Z O N E T H E RA PY

R E LI E V I N G P A I N A T H O ME

WM H . .
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F ITZ GE R A LD, M D . .

AND

E DWI N F f B O WE R S , M D
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A u th or of S d e S te ing Ill H ea l th
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A l coh o l u
I ts I n fl e n ce on M in d and B od y,
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etc .

C O LUM B US , O H I O
I . W LO N G
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P b lish er
1917
 CO NT E NT S .

C H A PT E R I .

R e l ie v in g P ain b y P ress u re

C H A P T ER I I .

Th at A ching H e ad

C H APTER II I .

C u rin g G oi t re W ith a P r ob e
C H A P T ER I V
F in g er S q u ee z in g for E y e T r ou b l es

C H A P T ER V .

M ak in g th e D e af H e ar

C H A P T ER V I .

Pa in l ess Ch i l d B i r th

C H A P T ER V I I .

Z one Th er ap y for W omen

C H A P T ER V I I I .

R e l ax in g N er v ou s T ensi on

C H A PT E R IX .

C u rin g L u mb ag o w i th a C omb

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4 CO N T E N T S .

C H A P T ER X .

Sc ratc h i ng th e H an d for S i ck S t oma ch

C H A P T ER X I .

Il a v F e v e r A , sth ma an d T on si ll i tis

C H A P T ER X I I .

C u rin g 3 S i ck Voi c e

C H A P T ER X I I I .

A S pec i fi c for and O th er C ou gh s .

C H A P TER X I V
H ow a P ha n t om T u mor w as D issi p at ed

C H A P T E R XV .

Dr , E x p erien c e

C H A P T E R XV I .

Z on e T herapy for D en tis t s O n l y

C H A P T E R XV I I
Z one Th erapy —for D oc tors O nlv
.

C H A P T ER XV I I I .

F ood for Th ou ght

 I N T R O D U CT I O N

H O USA N DS o f li v es are l o st a n nually

fr o m diseases which c o uld ha v e b ee n
pre v e n ted H undreds o f th o usa n ds
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,

b ecause o f s o me pre v enta b le ailment which ,

partially o r t otally incapacitates them are t o day ,

li v ing o nly a small part of their li v es M illi on s .

of d o llar s yearly are squandered o n medici n es ,

d o ct o rs a n d u n dertakers much of which might

ha v e b een sa v ed b y a right kn o wledge o f the laws
o f health a n d hygiene .

E v e n am on g the c o m f o rta b ly situat ed o r e v en ,

well to d o r ob ust v ig o r o us health is the rare s t

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o f p o ssessi o ns T he m o s t rugged l oo king o n

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b ei n g cl o sely a n d sympathe t ically ca t echi s ed will ,

”
admit t o a t ou ch of rheumatism ; a c hr on i c
“

st omach li v er o r kidney t r o u b le ; n er vo us n ess

, , ,

headaches neuralgia c on stipati o n o r s o mething

, , ,

that tends t o pre v e n t his attaining c o mpletest

physical p o wer and mental e fficiency A nd the .

weaker se x m o re than j us t i fy t hei r descripti v e

adj ecti v e Fo r 80 % of th o se not di rec t ly u n der
.

a physician s care o r taking s o me medi c ine or

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f o rm of t reatme n t for s omething sh ould b e ,

.

C o nditi o ns are impr ov ing h owe v er T here , .

is a dawn of h o pe for humanity F or g o od .

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6 I N T R O D UC TI O N .

health is b eing made a fetish I t is b ec om ing a .

go spel — a g o spel preached in sch oo ls news ,

papers maga z ines churches and theat res A c

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.

c u rate kn o wledge c oncer n i n g sanitat i o n se x ,

Ol o gy f oo d cl o thi n g ex ercise sleepi n g resting

, , , , , ,

and all hygienic m easures is b ec o mi n g m o re and

.

m o re widely dis seminated .

H uma n ity is a w akening t o the fact that sick

n ess in a large percentage o f cases is an err o r
, ,

o f bo dy a n d mi n d I gn orance Of the inj u r

.

i o us e ffects o f wr o ng f oo ds dri n ks ha b it s and

, ,

m eth o ds is gradually b eing ov erc ome .

Fo rem o st am on g th o se engaged in educating

the pub lic away fr om paths Of ign o rance and ,

t he disast r o us c o nsequences Of this ig no rance is ,

t he medical fraternity T he n ob lest and m o st

.

sel f sacrifi cing pr o fessi on on earth i s the o ne

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mo s t i n dus t ri o usly e n gaged in sawing the b ra n ch

b e t ween i t sel f and t he t ree O f F i n ancial Gai n .

