many -years, the principles and practices of zone -therapy will be as familiar and universally applied -as are now the principles of domestic -hygiene or the practice of sterilizing baby -bottles. And then zone therapy will add to the -depth and breadth, as well as to the length of -human life.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" title="93"><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93"></a></span></p> - - - - -<h2>CHAPTER IX. - -<span class="title">CURING LUMBAGO WITH A COMB.</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>There is a solid and substantial satisfaction -in having lumbago. For we -know, without being told, that we have -it, and we don’t have to work our imagination -overtime providing it with symptoms.</p> - -<p>Also, lumbago offers less encouragement to -mental or psychological healing than most anything -ordinary we could gather up—except a -broken leg, a crop of boils, or an abscessed tooth. -And the same thing applies to its sisters-in-laws, -rheumatism and sciatica.</p> - -<p>Therefore, anything that cures lumbago, -rheumatism, sciatica, or similar afflictions, must -be able to “deliver the goods.”</p> - -<p>On this basis zone therapy must be considered -one of our most valuable methods for treating -these obstinate conditions. Naturally it is not -always successful. Neither are the salicylates, -hot mud baths, porous plasters, nor having teeth -pulled. And this is no more an apology for -zone therapy than it is for medicine.</p> - -<p>Lumbago, as a rule, responds very quickly and<span class="pagenum" title="94"><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94"></a></span> -kindly to zone therapy. Cases which come to -the office “all doubled up” are straightened out—frequently -in one treatment—and wend -their homeward way rejoicing.</p> - -<p>The weapon which has given us best results -in attacking lumbago and kindred affections is a -common, dull-pointed aluminum comb, such as -may be procured in most bird stores for dog-combing -purposes. The teeth of this are pressed -firmly on the palms of the hands and on the -palmar surface of the thumb, first, second and -third fingers. In order to get the best results -the pressures should be continued for from ten -to twenty minutes. Occasionally it may be -necessary to work also on the “web” between the -thumb and first finger, and also between the first -and second finger.</p> - -<p>Some zone therapy enthusiasts prefer to begin -operations on the tips of the thumb, first, second -and third fingers—gradually working up the -palms of the hands and spending five minutes—for -good measure—on the wrists.</p> - -<p>Remember always that the palmar surfaces -of the hands and fingers are to be attacked for -pains anywhere on the back, and the top or -(back) surfaces of the hands and fingers for -any trouble on the front of the body, arms or -legs. This may seem rather confusing at first,<span class="pagenum" title="95"><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95"></a></span> -but a little thought will make clear why, what -are commonly known as the back of the hands -are really the front or top, and correspond with -the front or top of the feet. The palms of the -hands correspond with the soles of the feet.</p> - -<p>It is also interesting to note that frequently -there are found areas which are extra sensitive -to the pressures of the comb.</p> - -<p>These areas correspond to the most painful -zones in other sections of the body. For instance, -if firm pressure on palmar surfaces of -right hand elicits more pain through the third -zone in the hand, if the patient has already complained -of pain in his back, such pain will usually -be found in the third zone, and this holds good -where pain is concerned throughout the body.</p> - -<p>If these sensitive areas are found, by commencing -gently and gradually increasing the -force of the pressure, toleration can be established. -In developing this toleration, the lumbago -is usually relieved.</p> - -<p>Some perfectly amazing results have been reported -from the comb method of treatment, particularly -in lumbago. One case, a minister who, -for weeks, had been unable even to turn in bed -without assistance, was, after a twenty-minute -treatment, able to arise and walk unaided. He -was entirely relieved of pain and discomfort<span class="pagenum" title="96"><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96"></a></span> -within a few hours, and the next day was “up -and around.” Relief almost always follows the -first treatment, apparently irrespective as to the -cause of the lumbago. I recall a recent case -which had persisted for more than three months. -This gentleman had taken practically every form -of treatment that could be recommended by the -most able specialists, had even been to Hot -Springs, without any except transient benefit. -He was bent almost double, and for many weeks -had not been able to stand erect. This patient -was given two aluminum combs and told to -squeeze them for ten or fifteen minutes, while -waiting in the ante-room. After being brought -into the office, his hands were thoroly “combed” -by pressure, from finger tip to wrist.</p> - -<p>He straightened out completely after this first -treatment, and expressed himself as entirely -relieved from pain. He received a similar treatment -the following day—after which he went -his way rejoicing.</p> - -<p>These results are practically uniform. I -know of many scores of patients thus cured with -a comb.</p> - -<p>Sometimes equally good results follow from -fastening hollowed-out spring clothespins on the -tips of the fingers (Fig. <a href="#Fig_13">13</a>), corresponding to -the zones in which the lumbago holds forth. Or<span class="pagenum" title="97"><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97"></a></span> -even from binding heavy bands around these -fingers (Fig. <a href="#Fig_5">5</a>)—leaving these in position five -or ten minutes at a time—unless the finger becomes -badly discolored sooner, in which case the -pressure must be temporarily removed.</p> - -<p>One zone therapy enthusiast, who claims that -“Treat It By Zone Therapy” should be hung in -every doctor’s office, while on a pilgrimage to a -Shriners’ Convention, noticed that the conductor -of the train walked “all doubled up” and seemed -to be suffering great pain. It developed that -the railroad man had a “misery in his back,” had -given up work, and had been in a sanitarium for -three weeks—without obtaining much relief—and -also that for the three days prior to his resuming -work, he had not been able to “straighten -up,” nor make any sudden move, without suffering -excruciatingly.</p> - -<p>He was invited to come into the smoking compartment -for a few minutes, where the doctor -put rubber bands on the thumb and forefinger of -each of the trainman’s hands, and at the same -time made firm pressure with his thumb-nails on -these ligatured fingers.</p> - -<p>The conductor was not informed of the purpose -of this procedure, so his imagination had -nothing to work on.</p> - -<p>After holding his fingers in this manner for<span class="pagenum" title="98"><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98"></a></span> -about ten minutes the whistle blew, and the conductor -had suddenly to leave his chair. He -straightened up and went out “on the run.”</p> - -<p>When he came back he laughed and said: -“This is the first time in six weeks I’ve gotten up -or moved without pain. What in thunder have -those little rubber bands to do with lumbago, -anyway?”</p> - -<p>The doctor saw this man before leaving the -train two hours afterwards, and the trainman -volunteered the information that “so far as the -lumbago is concerned I have no more feeling -than a fish.” And these results can be duplicated -by any one who will study the zone charts -(Figures <a href="#Fig_1">1</a> and <a href="#Fig_2">2</a>), and apply the simple technic -outlined.</p> - -<p>Naturally, in sciatica, and in articular or joint -rheumatism, the results have not been so uniformly -favorable. For sciatica may be due to -hip joint dislocation. Indeed, one of our most -famous bone surgeons claims that all cases of -sciatica result from a twist, or subluxation of -the hip joint which certainly is not true of those -cases cured with a comb, or by electricity, or by -some medical measure.</p> - -<p>In treating sciatica particular attention must -be given the “hip area” of the hand on the same -side as the sciatica. This means that the palmar<span class="pagenum" title="99"><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99"></a></span> -surface of the ring and little finger and the palm -of the hand on that side, as well as the “edge” -of the palm, running up over the top of the hand -must be thoroughly “combed.”</p> - -<p>But the best and most rapid relief for sciatica -is usually secured by “attacking” the soles of the -feet—using the comb in the same manner and -for the same areas as described for the hands. -In other words, by manipulating the zones in the -feet corresponding to the zones in the hands.</p> - -<p>Dr. George Starr White, of Los Angeles, California, -has invented a mechanical device for this -purpose, consisting of a piece of hard wood -about five inches in length, cut with deep screw-like -threads (see Figures <a href="#Fig_16">16</a> and <a href="#Fig_18">18</a>). A heavy, -smooth rope is attached to each end of this implement -of battle, and the patient uses it with a -long, strong pull for five or ten minutes at a -time—repeating the maneuver several times -daily. Possibly any rough-surfaced, home-made -device might give equally good results.</p> - -<p>In acute articular rheumatism, where there -are no gross pathological changes or stiffening -in the joints, splendid results have followed the -use of combs. It should be remembered that the -hip area corresponds with the shoulder on the -same side, the knee with the elbow, and the ankle -with the wrist, etc., and pain is often overcome<span class="pagenum" title="100"><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100"></a></span> -more quickly by attacking corresponding parts -with pressure or stimulation.</p> - -<p>One old lady who suffered terribly in the joints -of both hands, and who had not been able to sleep -for weeks without an opiate, experienced complete -relief after a half dozen treatments with -the comb over the tips of her fingers and thumb -(Fig. <a href="#Fig_12">12</a>). And she was able to sleep soundly -thereafter without the use of her usual hypnotic.</p> - -<p>A very interesting case of gonorrheal arthritis -was reported recently. This man’s right knee -joint was so painful that he could not bear to -have it touched. To bend the right leg at the -knee was out of the question.</p> - -<p>Two minutes’ pressure on the top and bottom, -as well as on the tip of the big toe, completely relieved -the pain, and upon testing the joint the -soreness seemed to have vanished. The doctor -then began carefully bending the knee, and to his -surprise, and to the amazement of the patient—who -hadn’t the slightest idea what was being attempted—the -knee could be flexed (bent) perfectly, -without any pain whatever.</p> - -<p>As this doctor makes a specialty of treating -painful joints by means of heat, light, mud baths, -and electricity, and has had a great deal of experience -in this work, we were much gratified to -hear him say that of all the cases he had ever<span class="pagenum" title="101"><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101"></a></span> -treated he never had anything seem so miraculous -as this. He further stated that he had -tried all his methods of treatment to alleviate -this man’s pain and to be able to flex the knee, -but without avail; yet zone therapy, applied at -the proper zone, brought about almost immediate -results.</p> - -<p>As demonstrating a peculiar phase of zone -therapy, and showing how great aches from -little corns may grow, here is a very interesting -and instructive case. A patient, suffering from -rheumatism in the left shoulder and arm, had, -for more than three weeks, been unable to sleep -on account of the pain. He had a small callous -growth on the tip of his left thumb, corresponding -to the zone in which the pain was located. -This was removed, and pressures were made -with a comb on the place where the finger corn -had formerly held forth. Within four days he -was completely cured.</p> - -<p>And this reminds me that a corn doctor is a -valuable aid in pressure therapy work. For -time and again I have seen pains as far away as -a headache relieved by clearing up the zone occupied -and irritated by a large pugnacious corn, -which was the actual cause of the headache—foolish-sounding -as it may seem.</p> - -<p>A little boy with an aggravated case of <span class="pagenum" title="102"><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102"></a></span>“wry -neck” had, for months, slept upon sand bags to -give him neck support. I cauterized the necks -of his teeth (always look to the condition of the -teeth in wry neck) with a fine platinum point -cautery (which is merely a direct way of stimulating -all the zones), and in a few days this -youngster was up and running around as well as -ever.</p> - -<p>Other cases of wry neck have been quite as -readily cleared up by combing the appropriate -fingers on the palm of the hand of the side involved -or by pressing with a cotton-tipped probe -on the proper zones on the posterior wall of the -throat, or on the under surface of the tongue and -on the floor of the mouth under the tongue.</p> - -<p>Most medical men, without stopping longer -than two seconds to think about it, will affirm -that all these things are ridiculous and absurd.</p> - -<p>This, you remember, was what contemporary -scientists told Galen and Harvey, and also what -the astronomers told Galileo.</p> - -<p>We spoke in a similar strain of radio activity, -the fourth dimension, wireless telegraphy, and -aerial navigation.</p> - -<p>Many erudite members of the medical profession -claim that zone therapy and zone analgesia -might be interesting if found in Gulliver’s -Travels or Munchausen’s Romances, but that<span class="pagenum" title="103"><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103"></a></span> -emphatically they have no place in medical literature. -For every one knows that an egg cannot -be made to stand on end.</p> - -<p>Yet we are standing this medical egg on end -every day.</p> - -<p>And there is no reason in the world why any -intelligent man or woman, let alone any intelligent -doctor, cannot do likewise, and put these -simple and helpful methods into practical application. -For it doesn’t even require faith.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" title="104"><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104"></a></span></p> - - - - -<h2>CHAPTER X. - -<span class="title">SCRATCHING THE HAND FOR SICK STOMACH.</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>Many of us know that if we are threatened -with sneezing and we press the -upper lip tightly against the teeth with -the fingers, that we can usually stop the sneeze. -Also, that if we drop a cold piece of metal down -the back, or press a piece of ice against the back -of the neck, it will frequently check nosebleed.</p> - -<p>But not many of us know that the reason these -things are thus is because, by these actions, we -are stimulating normal function in the first zone.</p> - -<p>Were we to press our cheek over the wisdom -tooth—which is in the fourth zone—or, rub the -ice on our third zone ear, the sneeze and the nose -bleed would pursue uninterruptedly the even -tenor of their ways.</p> - -<p>If you never had heard of these things, you -would probably say “pish,” and look around with -some trepidation for your informant’s keeper. -Yet, in all earnestness and sincerity, I would, if -you are one of those whose stomach is easily -upset, urge that the next time you board a train -or boat you arm yourself with a wire hair brush -and a metal comb.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="105"><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105"></a></span></p> - -<p>When the first faint qualms, premonitory of -an eruption or some other seismic disturbance in -your interior are felt, get busy with the comb -and brush—not on your head—but on your -hands.</p> - -<p>For sickness of the stomach is quite generally -relieved by steady pressure made over the first -and second zone on the backs of the hands with -the teeth of a metal comb. The comb should be -pressed firmly over the areas running from the -thumb and first finger of both hands, including -the web between the thumb and first finger—which -seems to have a very intimate connection -with the stomach. If there is no comb handy, -the finger nails will do good substitute work, but -the metal is best, as it seems to stimulate an -electrical contact that helps the “impulse.”</p> - -<p>This procedure is to be used only where the -stomach is irritated and threatens convulsive -contractures, or where there is pain, or distention -from gas. Relief of these conditions may generally -be expected in from five to ten minutes.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a id="Fig_21"></a> -<img src="images/i_106.jpg" width="330" height="359" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p><span class="smcap">Fig. 21.</span>—When I first saw this patient (January 9, 1913), the enlargement -in the neck, pronounced cancer, and inoperable, by some of -our best men in New England, was stony hard and exceedingly painful -to the touch. She had not been able to lie down for nine months, and -had not taken any solid food for three months; could open the mouth -only slightly, and with great difficulty. We induced speedy relaxation of -the neck (it was absolutely relaxed in four treatments) through pressure -with a dry cotton-wound applicator and also with a pencil moistened with -trichloracetic acid in varied strengths from twenty-five per cent to a saturated -solution, throughout the appropriate zones in the mouth, nose and -epipharynx. This patient responds quickly to pressure, and accurately -traces sensations of glow or numbness from the mouth to the extremities -and vice versa. These sensations are almost immediately followed by -lines of anesthesia. Note the neck of this patient (see Fig. <a href="#Fig_22">22</a>) fourteen -months later. Patient through pressure on fingers of zones involved keeps -side of neck constantly anesthetized, and therefore free from irritation, -with constant absorption of growth.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>If, however, the stomach is “dead”—the doctors -call it “atonic”—when it lies inert and unambitious -after a heavy meal—or even a small -meal that is heavy for that stomach at that particular -time—the best results are found in -gentle stroking or scratching with a wire<span class="pagenum hide" title="106"><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106"></a></span><span class="pagenum hide" title="107"><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">107</a></span><span class="pagenum" title="108"><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108"></a></span> -hair brush, or with the teeth of the comb. If these -are not available scratch with the finger nails, -but, as with the pressures, the most favorable -results follow the use of metal.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 330px;"> -<a id="Fig_22"></a> -<img src="images/i_107.jpg" width="330" height="428" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p><span class="smcap">Fig. 22.</span>—Photograph of patient in Fig. <a href="#Fig_21">21</a> seventeen months after -her first treatment. After three years improvement still continues.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>Remember that scratching stimulates, while -deep pressure with the teeth of the comb, finger -nails or wires of the hair brush relaxes.</p> - -<p>Also the next time the baby is restless and inclined -to double up and yell murder, instead of -doing a slippered constitutional up and down the -room with him, scratch the backs of his hands. -If he’s had too much to eat this may quiet him. -If, however, his little “tummy” is “working,” -try some pressures on his hands or feet, and see -how soon the “tummy” will knock off work.</p> - -<p>And, for the same sufficient reasons, try the -same thing on yourself and the family, instead -of “banging” the stomach over the head with a -dose of dope.</p> - -<p>The morning sickness of pregnancy yields -quite uniformly to deep pressures on the backs -of the hands, and it is much safer to try and -control this nausea from the hands than it would -be to resort to the severe pressures on the -tongue. For these latter, if too drastic, might -produce a miscarriage.</p> - -<p>Also, while it isn’t exactly zone therapy, it<span class="pagenum" title="109"><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109"></a></span> -might be interesting here to note that eating -salted popcorn has a tendency to help correct the -nausea of pregnancy, car sickness, and indigestion. -Many patients of mine keep a bowl of it -on a chair right alongside their beds, and commence -to eat it so soon as they awake in the -morning. A handful of popcorn, thoroughly -chewed, seems to help pacify the otherwise rebellious -stomach.</p> - -<p>Zone therapy pressures are valuable not only -in nausea and vomiting, but also in indigestion, -gastric catarrh and all forms of stomach disorders. -It has even been successfully employed -in gastric ulcer, with dangerous hemorrhages -and the other distressing symptoms of this painful -malady. Dr. Reid Kellogg has cured three -of these cases, one in ten treatments, the others -in two or three months. Two of these patients -had had an acute condition for two months—no -food whatsoever passing through the pylorus -(the exit of the stomach). They had been, of -course, fed by the rectum.</p> - -<p>Dr. Kellogg used the probe (Fig. <a href="#Fig_9">9</a>), low down -on the posterior (back) wall of the pharynx, and -used pressures over the thumb, first and second -fingers of both hands with the aluminum comb.</p> - -<p>In less than a dozen treatments these patients<span class="pagenum" title="110"><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110"></a></span> -were able to retain food taken into the stomach, -and practically conduct the entire subsequent -course of their own cure.</p> - -<p>To disabuse the minds of any who may evolve -the idea that zone therapy is of value only in conditions -that “don’t matter anyhow,” I want to -emphasize that these cases were most grave, and -that they had received skilled medical attention -for many weeks—without apparent benefit.</p> - -<p>It has been current knowledge—even before -those halcyon days when the banqueter retired to -have his throat tickled by a dutiful slave—that -by touching definite areas in the throat and at -the base of the tongue—vomiting could be induced.</p> - -<p>And now we have discovered how to put the -reverse English on the tickle, and keep it down -when it wants to come up. Which discovery -should also help increase the sum total of the -world’s health and happiness.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" title="111"><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111"></a></span></p> - - - - -<h2>CHAPTER XI. - -<span class="title">HAY FEVER, ASTHMA AND TONSILITIS.</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>If the United States Hay Fever Association, -and all individuals who suffer from hay -fever, will read carefully, and then apply -this chapter—as directed—the ravages of these -catarrhal cataclysms, I feel sure, will be beautifully -lessened.</p> - -<p>For zone therapy has an especial and peculiar -message for hay-feverites. It has mitigated, if -not entirely relieved, the red-eyed misery of hundreds -of them. And none—except those who -have been victims—can know what a real relief -this is.</p> - -<p>Nobody knows for certain what causes hay-fever, -and, judging from the textbooks, they -know even less regarding any definite method of -relieving it.</p> - -<p>It is possible that repeated “colds”—generally -from dust infection—result in a chronic irritation -of the mucous membrane, followed by a -thickening (or hypertrophy) of the tissues.</p> - -<p>This thickened tissue dams the circulation of -blood in the membranes, and presses upon the<span class="pagenum" title="112"><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112"></a></span> -delicate nerves of the nose, thereby irritating -them, which irritation proves to be the last straw. -So the nerves of the nose throw up both hands -with a despairing moan.</p> - -<p>An acute inflammatory irritation is established, -setting up a vicious circle. For the pressure -causes nerve irritation, and the nerves retaliate -by still further disturbing the circulation, -thereby causing more pressure.</p> - -<p>Then, if really it is pollen that causes the -physiological conflagration we call hay fever, the -mucous membrane is so susceptible that it will -readily respond to the action of the pollen. -Which is probably also true of those cases that -develop similar conditions from the odor of roses, -horses or cats.</p> - -<p>It is significant, however, that of all the hundreds -of hay-fever patients that have ever come -under my care not one had an absolutely normal -nose. Invariably there were bony spurs, protruding -turbinate bones, cartilages twisted out -of proper alignment, an inflamed and thickened -mucous membrane lining, or some other pathological -condition, one usually requiring surgical -interference.</p> - -<p>So if you have, or expect to have, hay fever -or any other abnormal condition of the nasal -mucous membranes, see a specialist and have<span class="pagenum" title="113"><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113"></a></span> -your nose placed in as near a perfect condition -as surgical skill and your physical shortcomings -will permit, not forgetting also a thorough -stretching of the soft palate. This the surgeon -will accomplish by means of a finger inserted in -the throat and a hooked instrument in the passage -back of the nose. By enlarging the contracted -parts of this passage normal drainage -and circulation in these tissues is established.</p> - -<p>The best results are obtained by operating -during the height of an attack. If sometimes -even a needle be thrust through the congested -mucous membrane, so that the blood flows freely, -the attack can be broken up, and the condition -frequently eradicated for that season.</p> - -<p>Then use any combination of the following -procedures, which experience may prove helpful, -remembering that here no fixed rule can be laid -down, and that what “works” magically in one -case might have but little effect in another.</p> - -<p>First, make steady firm pressures on various -points in the roof of the mouth with the thumb. -Be careful to “cover” the region directly on a -line with the nose. These pressures should be -maintained for from four to eight minutes at a -time, and repeated a half dozen or more times -daily. Those experienced in zone therapy claim<span class="pagenum" title="114"><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114"></a></span> -that the pressures have an immediate and powerful -effect upon abnormal conditions in this zone.</p> - -<p>At the same time the upper lip should be firmly -forced against the teeth with the first finger. -This usually has a most discouraging effect upon -sneezing.</p> - -<p>Pressures with a cotton-tipped probe on the -back wall of the pharynx (the inside junction of -the nose and mouth), as well as upon the mucous -membranes of the nose, give, in the hands of -physicians, the quickest results. The cotton-tipped -probe may be dipped in trichloracetic acid, -or some pungent agent, which will lend “punch” -to the contact impulse.</p> - -<p>A curious feature in connection with this probe -therapy is that if the patient, by coughing, resents -the presence of the instruments, the effect -seems to be dissipated. In other words, the -transmission of the nerve impulse is partly inhibited. -It is fair to say, however, that patients -become rapidly accustomed to what at first frequently -caused irritation.</p> - -<p>The use of a tongue depressor, covering the -center of the tongue fairly well “forward,” has -also been found most helpful, if pressed down -and held firmly several times a day for three -minutes or more at a time. In fact, it is expedient -to use the tongue depressor in almost all<span class="pagenum" title="115"><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115"></a></span> -nose, throat and stomach troubles—or, in fact, -any condition occurring in the “front” of the -body.</p> - -<p>The wearing of moderately tight rubber bands -upon the thumb, first and second fingers for ten -or fifteen minutes (or less, if the finger tips become -purple) repeated several times daily, seems -also to help materially. Indeed, some physicians -report that they get their very best results by -having their patients wear the bands as continuously -as possible, removing them only as -required to prevent blood stasis, and then replacing -them again.</p> - -<p>Pressures exerted with the finger and thumb -over the joints of the thumb, first and second -fingers or toes have given excellent results. -Three or four-minute pressures with an aluminum -comb on all surfaces of the thumb and first -finger—repeated several times daily—have -also given satisfactory relief in hay fever.</p> - -<p>Always the breath should be taken through the -nostrils. If the mouth persists in opening at -night, strap it shut with isinglass plaster cut in -thin strips.</p> - -<p>The treatment of asthma and other affections -of the respiratory passages is very similar to -that of hay fever, excepting that, instead of -pressing the tongue, more generally the floor of<span class="pagenum" title="116"><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116"></a></span> -the mouth is manipulated for this purpose—as -the impulse is thus more “direct.”</p> - -<p>Some of the results in asthma have been little -short of miraculous. One patient suffering with -bronchial asthma had been unable to lie down -for three years, what little sleep she secured being -taken propped in a chair. Her sole relief -consisted in the hypodermic injection of fifteen -drops of adrenalin solution, practically every -morning and night.</p> - -<p>I made pressure on the pharyngeal wall, at a -point “low down,” where the “metallic sensation” -was reflected into the bronchial region. Also I -used the probe on the floor of the mouth, directly -beneath the root of the tongue.</p> - -<p>Within five minutes this lady—for the first -time in three years—was relieved of all pain, -tightness, hoarseness, and shortness of breath. -In two months of this treatment she gained -fifteen pounds, and now sleeps through the night. -Also, she has been enabled completely to discontinue -her use of adrenalin.</p> - -<p>Another bronchial asthmatic suffered so -severely that he had made all arrangements, even -to packing his trunks, to retire from business and -seek health on the Riviera or in Egypt. His -“wheezing” was so pronounced that he could be -heard clear across a twenty-foot room. This<span class="pagenum" title="117"><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117"></a></span> -gentleman was advised by Dr. D. F. Sullivan, -senior surgeon of St. Francis Hospital, to see -me before leaving the country.</p> - -<p>I pressed on the floor of the patient’s mouth, -under the root of the tongue, with a cotton-tipped -probe, and made strong pressure on the first and -third zones of his tongue with a tongue depressor. -In three or four treatments this man was entirely -well, and informed us that he had indefinitely -postponed his trip abroad, and “was going back -to work again.”</p> - -<p>Zone therapists have found in throat and -chest cases that painting the tongue with iodine -on the upper and lower surfaces for about one-third -way back is most helpful.</p> - -<p>But one of the best of all methods by which -the patient may help himself consists in biting -the tongue as hard as comfortably can be borne, -holding that member between the teeth for several -minutes at a time, three or four times daily.</p> - -<p>Also, it is well carefully to examine the condition -of the teeth, throat and pharynx in asthmatic -cases, as frequently the asthma does not -clear up until some defect in these organs is -remedied.</p> - -<p>A twelve-year-old girl of my acquaintance, a -physician’s daughter, has developed considerable -technic in zone therapy. Only recently she relieved<span class="pagenum" title="118"><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118"></a></span> -the pain of a bad case of mumps by fastening -spring clothespins to the first, second and -third fingers of both her hands, leaving them on -until the finger tips became quite purple.</p> - -<p>The little lady proudly demonstrated her control -over the condition by taking a mouthful of -vinegar as a gargle. This, as every doctor -knows, is quite a crucial test.</p> - -<p>In tonsilitis good results almost invariably follow -pressure over the inferior dental nerve, at a -point where it enters the jaw bone. It requires -considerable skill to find this foramen (as it is -called), so this advice is really for doctors only.</p> - -<p>Pressure may also be made with the finger on a -probe back of the anterior pillars (membranes -situated in front of the tonsil).</p> - -<p>Yet much may be accomplished merely by -squeezing the joints of the second, third and -fourth fingers, and using a tongue depressor on -the extreme sides of the tongue.</p> - -<p>And this reminds me that a certain minister of -my acquaintance has been teaching his Boy -Scouts zone therapy methods, with especial reference -to curing themselves of coughs and other -common ailments. The boys also find it valuable -in their “First Aid to the Injured” work. I can -readily understand that the analgesic effects of -zone pressure should be effective in the camp, as<span class="pagenum" title="119"><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119"></a></span> -well as in the home, or in the dead-of-night -emergency.</p> - -<p>Zone therapy opens up a tremendous field. So -the more experimenters we have the sooner -every one will know just how tremendous and -useful and marvelous it is.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" title="120"><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120"></a></span></p> - - - - -<h2>CHAPTER XII. - -<span class="title">CURING A SICK VOICE.</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>We all remember the gentleman in one -of Moliere’s plays who was astounded -to learn that he had been -talking prose all his life. This verdant reminiscence -has an almost universal application.</p> - -<p>For instance, Umberto Sorrentino, the gifted -Italian tenor, has, for a number of years, relieved -the “tight,” inflexible throat, which is -the bane of vocalists and speakers, by grasping -his tongue firmly in a handkerchief, pulling it as -hard as could be comfortably borne, and wriggling -it slowly from side to side. This, he says, -eases up throat tension, and frees the voice. It -also has a tendency to abort a beginning cold.</p> - -<p>He was led to adopt this practice from observing -the beneficial effects of massage of the -throat in stimulating and otherwise improving -the circulation and releasing the muscles from -the bound condition, which invariably (in his -case) foreruns a cold. He reasoned that if external -massage was beneficial, internal massage -should be even more so; hence, the <span class="pagenum" title="121"><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121"></a></span>“wriggle.”</p> - -<p>Also, Miss Mabel Garrison, one of the new -lyric sopranos of the Metropolitan Opera House, -has won the appreciation and gratitude of various -members of the company, by curing stiff, inelastic -sore throats through pressures made upon -the vocalists’ tongues.</p> - -<p>There is a hint in these significant facts that -no singer, lawyer, actor, clergyman, mother of -a family, or business man can afford to ignore. -For almost everyone suffers occasionally from -defects somewhere in the delicate mechanism -that shapes air currents into beautiful sounds, -and molds breath into speech.</p> - -<p>Although they probably are not aware of this, -both Signor Sorrentino and Miss Garrison are -employing zone therapy in relieving these vocal -ills. For they are exerting pressures on the -first and second zones, the region which governs -the function of the vocal chords, the pharynx, -larynx, and the respiratory passages.</p> - -<p>And while their results have been very remarkable, -and eminently satisfactory to themselves -and their fellow artists, they would be -even more striking were the pressures made -more “direct.”</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a id="Fig_x"></a> -<img src="images/i_122.jpg" width="500" height="634" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p class="tac">SIGNOR UMBERTO SORRENTINO,</p> - -<p>the noted tenor, who relieves “tight” throat by making strong traction -on the tongue. By pressure on the anterior third of the tongue, and -by stimulating the outside lateral aspects of the fore fingers (which distinctly -govern the vocal cords) Sorrentino has relieved himself and many -of his friends of what promised to be serious throat conditions.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>In other words, if, instead of squeezing and -making strong traction on the tongue, or of -using a depressor on this member, they were to<span class="pagenum hide" title="122"><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122"></a></span><span class="pagenum" title="123"><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123"></a></span> -do these things and, in addition, apply firm pressure -on the floor of the mouth, beneath the -tongue, with a cotton-tipped metal probe (see -Fig. <a href="#Fig_6">6</a>), dipped in spirits of camphor or alcohol -(to increase the “impulse”), their results would -be far more certain and satisfactory.</p> - -<p>In all cases of hoarseness, huskiness, or in loss -of voice due to irritation or strain—as in -clergyman’s sore throat—these practices almost -invariably give relief. I remember a case of a -soprano whose upper register was completely -lost through long-continued strain. The floor -of her mouth—directly under the tongue, and -up to the roots of the lower incisor teeth, was -“prodded” intermittently for a period of fifteen -minutes, with the metal probe. The cotton on -the tip of the probe was dipped in some pungent -agent, for the purpose, as before stated, of increasing -the nerve “response.”</p> - -<p>Marked improvement followed the first treatment. -She was, however, cautioned not to attempt -to use the voice, except for a moment or -two after treatments—to observe the effect.</p> - -<p>The singer also carried out “home treatments,” -consisting in five-minute firm applications -of a tongue depressor (see Fig. <a href="#Fig_17">17</a>) on the -center of the tongue. This was done every four -hours. In addition, she squeezed the sides of<span class="pagenum" title="124"><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124"></a></span> -her thumbs. This action, especially if accompanied -by digging the finger nails into the inner -side of the thumb—which area is distinctly in -the vocal chord zone—has a specific effect upon -the vocal chords. Within three days this lady -had completely recovered, and was able to return -to her company.</p> - -<p>Zone therapy has, in innumerable instances, -restored speaking voices that were as lost as the -Lost Hope. Indeed, it is of common occurrence -to have a clergyman, a lawyer, or a business -man who has become aphonic (voiceless) from -long dictation, or some other vocal strain, come -to the specialist in zone therapy, unable to speak -above a whisper, and within a half hour go his -way rejoicing—practically as “good as new”.</p> - -<p>This, by application of the probe on the floor -of the mouth, pressures on the tongue, and sometimes -pressures on the thumb and fingers, any -and all of which procedures can be successfully -used by any intelligent man or woman in the relief -of their own troubles, or in curing these -troubles in their family.</p> - -<p>Respecting the finger pressures, it must be -borne in mind that it is necessary to work on -the particular zone involved. For instance, it -would be useless to make pressures over the -thumb joints if the cause of the throat trouble<span class="pagenum" title="125"><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125"></a></span> -should happen to be a congested tonsil. The -third, fourth and fifth fingers would have to be -invoked for relief in this zone.</p> - -<p>It is, however, perfectly remarkable what -these finger pressures alone will accomplish. -One of the earlier experimental cases was a -patient who had been speaking on and off all -day at a Sunday School Convention held in a -grove. This grove must have been an ideal spot -for a nice open air meeting. But the leafy -bowers, the sylvan glades, and the bossy dells -were not built for acoustic purposes.</p> - -<p>The consequence was that, when the shades -of night were falling fast our hero was “all in”. -He couldn’t speak above a whisper. He had -such contraction of the muscles that he couldn’t -even open his jaws—let alone communicate intelligent -information through them.</p> - -<p>This was his condition when he presented -himself the following noon petitioning relief. -He had had nothing to eat since late lunch the -day before, although, whether he knew it or not, -he had had enough then to last him a week.</p> - -<p>Of course, as he could not open his mouth -it was not possible to treat him by pressures on -the floor of the mouth, and on the tongue. So -he was provided with an aluminum comb, and -shown how to make pressures on the back of his<span class="pagenum" title="126"><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126"></a></span> -hand, extending up from the thumb to the -wrist, and over to the fourth finger, and left to -his own devices for twenty-five minutes.</p> - -<p>At the expiration of this time he had relaxed -the tension of his jaw muscles and relieved the -irritation in his throat to such an extent that he -went out and had a comfortable lunch. Returning -to the specialist’s office, pressures were made -with a padded probe (see Fig. <a href="#Fig_9">9</a>) on the wall -of the pharynx—the probe being introduced -through the nostril.</p> - -<p>Also, he was given instrumentation on the -floor of the mouth, underneath the tongue, and -a conscientious treatment with a tongue depressor. -This weapon he took home and used, -carrying out also the combing of the back of -the hands. Three days afterwards he sang in -the choir as well as ever.</p> - -<p>Deep massage with the fingers on the muscles -of the throat, and a “plucking” of the voice box -are also helpful procedures. Where the irritation -or the inflammation is not extensive it -might be well to include them as routine measures -in most throat troubles. Where there is -active congestion they are, of course, not only -useless, but actually harmful.</p> - -<p>A very frequent cause of vocal ills, and a -condition most generally associated with a congested<span class="pagenum" title="127"><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127"></a></span> -throat, is a “stuffy” nose. Also, it is -quite impossible to get a perfect vocal resonance -if the membranes of the nose are swollen and -congested with “cold” or catarrh.</p> - -<p>The tongue and finger pressures do much to -relieve these conditions, but perhaps the surest -and quickest method of curing them is to -“pencil” the nose with a probe, using the uncovered -steel for this purpose. And, I may here -remark, that the patient’s own saliva is one of -the best and least irritating lubricants for this -probe work in the nose.</p> - -<p>The steel should be left in each nostril several -minutes, and gently moved back and forth from -time to time, for the tonic “penciling” or “ironing” -effect. The curative influence of this on -chronic nasal catarrh or other pathological conditions -of the nose is sometimes quite remarkable.</p> - -<p>Also, it might be well here to add that -atomizers are useless, except temporarily—as -after exposure to a horde of sneezers or coughers. -In this event, an alkaline antiseptic may be -of value.</p> - -<p>But the constant washing away of the natural -secretion of the mucous membrane, or the perpetual -coating over of the air passages with a -film of oil—which prevents the natural secretion<span class="pagenum" title="128"><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128"></a></span> -from being natural—is distinctly injurious. -For it tends to provoke, perpetrate and perpetuate -all forms of catarrh, and none should -use them—except under physician’s instruction—and -then for a short time only. Stimulate -normal function with a probe or sound, used -at night before retiring, and in the morning on -arising, and cure the condition instead of making -it chronic.</p> - -<p>It wouldn’t be difficult to get affirmative evidence -to the fact that a sick voice is one of the -sickest and most disheartening things that can -befall one who must depend upon it for a living. -But, with a little patience, and an intelligent application -of the principles of zone therapy, it is -a “cinch”.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" title="129"><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129"></a></span></p> - - - - -<h2>CHAPTER XIII. - -<span class="title">A SPECIFIC FOR WHOOPING AND OTHER COUGHS.</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>For years eminent scientists have been -spending much valuable time and money -in seeking a cure for whooping cough. -Still the whoop persists. The distress, the after -effects on the bronchial tubes, and the weakening -influence—frequently leading to the later -development of tuberculosis—remains uninfluenced. -The disease runs its course, irrespective -of any or all treatments.</p> - -<p>Yet whooping cough is one of the simplest -and most easily-cured diseases with which zone -therapy has to contend. An ordinary case of -whooping cough, which has persisted for weeks, -can sometimes be cured in from three to five -minutes. Rarely are more than four or five -treatments necessary. Case after case is recalled -in which, after the application of a cotton-tipped -probe—held down firmly on the back of -the throat (the post-pharyngeal wall), little -patients who had whooped themselves into a state -of nervous and physical exhaustion, never had -another paroxysm of coughing.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="130"><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130"></a></span></p> - -<p>If the savants of the various research institutions -throughout the country are really sincere -in attempting to discover a cure for whooping -cough, asthma, goitre, and a score of other conditions—conditions -successfully treated by zone -therapy—it will be easy to put this method to -the test.</p> - -<p>If they do not themselves care to make the -experiment, I will come to New York and demonstrate -the method on one or one hundred cases, -and show that, in from one to a half dozen treatments -with a steel probe, whooping cough can -be effectively and permanently overcome. This -may or may not be worth the attention of these -gentlemen. I can do no more than make the -offer, which, I emphasize, is made in perfect -good faith and in the interest of humanity and -science.</p> - -<p>The most remarkable feature of a brand-new -discovery is very frequently its hoary-headedness. -For this reason, when we come to think -about this matter of the mechanical relief of -cough, we are struck with its antiquity. From -time antedating the memory of man, humanity -has pressed its second finger in its pharynx -(that space which spreads out from the back -part of the mouth and throat up into the nose) -or the larynx (a continuation of the pharynx),<span class="pagenum" title="131"><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131"></a></span> -for the purpose of loosening a dry cough or to -facilitate expectoration.</p> - -<p>All grandmothers, ever since there were -grandmothers, have put their fingers in babies’ -throats to give them relief in croup. Some of -the wisest of these grandmothers used to press -the handle of a spoon on the back part of the -tongue, in order to abort a beginning cold, or -cause a profuse secretion of mucus in conditions -associated with a dry, metallic cough.</p> - -<p>Our old-time cure for hiccoughs has the same -reason for its existence. For, when we grasp -the tongue of a hiccougher, and with a long pull, -a strong pull, and a pull all together, haul the -offending member to tongue’s length—and hold -it there—we cure the spasmodic contraction of -the diaphragm (the cause of hiccough) by influencing -the zone in which the trouble originates. -This is the principle by which we cure -whooping cough, or indeed any cough that originates -in any portion of the respiratory tube. -But, we have found in these cases that spots in -the vault or wall of the pharnyx, if pressed -firmly with a cotton-wrapped probe, as large as -can be comfortably passed through the nostrils, -gives the quickest and most definite results.</p> - -<p>For the “reflex”—the sensation of pain, -tingling, or cold, which is transmitted along the<span class="pagenum hide" title="132"><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132"></a></span><span class="pagenum hide" title="133"><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">133</a></span><span class="pagenum" title="134"><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134"></a></span> -nerve zones by this contact,—can be definitely -traced by the patient to the exact spot where the -irritation seems to originate.</p> - -<p>By slightly raising the handle of the probe, -and thereby altering its point of contact on the -business end, this influence can be directed with -almost mathematical precision to the area we -desire to influence.</p> - -<p>When the exact “spot” is pressed—and a little -practice will soon make the finding of this almost -automatic—the pressure should be firmly held -for several minutes. The throat may feel slightly -“lame” afterwards—but this soon passes off. -If it does not, pressure brought to bear upon the -appropriate thumb or finger will relieve the -“lameness.”</p> - -<p>In an experience with several hundred cases -of whooping cough we have not yet seen a -failure from the proper application of zone -therapy. This, I believe, is more than can be -truly said of any other form of treatment.</p> - -<p>A very few treatments only are necessary to -relieve even the most aggravated case of whooping -cough—or any cough which originates in -the respiratory passage in that zone.</p> - -<p>In other words, a tubercular cough, which has -its cause in a lesion on the extreme right or left -of the lung would not respond to pressures in<span class="pagenum" title="135"><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135"></a></span> -the middle zones. Likewise a cough which was -reflected from a congested liver, or from some -other organ not in the first and second zones, -would fail to respond to pressures made as here -described. Any intelligent man or woman can -apply these pressures—and with almost the -same success as would attend the effort of the -most famous specialist.</p> - -<p>It sometimes assists very materially if the -tongue, for about a third way back, is thoroly -painted above and below with tincture of iodin. -The mild irritation from the iodin tends to -stimulate the normal function of all those zones -interested in keeping up the cough.</p> - -<div class="figcontainer"> -<div class="figsub" style="width: 330px; padding-top: 32px;"> -<a id="Fig_23"></a> -<img src="images/i_132.jpg" width="330" height="471" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p><span class="smcap">Fig. 23</span>—Anterior quarter of tongue coated with tincture of iodin—both -surfaces.</p></div> -</div> - -<div class="figsub" style="width: 330px;"> -<a id="Fig_24"></a> -<img src="images/i_133.jpg" width="330" height="503" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p><span class="smcap">Fig. 24</span>—Four minutes after complete absorption of the iodin (see -Fig. <a href="#Fig_23">23</a>) has taken place. The patient is indicating the sensation of heat -or reaction over several zones in the chest where it is most pronounced. -Few patients experience these sensations, but all patients experience the -benefit. This reaction does, as a matter of fact, extend over the entire -body. It is easily demonstrated that the tongue, when firmly compressed -by the teeth, will often produce relaxation of the entire body, for the -mouth is also divided into ten zones. These illustrations indicate the possibility -of the speedy absorption of toxins from inner surfaces of neglected -teeth and gums.</p></div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>If the use of the probe through the nostrils -seems too much like a surgical operation, very -good—though not so rapid and effective results—will -follow the application of firm pressures -on the front part of the tongue, and on the floor -of the mouth directly under the tongue.</p> - -<p>Also moderately tight rubber bands should be -worn on the thumbs and first fingers of both -hands for five or ten minute intervals, several -times a day. This might be supplemented also -with strong pressure with the finger and thumb -over the bridge of the cougher’s nose.</p> - -<p>If there should be a frontal headache associated -with the cough—a very frequent symptom<span class="pagenum" title="136"><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136"></a></span> -if the cough has persisted for any length of -time—the finger and thumb should be moved up -to the very root of the nose. This shall be -pinched gently for several minutes, right at the -place where the nose ends and the eyes begin.</p> - -<p>One of the most remarkable things zone -therapy has yet done (although I am not surprised -at anything it may do) was to cure a -forty-year-old cough, originating in a tracheal -(or wind pipe) irritation. The patient received -one treatment with a probe (Fig. <a href="#Fig_9">9</a>) on the back -wall of the pharynx.</p> - -<p>She experienced relief after the second treatment, -and continued to improve until, at the expiration -of three weeks, she was discharged as -cured. Now, after 15 months, there has been -no return of the cough.</p> - -<p>Another patient with bronchial cough associated -with lagrippe, under my instruction, relieved -herself by pressures made with the finger -and thumb over the bridge of the nose, and by -the wearing of rubber bands around the thumbs -and first fingers of both hands.</p> - -<p>This lady reported the following morning that -she had enjoyed the first night’s sleep she had -had in more than five nights, and that a persistent -and most annoying headache had also -cleared up.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="137"><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137"></a></span></p> - -<p>These results are quite uniform, and can be -duplicated by any one who will try patiently and -painstakingly to duplicate them.</p> - -<p>Indeed, so simple is the procedure that I have -repeatedly seen bronchial and other coughs, resulting -from irritation or congestion at some -point in the air passages, completely cured, -merely by pressure on the tongue with the handle -of a tablespoon or a toothbrush. And many of -these had persisted for a long time.</p> - -<p>I believe the time is not far distant when every -one will be his own cough doctor; when mothers, -instead of doping their children with dangerous -opiates or stomach-destroying nostrums will, -with a tongue depressor, or a probe, do successfully -in a few hours what now (to perpetrate an -Irish bull) is done inadequately or not at all in -many days.</p> - -<p>Here is the knowledge. There are no patents -or restrictions upon it. Every one is free to use -it to the fullest and most helpful possible extent.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" title="138"><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138"></a></span></p> - - - - -<h2>CHAPTER 14. - -<span class="title">HOW A PHANTOM TUMOR WAS DISSIPATED.</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>Last June the New Hampshire Dental -Society held a convention at Weirs, on -Lake Winnepesaukee. One of the residents -of the summer colony was brought before -the convention on the evening of June 23d. Her -serious condition baffled the local physicians. It -was hoped that among the two hundred scientific -men, gathered there from all parts of the East, -some might be found who could help her.</p> - -<p>She was a woman about thirty-five years old, -well nourished and apparently healthy, apart -from a large swelling in the front of the neck. -Manifestly the thyroid and other glands had become -enlarged through some unknown inflammatory -cause. She was suffering great pain. -The slightest touch caused agony. Swallowing -was impossible. Not even a drop of water had -passed down her throat since the preceding Friday -night. This was Wednesday night.</p> - -<p>A healthy human being can exist from seven -to ten days without water. This woman had -been without water for five days, suffering -mental and physical torture. Her physician in<span class="pagenum" title="139"><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139"></a></span>sisted, -as the only means of saving her life, that -an operation be performed at once. The half -dozen or more physicians who had been called in -consultation concurred in this. There was -nothing left but to perform an intubation—the -insertion of a tube in the gullet, through which -water and food might be passed, pending some -possible measure of relief.</p> - -<p>The heart was racing along at one hundred -and fifty beats a minute, and there were all the -peculiar symptoms usually associated with -thyroid disturbances. Inasmuch as the whole -trouble had developed in a week, it was most -unlikely that the condition was goitrous.</p> - -<p>As it was probable that the trouble was associated -with the thyroid, a physician present decided -to try zone therapy, because it could be -applied instantly, and promised immediate results -if successful.</p> - -<p>Calling one of the dentists to make strong -pressure over the first joint of one thumb, the -doctor grasped the other thumb. This simple, -apparently foolish, treatment was maintained -for three minutes. The patient began to show -signs of relief. The drawn lines on her face -softened. She could bear without shrinking the -touch on her neck.</p> - -<p>The doctor sent for a glass of water, and held<span class="pagenum" title="140"><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140"></a></span> -it to the patient’s lips. She took a sip of water, -which she swallowed with much difficulty and -pain—the first drop in five days.</p> - -<p>“It is the most delicious thing I ever tasted,” -she whispered.</p> - -<p>She was able to swallow about a third of a -glass upon her first attempt. The pressures were -continued intermittently for about an hour, and -within that time she was able to drink four -glasses of water and a glass of malted milk. A -light rubber band was placed over her thumb -joints, as shown in Fig. <a href="#Fig_5">5</a>, and she enjoyed her -first night’s sleep since the inflammation had -developed.</p> - -<p>The next morning she reported that she was -almost entirely relieved. The swelling was -hardly perceptible, and she could bear reasonable -pressure over the glands without discomfort. -She had no difficulty in swallowing. In a few -days she was fully recovered, and has had no -return of the trouble.</p> - -<p>With the relief of nerve tension—consciously -or unconsciously exerted—there necessarily follows -a relief in either the constricted or the congested -condition of the lymphatic glands or ducts, -the thyroid and other ductless glands, and also -of the vasomotor nerves, which control the flow -of blood through the blood vessels.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="141"><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141"></a></span></p> - -<p>This action, no doubt, accounts for the marvelous -results which zone therapy has produced -in the treatment of glandular and circulatory diseases—whether -due to nervous, or physical -causes.</p> - -<p>In the famous “globus hystericus”—that big -lump comes up in the throat of an hysteric—there -is no speedier or more effective treatment -than zone therapy. Merely take the hands of -the hysterical individual, squeeze them as hard -as she can bear the pressure, and maintain this -pressure for several minutes. Almost immediate -relaxation of all the zones will follow, and -with this relaxation a disappearance of the great -lump in the throat.</p> - -<p>The combs or the wire hair brush may be used, -if preferred. Or, if none of these are available, -merely scratch the back of the hands with the -finger nails. It will help materially, of course, -if suggestion be employed, using the voice in a -soothing manner.</p> - -<p>But the results are quite as effective—although -not as rapid—if the patient has no idea -concerning what is being attempted.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" title="142"><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142"></a></span></p> - - - - -<h2>CHAPTER 15. - -<span class="title">DR. WHITE’S EXPERIENCE.</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>One of the most thoro and able diagnosticians -in America, if not in the world, -is George Starr White, M. D., of Los -Angeles, Cal., discoverer of the bio-dynamic -method of diagnosis. I reproduce a small portion -of his experiences in zone therapy and zone -anesthesia—as detailed in his Lecture Course.</p> - -<p>“A few years ago, while experimenting on the -anesthetic effect of the Tesla current, I observed -that by giving a current that produced a severe -shock to the fingers, I was able to pierce them -with needles and not feel pain. I did not realize -why these results were obtained. But experiments -on animals gave me a hint. For one of -my horses backed into a window, and got a large -piece of glass into the sacral region (near the -tail). We tried, without success, to put her into -a narrow stall and tie her legs so we could -operate, as a large incision had to be made to -extract the foreign body. Finally one of our -men suggested that we tie a slipper-noose, which -he called a ‘twitch’, around the horse’s nose. He<span class="pagenum" title="143"><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143"></a></span> -made this ‘twitch’ out of a piece of thin rope, put -it on the horse’s nose, and we started to operate. -The result was a collision between the horse’s -hind legs and my abdomen. I told the man to -put the ‘twitch’ on again, tie it tightly, and hold -it for two or three minutes. Then, altho I made -a deep incision to take out the glass, the horse -did not flinch.</p> - -<p>“I realize now that we used zone anesthesia, -as the sacral region and the nose are in the same -zone. At other times we have had occasion to -do minor operations on cows and pigs on my experiment -farm, and have noticed that, by putting -a ‘twitch’ on the nose, the animals did not seem -to experience any pain.</p> - -<p>“Also, before anesthesia was so well known, I -remember seeing surgeons do minor operations -on individuals who would take no chloroform. -Almost always the patients closed their teeth, or -clinched their hands on some rough substance. -Then ‘they could stand anything.’</p> - -<p>“Later I heard Dr. William H. Fitzgerald explain -zone therapy. Then I realized that we have -always used zone therapy, although we did not -know it.</p> - -<p>“After spending a few days with Dr. Fitzgerald, -I met at a dinner party, a lady who had -a severe frontal headache. Obtaining her permission<span class="pagenum" title="144"><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144"></a></span> -to try a new ‘cure’, I exerted pressure -upon the thumb, first and second fingers, and -within five minutes the headache had disappeared. -I had similar success in treating a -toothache.</p> - -<p>“I shortly afterwards called on a New York -physician who had previously been one of my -pupils, and asked him if he knew anything about -zone therapy. He said he did not, but had read -about it in some of the journals, and thought -‘it must be all imagination.’ I then held his -fingers, pretending I was trying to see how much -resistance there was in his muscles. Within three -minutes I laid a button hook on his eyeball without -his flinching. I took a stickpin from his -cravat, and pushed it into his cheek, and put -several pins into his face, without his feeling -them. He could not bear the touch of a pin in -any other zone. He called his wife, and she was -horrified when she saw him so ‘stuck up.’ I withdrew -the pins and sterilized his face. He is now -a staunch believer in zone anesthesia.</p> - -<p>“At several of our lecture courses in Chicago -and elsewhere, I had an opportunity to show -these methods, and made some very interesting -observations. We found that light would not -contract the pupil of the eye that had been attacked -through the finger zones to the same degree<span class="pagenum" title="145"><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145"></a></span> -as the pupil of the eye that had not been -so attacked.</p> - -<p>“One of the doctors in a Chicago class, on -hearing of zone anesthesia, told me that about -two years previous he was suffering from inguinal -hernia (rupture) and a radical operation -was advised. He went to the hospital, and the -anesthetist began to prepare him for the anesthesia. -He told them that he wanted no anesthesia, -as he was going to have the operation -done without taking anything. The surgeon was -loath to operate without some kind of general -or local anesthetic, but he told him he wanted -nothing, as he thought he could control himself. -The surgeon consented, but had ready chloroform -and a hypodermic with cocaine. The Doctor -clinched his teeth and hands with all his -might, and put himself into as powerful a tension -as possible for about three minutes before lying -on the table. He then laid down, relaxed, and -said ‘go ahead.’ From the beginning to the end -of the operation all he noticed, he said, was that -there was something going on, but he felt absolutely -no pain. I looked at his teeth, and saw -that the occluding (biting) surfaces were very -good indeed, which accounts in a great measure -for the efficacy of the zone anesthesia.</p> - -<p>“Dr. Fitzgerald has treated many cases of<span class="pagenum" title="146"><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146"></a></span> -cancer and tumor, and has had some extraordinary -successes with some of them. He carefully -avoids any reference to the value of zone therapy -in these conditions, but, to my mind, the results -achieved warrant mention. I saw two most interesting -cases in his practice. One, a lady, -about 55 years of age, had a growth on the side -of her neck, diagnosed as cancer. By the bio-dynamic -method, I confirmed this diagnosis. -This growth was as large as an ordinary sized -orange, and very hard and unyielding. The lady -told us that, until she began being treated by -means of zone therapy and zone analgesia, she -had not slept for months without some opiate. -For more than two years now she said she had -taken no opiates, and had rested without any -pain when zone pressure anesthesia was used.</p> - -<p>“When I saw this lady the size of the growth -had diminished from this treatment, until it -would not be recognized except by palpation -(feeling with the fingers). I also saw her photograph, -taken before she began treatment, and the -improvement was certainly remarkable. I do -not know whether zone therapy will ever cure -this case, but we do know that it is making life -endurable to the unfortunate victim.</p> - -<p>“Several of my pupils have used the Fitzgerald -method for operation on turbinate and<span class="pagenum" title="147"><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147"></a></span> -other nasal obstructions, as well as upon obstetric -(childbirth) cases, with most gratifying results -in all of them.</p> - -<p>“Two or three cases out of ten will not, it -seems, respond to zone therapy. But the majority -will. There is no doubt a good reason for -the failures, such as blocking of the ‘zone paths’ -in some manner—as by a tumor, growth, pus -condition, or obstruction. Or again, failure may -be due to faulty technic. Better results will no -doubt come with more experience. It only requires -that the method be tried out on a huge -scale, and by a large number of competent observers. -Then the collated results will furnish -us a basis for accurate application of these most -wonderful and helpful principles.”</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" title="148"><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148"></a></span></p> - - - - -<h2>CHAPTER 16. - -<span class="title">ZONE THERAPY—MAINLY FOR DENTISTS.</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>There are four reasons why zone -analgesia—as we call the pain-relieving -properties of zone therapy—are not -more generally used by dentists. One is that the -dentist doesn’t wish to put himself in the embarrassing -position of suggesting such a foolish-seeming -thing to his pain-racked patient. Another -is that the patient herself thinks she’s conferring -a favor upon the dentist by permitting -him to spend five or ten minutes’ valuable time -in attempting to alleviate her sufferings, and -make the ordeal of cavity preparation or scaling -comparatively painless.</p> - -<p>Also, to press over the roots of a tooth for -three, four, or more minutes—exerting, after -toleration is established, all the force of which the -operator is capable—is hard work. It’s much -quicker and easier, and less likely to numb the -dentist’s thumb and finger, to “slap” a gas cone -over the patient’s nose, or inject cocaine around -the gums—which, to my mind, hurts almost as -badly as having the tooth extracted.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="149"><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149"></a></span></p> - -<p>There is yet another reason, however, which -partially justifies the previous three. The analgesic -results of zone pressure are not sufficiently -uniform to “bank” on. In other words, a dentist, -led by previous successes, might be tempted confidently -to assure a patient of the painlessness, -under zone analgesia, of a certain operation. -But when he commenced to work he might almost -lift the top of his victim’s head off. To -obviate this do not limit the pressure to three -minutes only, and do not attempt to operate or -extract until a puncturing test with a sharp instrument -shall prove the part to be desensitized.</p> - -<p>Also, I would here emphasize that there is no -use in attempting, with zone analgesia, to relieve -pain if it is desired to remove a nerve. We do -not pretend to explain why it is possible, for instance, -to work thirty-five minutes, (as demonstrated -before the Mass. Dental Society by Dr. -B. A. Sears, of Hartford) and cut the jaw bone -all to pieces in order to remove an impacted -wisdom tooth, while we are unable to thrust a -nerve broach into a root canal. But the fact -remains, and some time, when pathologists and -other experts have studied these problems, we -may know why. But for the present, we must be -content to be guided by dearly-bought experiences.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="150"><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150"></a></span></p> - -<p>There is no known way of telling in advance, -just what degree of analgesia success is assured. -Dr. M. W. Maloney, of Providence, R. I., and -Dr. Wm. J. Hogan, of Hartford, Conn., claim -successful results with about 80% of their cases. -Dr. Everett M. Cook, of Toledo, Ohio, writes -that he is easily successful in 75% of his cases. -Dr. Thomas J. Ryan, of New York, is quite uniformly -successful in desensitizing the gums for -pyorrhoea treatment. While other dentists -range on down to as low as 50% of successes, or -even to zero.</p> - -<p>There are probably very definite reasons for -this, although it may be difficult to convince the -average dentist that such exist. First, it requires -a fine technic to find the various dental nerves, -and, by commencing gently, and gradually increasing -pressures, to anesthetize them without -hurting the patient more than the operation -might have hurt him. In which case he has the -pain of the operation plus the pain of attempting -to analgesize his unresponsive nerve points.</p> - -<p>Next, when pressures are made over the -fingers, especially where no clamps or rubber -bands are used, there is a tendency to skimp on -the time devoted to the finger squeezing. The -dentist or his assistant will give the job a “lick -and a promise”—and let it go at that. They<span class="pagenum" title="151"><a name="Page_151" id="Page_151"></a></span> -don’t use sufficient time or sufficient force really -to accomplish anything.</p> - -<p>And third, they won’t take the time properly -to learn the zones and the teeth relations, and -apply in a serious way the knowledge so acquired.</p> - -<p>However, for the benefit of those dentists -who may be interested in learning how to desensitize -cavities in sensitive teeth, or do some -of the necessarily painful scaling of tartar and -other deposits in pyorrhea, and for the particular -benefit of several million of their patients -throughout the country, I would say that pressure -by an assistant exerted over the joints of -the thumb (the assistant would do better completely -to “cover” the joint, using thumbs and -fingers of both hands for this purpose), will -mitigate or quite control the pain in the incisor -and occasionally the cuspid teeth of the side corresponding -to the finger being squeezed.</p> - -<p>Never let the patient do this for himself, unless -you provide him with clamps or wide rubber -bands for the purpose, as he cannot be trusted -to make the pressures long enough or strong -enough to accomplish satisfactory results.</p> - -<p>Pressure exerted over the first or second -joint of the first finger will control pain in the -cuspid and bicuspid teeth. The second finger<span class="pagenum" title="152"><a name="Page_152" id="Page_152"></a></span> -is related to the two molars, but sometimes the -third (or ring) finger must also be employed -for this region.</p> - -<p>In other words, pressure upon the thumb, -fore-finger, middle, and ring fingers of either -hand will control correspondingly pain in the -incisors, cuspids and bicuspids and the two -molars on either side of the median line, providing -that there is no great inflammation or no -abscess in the vicinity of the corresponding -teeth.</p> - -<p>Occasionally the “control” over-laps, in which -case it is necessary to use also the finger next -to the zone finger, and in the case of wisdom -teeth, to get the best results it is sometimes advisable -to use both the third and the little finger—as -the fourth and fifth zones merge in the -head.</p> - -<p>A very successful method practiced by some -experts—particularly where extraction must be -done—is to grasp the offending tooth as near -the apex of the root as is practicable, and with -the thumb and finger make firm pressure for -three, four, or more minutes—by the watch. -This usually produces a degree of anaesthesia -lasting about one half hour, although pressure -can, if necessary, be reapplied at any time.</p> - -<p>Other dentists and oral surgeons get excellent<span class="pagenum" title="153"><a name="Page_153" id="Page_153"></a></span> -results by pressing on the “heel of the jaw”—the -point directly back of the wisdom tooth, -ponderously known as “the tuberosity of the -superior maxillary.” This produces a very complete -and lasting anaesthesia of the entire jaw -of the side affected, and permits of the painless -extraction of teeth living in the immediate -neighborhood.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a id="Fig_25"></a> -<img src="images/i_153.jpg" width="330" height="266" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p><span class="smcap">Fig. 25</span>—Pressure at I, Fig. <a href="#Fig_4">4</a>, with thumb and finger will anesthetize -both thumb zones, inasmuch as the pressure is brought directly on the -median line and to the right and left of it.</p> - -<p>Pressure at II (pressure on inferior dental and lingual nerves) will -anesthetize not only entire jaw on side compressed, but to a greater or -less extent the entire half of the body.</p> - -<p>Pressure at <i>a</i> with thumb and finger will often anesthetize that zone -sufficiently for painless extraction. Any tooth may be prepared similarly.</p> - -<p>Pressure at <i>b</i> with thumb and finger anesthetizes bicuspids and occasionally -molars.</p> - -<p>Pressure at III will aid materially in anesthetization.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>With the lower front teeth, it has been found -that to press or hold the inferior (or lower)<span class="pagenum" title="154"><a name="Page_154" id="Page_154"></a></span> -dental nerve, where it enters the ramus (or -groove) of the lower jaw, gives good anaesthesia. -Also pressure with the finger on the -inferior dental nerve, where it exits from below -the bicuspid tooth (called by doctors the -mental foramen) will usually anesthetize that -half of the jaw.</p> - -<p>Many operators, the better to “focus”, prefer -to use the blunt end of an instrument (the -handle of an excavator is excellent) upon this -inferior dental nerve.</p> - -<p>The proper application of these principles cannot -fail to be of immense value to the dentist -and oral surgeon in their daily practice. In relieving -toothache and neuralgia, in removing deposits, -in extracting teeth, and in fact in most -painful operations which dentists are called -upon to perform, this pressure technique should -prove invaluable, as many dentists are learning -every day.</p> - -<p>And further, the application of these principles -will inevitably encourage public interest -in dentistry, and will materially diminish the -sum total of pain and suffering that humanity -is called upon to endure. Indeed, it is common—and -highly gratifying—among many dentists -now using zone analgesia—to have sensitive -patients—those upon whom, because of past exhausting<span class="pagenum" title="155"><a name="Page_155" id="Page_155"></a></span> -and nerve-racking experiences, they -have always dreaded working—say “Well, Doctor, -if you never hurt me any more than you -did today I shall never again fear to come to -you.”</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a id="Fig_26"></a> -<img src="images/i_155.jpg" width="330" height="316" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p><span class="smcap">Fig. 26</span>—Pressure at IV will not only anesthetize the third and fourth -zones, but frequently also that half of the upper jaw.</p> - -<p>Pressure at V with finger covering the median line and counter pressure -with the thumb on the outside of the jaw, or even on the lip directly -opposite the finger, will usually anesthetize the incisors sufficiently for -painless extraction.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>Mothers will find this method a safe and certain -means of relieving themselves and their -children of an immense amount of pain and discomfort. -For, while they cannot, of course, -hope to possess the technical knowledge enabling -them to find and exert pressure upon the nerves<span class="pagenum" title="156"><a name="Page_156" id="Page_156"></a></span> -themselves, it is a comparatively simple matter -for them to rigidly grasp the roots of an aching -tooth between their thumb and finger, and temporarily -relieve pain—at least until they can -take little Alfred or Alice to the dentist.</p> - -<p>If this may not seem feasible, they can, by -remembering the fingers that correspond with -the particular zone it is desired to influence, do -much to relieve distressing conditions in that -zone until such time as the doctor or dentist can -be visited, by squeezing, or by applying rubber -bands around the proper fingers.</p> - -<p>For example: At a dinner party the other -night one of the guests complained of severe -pain in the right upper first molar. I told her -to squeeze firmly the joint of her second or -middle finger, which advice she considered a -very ill-timed and pointless joke. Insisting that -I was serious and helpfully disposed, she obeyed -instructions, and in a very few minutes beamed -complete relief from her dental anguish.</p> - -<p>Another instance in which toothache was relieved -in what might be called an <i>outré</i> manner -was reported by Dr. J. F. Roemer of Waukegan, -Ill., who operated with a pair of rubber bands -upon the aching teeth of a young traveling man. -Dr. Roemer writes that this man came to the -office with an extremely painful and sensitive<span class="pagenum" title="157"><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157"></a></span> -condition, chiefly affecting the incisor teeth. As -the knight of the leather bag explained it his -teeth were so “sore” that he could not eat any -solid food whatever, and he didn’t much relish -the food he drank. It was impossible for him -to close his teeth together without causing great -distress. A dentist who had examined the salesman -could find nothing wrong with the teeth, -from the dental standpoint.</p> - -<p>Dr. Roemer, however, examined him in a -characteristic zone therapy way. He searched -the patient’s fingers with a metal comb to find -out what was the matter with his teeth. This -search disclosed the presence of “spots” on the -insides of the thumb and first finger which were -acutely sensitive to pressures from the teeth of -the comb.</p> - -<p>The diagnosis established, the treatment was -simplicity itself. Commencing with light pressures -upon these sensitive areas the doctor gradually -increased the force applied to the comb, -at the same time engaging the owner of the -thumb and teeth in conversation relative to his -business, and to the political situation—this latter -a perennial source of interest-absorbing conversation -in the West.</p> - -<p>After about ten minutes of this operation the -doctor looked up and asked his victim <span class="pagenum hide" title="158"><a name="Page_158" id="Page_158"></a></span><span class="pagenum hide" title="159"><a name="Page_159" id="Page_159">159</a></span><span class="pagenum" title="160"><a name="Page_160" id="Page_160"></a></span>“how the -teeth were getting along.” After cautiously -testing their sensitiveness by means of various -biting pressures, the patient responded that -“while they were still a little ‘sore’ the pain had -entirely left.”</p> - -<p>The doctor then issued instructions as to how -to apply rubber bands in order to make the -proper pressure, which is to use one-fourth inch -bands about two inches in length, bind them -around the first joint—counting from the tip—of -the thumb and first finger, leave them on until -bluish discoloration appeared, then remove, and -re-apply after a few hours.</p> - -<p>The traveling-man reported the following day -that he had enjoyed a good night’s sleep—the -first for many nights—and after forty-eight -hours of this treatment he telephoned that all -pain and sensitiveness had completely disappeared.</p> - -<p>In neuralgia and other painful conditions of -long standing, where there are no decayed teeth—or -other dental causes for the pain—many -permanent cures have been effected by pressure -treatment. Almost it would seem that whatever -tends to reduce the pain would also help remedy -its cause, no matter how remote.</p> - -<p>As illustrating, in detail, the successful “home -treatment” of neuralgia, another case of Dr.<span class="pagenum" title="161"><a name="Page_161" id="Page_161"></a></span> -Roemer’s is most interesting. The Doctor says -“I saw recently a patient with tri-facial neuralgia -of two years’ standing. Nothing had relieved -permanently. The attack which brought him to -me was of four or five days’ duration. During -this time he had been unable to eat. Even the -attempt to speak would bring on an acute -paroxysm of pain of a sharp piercing nature, -which radiated over the entire left side of the -face, extending from the lower and the upper -jaw, and up into the left eye. These paroxysms -left him as ‘limp as a rag.’</p> - -<p>“He had been advised to have the nerve cut, -as offering the only relief for his trouble.</p> - -<p>“I applied rubber bands on the joints nearest -the tip of the thumb and forefinger of the left -hand. In less than ten minutes my patient was -talking and laughing, and we had quite a visit.</p> - -<p>“I told him nothing about what was being attempted -with the bands, so he wasn’t ‘hypnotized.’ -After we saw results, however, I instructed -him to apply the bands every half hour -if the pain continued, and as it decreased to -lengthen the interval of the applications.</p> - -<p>“When next I saw him, several days after, he -laughingly said, ‘Oh, I apply the rubbers once a -day now, as I don’t want that pain to come back.’ -He is now enjoying life better than he has for<span class="pagenum" title="162"><a name="Page_162" id="Page_162"></a></span> -years, thanks to ‘those fool rubber bands,’ as -his daughter called them.”</p> - -<p>Many dentists secure a very satisfactory degree -of analgesia—sufficient for excavating or -treatments—by compressing firmly the lip or -cheek immediately over the tooth that is to be -worked upon. (See Fig. <a href="#Fig_27">27</a>.) But as a rule, -for extraction purposes, they prefer pressure -over the roots, or directly upon the various -branches of the dental nerves. (See Figs. <a href="#Fig_25">25</a> -and 26.)</p> - -<div class="figcontainer"> -<div class="figsub" style="width: 330px; padding-top: 55px;"> -<a id="Fig_27"></a> -<img src="images/i_158.jpg" width="330" height="430" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p><span class="smcap">Fig. 27</span>—Patient anesthetizing the left jaws in the first zone, by firmly -pressing the lip directly opposite, between the thumb and index finger of -left hand, indicating the area with the right index finger.</p></div> -</div> - -<div class="figsub" style="width: 330px;"> -<a id="Fig_28"></a> -<img src="images/i_159.jpg" width="330" height="485" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p><span class="smcap">Fig. 28</span>—Stickpin firmly imbedded in a section of the anesthetized area -shown in Fig. <a href="#Fig_27">27</a>.</p></div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>One of the most significant facts in connection -with zone therapy is the intimate relation -between morbid dental conditions and pain or -even pathological changes in practically every -section of the body. It has been demonstrated -beyond a shadow of doubt, that points—or foci—of -infection within the mouth, or in the teeth, -frequently manifest disturbances most remote -from their point of origin.</p> - -<p>This is one reason why many physicians and -surgeons, using the method, make a routine -practice of sending every patient, in whom dental -disease is even suspected, for a thorough overhauling -by a competent dentist.</p> - -<p>Another reason for striving to keep all our -original teeth in their places is that nature intended -to preserve the continuity—if it may be<span class="pagenum" title="163"><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163"></a></span> -so termed—of our various nerve zones. Sound, -healthy teeth and roots in their normal occlusion, -seem to assist in the normal functioning of the -entire zone chain of which they are important -links.</p> - -<p>Asthma, congestions, headaches, neuralgia, -conditions affecting the nerves of the head or -the ears, or even partial deafness, have been materially -improved, and many times completely -cured, by the application of a galvanic cautery -around the necks of the teeth, by pressure on -the teeth themselves in the zone affected, or even -by having the patient “grind” the particular -teeth related to those areas which it is attempted -favorably to influence.</p> - -<p>In several instances, chronic frontal headaches -in children have been cured by correcting -faulty occlusion of the front teeth by that branch -of dentistry known as “Orthodontia.” When -after several months’ treatment, the teeth were -restored to their normal alignment, and continuity -of the nerve zone was re-established, the -headaches cleared up, and there has been no return -of them.</p> - -<div class="figcontainer"> -<div class="figsub" style="width: 330px; padding-top: 38px;"> -<a id="Fig_29"></a> -<img src="images/i_164.jpg" width="330" height="387" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p><span class="smcap">Fig. 29</span>—A prominent Connecticut dentist anesthetizes the entire left -half of his body through pressure on left inferior dental nerve. See following -cut.</p></div> -</div> - -<div class="figsub" style="width: 330px;"> -<a id="Fig_30"></a> -<img src="images/i_165.jpg" width="330" height="425" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p><span class="smcap">Fig. 30</span>—We might have covered the left side of the body with stick-pins -without his knowledge, as far as pain was concerned, during the -period of fifteen minutes of anesthesia which followed his pressure of one -minute with the finger on the left inferior dental nerve. Note the stick-pins -in ear, finger and leg.</p></div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>Occasionally it happens that a patient will go -to a physician who uses zone analgesia to be prepared -for the services of a dentist who doesn’t. -Only recently a man suffering from indigestion<span class="pagenum hide" title="164"><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164"></a></span><span class="pagenum hide" title="165"><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165">[Pg 165]</a></span><span class="pagenum" title="166"><a name="Page_166" id="Page_166"></a></span> -and rheumatoid arthritis (rheumatism of the -joints with progressive stiffening) was advised -by his physician to have his teeth removed, the -doctor insisting that because four wisdom teeth -were the only teeth he had that were not decayed -and completely broken down, nothing else would -cure his indigestion and rheumatism.</p> - -<p>His heart action was such that it would have -been dangerous to administer cocaine—much -less a general anesthetic.</p> - -<p>Therefore, for the removal of his 27 teeth and -stumps, the pressure method was decided upon. -His physician accompanied him to the dentist, -and doctor and dentist, for the next twenty -minutes made the proper pressures on the fingers -and on the inferior dental nerves.</p> - -<p>All the lower teeth were then removed—without -a particle of pain. Pressures were then repeated -on the fingers and the palatine nerves, -and the teeth in the upper jaw were likewise removed.</p> - -<p>Of the entire 27, only two gave much pain on -extraction, and these were most strongly attached -to the bony processes (the sockets and -attachments by which teeth are held in place). -Bleeding following this wholesale extraction -was very slight.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="167"><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167"></a></span></p> - -<p>It may be interesting to know that after the -gums had healed and the patient had worn -artificial teeth for a few months, his appetite -and digestion improved, he began to gain in -weight, and there was an almost complete relief -from the rheumatic symptoms and the joint -stiffening.</p> - -<p>In some instances physicians have applied the -pressures in their own offices, and have then -sent the patients—with rubber bands bound -tightly around their finger joints in order to -maintain the analgesic influence—to the dentist, -where their extraction or cavity preparation has -been painlessly done.</p> - -<p>And occasionally great pleasure and satisfaction -is afforded both patient and doctor when -some sufferer calls up on the ’phone at two or -three in the morning and inquires what finger -to press to relieve the pain of a certain tooth, -especially when the advice given has been followed -by relief.</p> - -<div class="figcontainer"> -<div class="figsub" style="width: 330px; padding-top: 1px;"> -<a id="Fig_31"></a> -<img src="images/i_168.jpg" width="330" height="429" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p><span class="smcap">Fig. 31</span>—Hand and arm, left eyelid and chin, decorated with stickpins -after the patient has anesthetized the left side of the body by pressure on -the left inferior dental nerve.</p></div> -</div> - -<div class="figsub" style="width: 330px;"> -<a id="Fig_32"></a> -<img src="images/i_169.jpg" width="330" height="430" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p><span class="smcap">Fig. 32</span>—A lighted match is held beneath patient’s right great toe, -anesthetized through pressure on the inner surface of the jaw in the first -zone.</p></div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>It has been for many years a quite general -piece of knowledge among dentists that the application -of menthol to the mucous membrane of -the nose, on the same side as an aching tooth, -would very frequently stop the toothache. If -dentists will now apply a slight elaboration of -this bit of zone analgesia technic they may pos<span class="pagenum hide" title="168"><a name="Page_168" id="Page_168"></a></span><span class="pagenum hide" title="169"><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">169</a></span><span class="pagenum" title="170"><a name="Page_170" id="Page_170"></a></span>sibly -save themselves many gray hairs. What -their patients will save in agony, apprehension, -and the drain on their vitality cannot be even -estimated.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" title="171"><a name="Page_171" id="Page_171"></a></span></p> - - - - -<h2>CHAPTER 17. - -<span class="title">ZONE THERAPY—FOR DOCTORS ONLY.</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>We grind and grit our teeth during -paroxysms of pain. When we bump -our shins against a rocking-chair -that has taken point of vantage directly in our -path, immediately we clasp the offended shin.</p> - -<p>In the days before the blessed era of nitrous-oxide -and local anesthetics, when the muscular -dentist leaned toward the door with our pet tooth -in the firm embrace of shiny forceps, we helped -him to the utmost by gripping the arms of the -chair with vise-like clutch. This maneuver seemingly -had no more connection with tooth extraction -than have the effulgent rays of the moon -upon the pumpkin crop. But we felt our duty, -and we did it.</p> - -<p>When fury and anger sweep us in their red -flame, and gentle, familiar aspects of nature take -on the hue of blood, we clench our fists until -the nails are driven deep into the flesh. In the -first shock of the agony of bereavement, or during -those cruel dragging hours when we are adjusting -ourselves to living with our hearts torn -asunder, we clasp our hands in frenzy.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="172"><a name="Page_172" id="Page_172"></a></span></p> - -<p>For ages we have been doing these things because -they are natural and apparently inevitable. -We did them automatically, without knowing -why. But now we know we do them because -they are instructive and scientific. We do these -things involuntarily and automatically because -they relieve pain or nerve tension—because they -produce a form of analgesia, or pain-deadening, -similar to that which follows the injection of -water or some anesthetic solution into a sensory -nerve.</p> - -<p>Six years ago I accidentally discovered that -pressure with a cotton-tipped probe on the mucocutaneous -margin (where the skin joins the mucous -membrane) of the nose gave an anesthetic result -as though a cocaine solution had been applied.</p> - -<p>I further found that there were many spots -in the nose, mouth, throat, and on both surfaces -of the tongue which, when pressed firmly, -deadened definite areas to sensation. Also, that -pressures exerted over any bony eminence, on -the hands, feet, or over the joints, produced the -same characteristic results in pain relief. I -found also that when pain was relieved, the condition -that produced the pain was most generally -relieved. This led to my “mapping out” these -various areas and their associated connections, -and also to noting the conditions influenced<span class="pagenum" title="173"><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173"></a></span> -through them. This science I have named zone -therapy. It is somewhat complicated in many -of its aspects, but I shall try and make it as -clear as may be. I would emphasize, however, -that to master it requires long study and patient -application.</p> - -<p>In zone therapy we divide the body longitudinally -into ten zones, five on each side of a -median or central line. (See Figs. <a href="#Fig_1">1</a> and 2.) -The first, second, third, fourth and fifth zones -begin in the toes and end in the thumbs and -fingers, or begin in the thumbs and fingers and -end in the toes, if you prefer it this way. For -instance, the first zone extends from the great -toe up the entire height of the body, including -the chest and the back, and down the arm into -the thumb. The other digits are related to their -particular zones, in like manner.</p> - -<p>The tongue is divided into ten zones. Pressure -on the dorsal (top) surface of the individual -zones on the tongue affect the corresponding -anterior (or front) sections of zones -everywhere throughout the body. But firm pressures -on the tongue, continued for several minutes, -affect both back and front zones. The -hard and soft palate (forming the roof of the -mouth) and the posterior walls of the pharynx -(the back of the throat) and epipharynx (where<span class="pagenum" title="174"><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174"></a></span> -the back of the nose and throat join) are divided -in the same way, and posterior pressure or contact -affects posterior sections of zones; while anterior -pressure or contact affects anterior sections -of zones. Traction (or pulling with a -hooked probe—see B, Fig. <a href="#Fig_11">11</a>) on the soft -palate in the epipharynx affects the anterior -zones, and traction on the anterior pillars of the -fauces, (pillars in front of the tonsils) affects -zones one, two, three, four and five, especially in -arms and shoulders in the posterior sections of -zones. Pressure on the anterior surface of the -lips and the anterior surface of the anterior -pillars of the fauces affects the anterior surface -of all zones. Pressure on the posterior surface -of the lower lips affects the posterior sections of -all zones.</p> - -<p>Pain in any part of the first zone may be -treated and overcome, temporarily at least, and -often permanently, by pressure on all surfaces -of the first joint of the great toe, or on the corresponding -joint of the thumb. Should the pressure -be limited to the upper surface of the great -toe, the anesthetic or analgesic effects will extend -up the front of the body to the fronto-parietal -suture—where the bones join on top of -the skull. They will also extend across the chest -and down the anterior surface of the first zone<span class="pagenum" title="175"><a name="Page_175" id="Page_175"></a></span> -of the arm and thumb, and often to the thumb -side of the index finger. Should pressure be -made on the under surface of the great toe, the -effects will extend along the first zone in the -sole of the foot and up the back of the leg, thigh, -body and head in that zone to the above-named -suture; also across the back and down the posterior -surface of the first zone of the arm and -thumb, and frequently the thumb side of the -index finger.</p> - -<p>Firm pressure on the end of the great toe or -tip of thumb will control the entire first zone. -Firm pressure on the tips of the fingers or toes -control individual zones. Lateral or side pressure -on thumbs and fingers or toes will affect -lateral or side boundaries of the zones pressed, -and also transverse extensions to nostrils, lips -and ears.</p> - -<p>A limited amount of anesthesia may often be -established by pressure over any resistant bony -surface, in any zone compressed, and often the -mere momentary contact with the galvanic -cautery, or pressure with a sharp-pointed applicator, -or with the thumb or finger-nail, will -produce the same result. Contacts, especially -with aluminum combs or pointed instruments, -may be momentary, if frequently repeated, but -protracted contacts are often necessary.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="176"><a name="Page_176" id="Page_176"></a></span></p> - -<p>Prolonged pressure with an aluminum hair -comb is fast becoming a popular method, but -similar pressures with the nails of the thumbs -and fingers are likely the method Nature intended. -Pressure with bands of elastic, metal, -cloth, or leather on the fingers, toes, wrists and -ankles, as well as on the knees and elbows, are -often useful in overcoming pain in an individual -zone or group of zones. If these pressures are -resisted by pathological processes elsewhere in -the zone or zones, pain is sometimes excited. In -other words, if there is an abscess or some -active inflammatory condition present,—as in -middle-ear trouble, pressure often aggravates or -stimulates the pain to renewed endeavors. It -usually however, overcomes the pain momentarily. -Zone pressure has, for this reason, become -a diagnostic factor of great value in -disclosing hidden pus conditions or inflammatory -processes—particularly in the roots of teeth, the -ears, appendix, ovaries, or in other organs.</p> - -<p>Pain anywhere in any zone may be overcome -more quickly by pressure with an applicator, or -with cautery contact at certain points throughout -the corresponding zone or zones in the -mouth, pharynx, epipharynx and nose; but the -finger and toe pressures may be relied upon very -often. What applies to one zone applies to all.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="177"><a name="Page_177" id="Page_177"></a></span></p> - -<p>Pressures average from one-half minute to -four minutes or longer, depending upon the susceptibility -of the patient.</p> - -<p>Heat or cold waves in varying degrees, depending -upon the solution or instruments used, -may often be dispatched to the extremities from -the mouth, nose, etc., and similar waves of heat -or cold will manifest themselves in the mouth, -nose and pharynx of susceptible individuals from -pressure or contact on the extremities. The most -susceptible patients will describe them accurately. -For instance, if a cotton tipped probe be dipped -in camphor solution, or alcohol, the patient will -describe the sensation reflected along the particular -zone pressed as “cold.” If in nitrate of -silver, or trichloracetic acid, he says it is “hot.”</p> - -<p>The majority of patients say that, while they -are unable to detect these sensations—only extra-susceptible -individuals have this faculty,—their -pain is disappearing, or has already disappeared. -Patients who are most susceptible to pressure or -contact will trace heat or cold from an individual -hair of the head, or an eyelash, to the margin of -the finger-nail or toe-nail, and if a hair or eyelash -be quickly pulled out, the sensation of numbness -is often quickly registered beneath the -finger-nail or toe-nail of the invaded zone. But<span class="pagenum" title="178"><a name="Page_178" id="Page_178"></a></span> -to give these delicate results the subjects must be -very responsive.</p> - -<p>Pressure or contact upon the occlusal, or -biting, edges of the teeth affect the innermost -parts of practically every bone in the body. We -believe that the teeth, being the most accessible, -are the natural guardians of the bones throughout -the body. The heat waves from the application -of a fine point cautery contact on the biting -edges of the teeth, are dispatched through the -centers of all bones, and their therapeutic, or -curative effect is disseminated through the bones -and tissue in the zones treated. Naturally, the -therapeutic effect is less marked as the surface -of the body is approached.</p> - -<p>Pressure or contact on the anterior surface of -the teeth affects the anterior surface of the bones -in the anterior sections of bones, and to a greater -or less extent the tissues of the same zones in the -corresponding sections. Pressure or contact on -the posterior surface of the teeth affect the posterior -surface of the bones in the posterior sections -of zones treated, and to a greater or less -extent the tissues of the same zones in the corresponding -sections.</p> - -<p>An asset not generally recognized in normal -occlusion of a natural set of teeth is the ability -of the patient to relax practically every part of<span class="pagenum" title="179"><a name="Page_179" id="Page_179"></a></span> -the body through firm, biting pressure for two -or three minutes on all surfaces of the upper and -lower teeth. In this manner pain may frequently -be relieved in any section of a zone, or group of -zones, throughout the body, and occasionally -even anesthesia may be induced through firm -occlusion of the teeth for two or three minutes -in these zones. This is at least one reason why -all the teeth should be preserved, if at all possible, -and why normal occlusion should be brought -about if it does not already exist. If one be deprived -of the third molar teeth, for instance, his -ability to prevent, relieve or overcome pathological -conditions in the fourth and fifth zones -is restricted; and this naturally applies to the -various individual zones or group of zones where -teeth have been extracted.</p> - -<p>You would hardly believe that offending corns -or warts or bitten finger-nails, where inflammatory -processes have been excited, may be responsible -for rheumatism or neuritis, but we are daily -proving such to be the case.</p> - -<p>Toe-nails and finger-nails must be respected -and as well taken care of, for health’s sake, as -any other section of the individual zones. There -is not a section of a finger-nail or toe-nail that -may not affect (under stimulation or pressure) -the most distant parts of the body.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="180"><a name="Page_180" id="Page_180"></a></span></p> - -<p>Also, it might be of interest here to note that -while enough pressure is good, too much is mild -murder. This can be testified to by all who, by -means of new shoes, foolishly apply constricting -pressures to their toes. There ensues, after the -lapse of an appreciable length of time, a condition -made up of equal parts of bodily weakness -and nervous irritability—an actual physical and -spiritual fatigue—relieved only by removing the -pressure—in other words, by relieving zone pressure -inhibition.</p> - -<p>Tight belts, corsets, or collars will develop -similar, or even worse, effects, inasmuch as their -influence embraces not only the undue irritation -of the nerve zones, but also the constricting influences -upon glands, blood vessels and internal -organs.</p> - -<p>All zones must be free from irritation and -obstructions to get the best results. For instance, -if there be pain in the head, chest, abdomen, or -extremities in one or more zones, it may be relieved -or quite overcome by pressure on resistant -surfaces anywhere in the zones affected. If the -pain be relieved for a few moments only, and -repeated pressures do not overcome it, it is safe -to assume that the pain is due to some abnormal -pressure or irritation, as gas, pus, impactions, -necrosis, etc., somewhere in a zone or group of<span class="pagenum" title="181"><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181"></a></span> -zones, which demands medical or surgical interference.</p> - -<p>We are repeatedly called upon for the theory -of zone therapy. Many theories are interesting -but not conclusive, and rather than be obliged -to retract theories, we are not going to advance -them, except very superficially, at the expense of -clinical facts. It is certain that control-centers -in the medulla are stimulated, as has been suggested, -but I believe that it is shock more often -than stimulation. Some theorists have pointed -out, perhaps rightly, that “these functions may -be carried out by the pituitary body (a ductless -gland at the base of the brain) through the -multiple nerve paths from it.”</p> - -<p>We know that we induce a state of inhibition—a -state which prevents the transmission of the -nerve impulse from the brain—throughout the -zone where pressure is brought to bear. We -know that when this inhibition of irritation is -continuous, many pathological processes disappear. -We are certain that lymphatic relaxation -follows pressure, and the lymph stimulated to -flow normally in its channels.</p> - -<p>The theory advanced by Dr. Bowers: “that -inasmuch as there are ultra-microscopic bacteria—bacteria -not seen through even the highest-powered -lenses,—it is more than likely that in -the light of this work there are ultra-microscopic<span class="pagenum" title="182"><a name="Page_182" id="Page_182"></a></span> -connections analogous to those we call -nerves,” may contain some elements of plausibility.</p> - -<p>Let the physician or the dentist, who ascribes -these phenomena to suggestion, attempt to relieve -an aching, left incisor, for instance, by -pressing the little finger of the right hand of his -patient, or exercise his persuasive powers on a -throbbing molar by pressing the thumb of either -hand. He will find himself up against a stone -wall, so far as results are concerned, for only by -exerting proper pressure, on the proper zone or -zones, for an adequate length of time, will the -pain disappear. Anticipating such contentions, -and to avoid the merest hint at suggestion, we -have purposely refrained from giving many -patients any idea that we were even contemplating -the relief of pain, and the first and only -suggestions have been from the patient. He -will tell that he experienced pain in his jaw, eye, -small of back, knee, foot, or shoulder before pressure -was made on his fingers, teeth, or elsewhere, -and will ask, “where has the pain gone? -Have you done anything to relieve it?”</p> - -<p>Pathological conditions from irritation in the -nose, epipharynx, pharynx, mouth, vagina, rectum, -etc., may be responsible not only for annoying -local manifestations, but for obscure<span class="pagenum" title="183"><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183"></a></span> -pathological changes in the most remote sections -of the body; and their course can usually be -traced through an individual zone or group of -zones. There is not an existing pathological -condition that cannot at least be relieved, and a -large proportion can be cured by zone therapy.</p> - -<p>This shows how necessary it is that the physician -and surgeon should be capable of diagnosing -and treating disease in all parts of the body, -especially if his practice be limited to the country, -where he may be unable to consult with -specialists. If the pathological condition he has -treated does not “clear up,” the case should be -referred to the specialist or dentists, for, to -secure results, all parts of the zones or group of -zones must be free from obstruction and irritation.</p> - -<p>Zone therapy demonstrates the co-relation of -all parts of the body, also the manner in which -pressure or contact upon certain zones is effective -in the relief of pain or disease.</p> - -<p>Diagnosis of the cause of pain may be worked -out quite perfectly over or through any zone or -part of zone. If a patient complains of pain, -and indicates that the right eye is involved, and -you overcome the pain by pressure on the front -of the right index finger, it is absolutely certain -that his disturbance is excited by congestion or<span class="pagenum" title="184"><a name="Page_184" id="Page_184"></a></span> -irritation in the anterior section of the zone; but -if it be necessary to look to the palmar surface -of the index finger for relief the cause is certain -to exist in the posterior section of the zone or -zones.</p> - -<p>We have never suggested this work as a -panacea, but finding it helpful in the treatment -of human ills, we consider it an asset to our -knowledge of medicine and surgery, and have -been glad to offer it gratuitously to physicians, -surgeons, and dentists, and to all who can make -use of it in the relief of afflicted humanity.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" title="185"><a name="Page_185" id="Page_185"></a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/i_185.jpg" width="500" height="455" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p class="tac"><b>Valens Metronomic Interrupter</b> (Style D)<br /> - -(For Producing Dr. White’s Pulsoidal Current)</p> - -<p class="tac"><span class="smcap">Fig. 33.</span></p></div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" title="186"><a name="Page_186" id="Page_186"></a></span></p> - - - - -<h2>CHAPTER 18. - -<span class="title">FOOD FOR THOUGHT.</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>When “Professor” Robert Fitzsimmons -delivered the famous punch in the -solar plexus that laid the mighty -James Corbett upon whatever it is they cover a -boxing ring with, he demonstrated to everybody’s -satisfaction—except perhaps Mr. Corbett’s—that -there is a group of nerves in the “pit of the -stomach” which has an intimate and most distressful -connection with the brain. And now -every doctor knows the functions and connections -of the pneumogastric nerve.</p> - -<p>Gunmen, pugilists, and “bouncers” also know -that if the temple, or the angle of the jaw, be -even lightly “tapped,” the tappee is usually -placed hors de combat for an appreciable period -of time. General knowledge of this weighty -academic subject is comparatively recent—as -time is reckoned.</p> - -<p>And the Japs, in their uncanny knowledge of -nerve anatomy, exemplified in their proficiency -in jui jitsu, have shown that, by pressure upon -certain nerve terminals, or upon plexuses of<span class="pagenum" title="187"><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187"></a></span> -nerve groups they are able to do almost everything -except murder a victim. Perhaps they -could do this, also, if they were sufficiently industrious -and persevering.</p> - -<p>Indeed, for many years they have been aware -that there are certain nerve centers in the neck -and under the angle of the jaw, pressure upon -which will temporarily suspend consciousness. -In fact, their methods were tried by surgeons, -prior to the discovery of anesthesia; but were -discarded, owing to the fact that no one could -guarantee that the patients would wake again -after the operation.</p> - -<p>Also, as showing how great oaks from little -acorns grow, and how mickle and mickle makes -muckle. Professor William Halstead, more than -a dozen years ago, was operating upon a man -with a rupture—under cocaine anesthesia, as he -thought. It was found, however, after the operation -had been painlessly completed, that the -moon-stricken assistant, had forgotten to put the -cocaine tablet in the syringe.</p> - -<p>So that all the anesthetic the patient got was -sterile water. However, this was enough, for -the pressure of the water injection into the parts, -had blocked the nerve tract, and inhibited the -transmission of the message of pain.</p> - -<p>This experience may or may not have given<span class="pagenum" title="188"><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188"></a></span> -Dr. Crile the clue to his interesting and vastly -important discovery of “nerve block,” but, in any -event, we learned something new about the -human body. But—and this is the point I wish -to emphasize—we are not through learning -about it yet.</p> - -<p>So, if some time a doctor tells you that a -woman of sixty-nine, suffering for years from -one-sided paralysis, made pressures twice daily -with an aluminum comb on the top (or front) -of the hand, favoring the thumb side—and in -two weeks noticed a decided improvement, and -after five months can now lift her foot free from -the floor and walk without a cane, don’t sneer.</p> - -<p>If another tells you that a case of infantile -paralysis, of five years’ standing—after several -months’ treatment with a probe on the back wall -of the pharynx, can now kick as high as his -shoulder with either foot, don’t scoff. For that -doctor has photos of the boy, showing him in the -act of doing just this identical thing.</p> - -<p>It may also be that catarrhal appendicitis is -helped. For in unorthodox ways three cases of -catarrhal appendicitis were apparently cured by -pressures exerted with a comb over the first, -second and third finger, and carried up as far as -the wrist. These cases were diagnosed as -catarrhal appendicitis by several competent<span class="pagenum" title="189"><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189"></a></span> -medical men. They showed all the classical -symptoms, including pain on pressure over McBurney’s -point, vomiting, and digestive disturbances. -They were treated three times daily -for several days, and in the interim, treated -themselves at home along the same lines. In ten -days to two weeks, there was an apparent cure -of all three cases. And now, after six months, -there has been no return of the condition.</p> - -<p>And, speaking of appendicitis, it is interesting -to note that if pain is relieved by zone pressure, -and returns after a short time, we can be morally -certain that there is pus present, and that the -case demands immediate operation. This same -thing, as we before observed, applies to abscesses -in the ear, teeth, tonsil, or anywhere else.</p> - -<p>The injunction to “prove all things and hold -fast to that which is true,” is as applicable and -pertinent today as it was when first dropped -from the lips of the old sage. So, if some time -your progressive doctor should tell you to rub -your finger nails together, and scratch the front -of your hands and arms, and thereby cure falling -hair, don’t laugh—because he may be repeating -to you only what numbers of his patients -have told him they did—and stopped their hair -from leaving its moorings.</p> - -<p>Also, if he tells you to use a wire brush on the<span class="pagenum" title="190"><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190"></a></span> -front and back of the hand, and also press with -the aluminum comb on the palms of the hand, to -cure cold feet, he may not be nearly as crazy as -he sounds. He may be merely a little ahead of -your time, as were Harvey, Semmelweis, Horace -Wells, Lister, and hundreds of others, who have -suffered the slings and arrows of ridicule.</p> - -<p>And so, we who believe in zone therapy now -understand why we grind our teeth. It is because -the action relieves nerve tension, and -diminishes the pain in all the zones of the body -connected by those invisible and as yet undiscovered -nervous wires strung through the telegraph -poles of the teeth.</p> - -<p>When we grab our bruised shins we check the -transmission of pain in the irritated nerve trunk -lines of that zone. When we grasp the arm of -the dental chair, and hang on like grim death, -we are unconsciously going through motions -that, if continued long enough, would have made -our trial comparatively painless. The only fault -in our preparation for the ordeal was that we -should have started our pressure grip three or -four minutes earlier. But our intentions were -good.</p> - -<p>When automatically we clench our fists in -furious anger, we are relieving our terrific -nervous excitation, and thereby perhaps preventing<span class="pagenum" title="191"><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191"></a></span> -the bursting of a blood vessel. When -we clasp the hands of one sorely stricken and in -the throes of despair, we are, in addition to -supplying him with comforting magnetism and -physical solace, producing a distinctly analgesic -and quieting effect upon his entire nervous -system.</p> - -<p>And when we clasp our hands or press the -fingers tightly together in supplication, we are -ministering to over-wrought nerves, and thereby -perhaps bringing ourselves into closer harmony -with the great Cosmic Force that envelopes -us all in a mantle of kindness and love.</p> - - -<p class="tac mt3em">[CONCLUSION.]</p> - -<div class="transnote mt3em"> -<a id="Spelling_inconsistencies"></a> -<p>Return to <a href="#Transcribers_notes">transcriber’s notes</a></p> - -<p><b>Spelling corrections</b>:<br /> -exopthalmic → exophthalmic<br /> -opthalmic → ophthalmic<br /> -pres-pressure → pressure<br /> -of → or<br /> -whatosever → whatsoever<br /> -flniching → flinching<br /> -mucus membrane → mucous membrane<br /> -mucos membrane → mucous membrane<br /> -miscroscopic → microscopic<br /> -nitrous oxid → nitrous oxide<br /> -mucocutaneus → mucocutaneous<br /> -it → is<br /> -cocain → cocaine<br /> -lumbag → lumbago</p> - -<p><b>Spelling inconsistencies</b>:<br /> -thoro/thorough<br /> -thoroly/thoroughly<br /> -tonsilitis/tonsillitis<br /> -Fitzgerald/FitzGerald<br /> -thru/through<br /> -altho/although<br /> -technic/technique<br /> -pyorrhea/pyorrhoea</p> -</div> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Zone Therapy, by -William H. 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