T he d o c to r is the philan t hr o pist m o s t impres

s1 v ely empl oyed i n killi n g the geese that lay his

go lde n eggs with on e hand while he cut s his ,

p o cke t boo k s j u gular v ein with the o ther

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Fo r he ca t ches a n d segregates c o nstruct ing

pris o ns f o r t hem i f necessary
,
— all cases or ,

e v e n suspec t ed c ases o f c ont agi ou s diseas e ,

disease which i f per m i t ted to s pread b r o adcast

, .

w o uld net hi m a h o rd e O f d u c a t s .
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H e sees to i t tha t no i n fe c ti o us dis o rder s are

imp o r t ed int o the c oun t ry — the spreading O f
which w ou ld gi v e him much practice H e t races .

e v ery typh o id case t o it s ulti m ate dir t y b arn o r ,

infected water supply and c o u n t s that day well

,

spe n t wh o se l o w declini n g su n has s ee n him

s tamp o ut a p o ssi b le typh o id epidemic a t i t s
s o urc e
H e v accina t es all — willing and unwilling
lest he b e kep t h o rri b ly b usy atte n di ng a h u ge
army Of small p ox pa t ient s
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H e inst ructs glutt o ns and o thers a s t o the

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gra v e dangers o f ov ereating o r Of eating th e

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right f oo d a t the wr o ng time .

H e teaches m o thers t o st erili z e their b a b ies ’

bo t t les and there b y keep the b ugs o f war at b ay

,
.

H e thunders ag ainst e x p o s u re against spi t ting ,

in o r o n p ub lic places ; he has H eal t h O rdina n ces

passed c ov ering e v ery c o ncei v a b le me t h od
,

where b y disease might de v el o p .

U nt iringly and with o ut intermi ssi o n — ex

cept during a few Of the w o rst b li zz ards — he
inculcates the d o ctrines of flies in thei r rela t i o n ,

to fi n gers and fi lth and hurls P h illip ics agai n s t

,

m osquit oes t icks and the i n sec t w o rld ge n erally

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— not f orgetting b ed b ugs lice a n d ot her

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disease b reeding v ermin

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H e e xto ls the b e n efi t s of b athi ng t he rich re ,

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wards O f fre s h ai r e x ercise and th e relie f O f

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c onstipa t i o n .

I n fact he t ake s p ride in d o i n g all t ha t within

,

him lies in o rd e r to teach the w o rld t o d o with o ut

,

hi m.

T hanks t o d o c to r s we are learning a bo u t

,

plu mb ing and p os ture m asticati o n and measles , ,

o u t d oo rs deep b reathing p o is o ns and p o ise We

, ,
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are fi n di n g o ut what b ad t ee t h d o t o goo d health ,

h o w t o w o rk play and sleep s o as t o get the

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grea t es t physical goo d fr o m each .

We are warned against ov erweight alc o h o l , ,

c ommon c o lds and tob ac c o a n d the e v il p ossib il ,

i t ies in m arrying o ne s c o usin — or s o me one

’

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else s c ou si n w ho has or has had s y phili s fee b le
, , ,

mi n dedne s s a drunken ancest ry epilepsy o r

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s o me t e n de n cy to hark b ack and re v ert to
“

type ”
— as did M endel s b ea n s o r the b lack ’

A n dal u sian pulle t s .

T he su b j ect of li fe and health c o nse r v ati o n i s

”
in t he air O nly recen t ly a president Of the
.

A m eri c an M edi c al A s s o c ia t i o n made t his t heme

t he s u bj ec t O f his i n a u gu ral address H ardly a .

m edical j o ur n al but ha s one or mo re articles de

vot ed to i t i n each i ss u e We are b ei n g speci .

fi cally inst ruc t ed i n h o w to a vo id disease .

N o w h o we v er w e are to learn h o w in m a n y
, , ,

i ns t a n ces disea s es m any of them m os t gra v e and

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li fe sh o r t eni n g may b e cured T hi s b y mea s

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,

ures which c o nflict with n o o ther f o r m o f t reat

me n t and s o s i m ple a s alm o s t t o a p pear rid icu l
,

o u s Fo r D r Willia m H F itz G erald the dis

. . .
,

c ov erer o f zon e t herapy is t o t ell us h o w he ,

instruct s his patien t s under his guidance and,

directi o n to cure themsel v es

, .

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D r F itz G erald s p o siti o n is one that c o mmands

.

respect H e is a graduate O f the U ni v ersi t y o f

.

V erm o n t a n d spe nt tw o and a hal f years i n the

,

Bo s to n C ity Ho spital H e ser v ed t w o years in

.

the C en t ral L o nd o n N o se a n d T hr o at Ho spital .

F or a like peri o d he was in V ien n a where he ,

wa s assista nt to P r o fess o r P o li tz er a n d P r o fess o r

O tto C hiari wh o are k no w n where v er m edical
,

te xt boo ks are read

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Fo r se v eral years D r F itz G erald has b ee n t he

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seni o r no se and t hr oat surge on of S t F ra n ci s .

Ho spital in H art f ord and is an acti v e mem b er

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of m o st o f the A merican medical s o ciet ies .

I ha v e kn o wn D r F itz G erald f o r many years

. .

H e i s a b le and h o nest a skillful a n d c o mpe t en t

,

surge on a n d a s t udent N O ma t ter how f oo li s h

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h o w ridicul o us his meth o ds may see m t h e y are ,

m os t decidedly not t he v ap o rings o f a dreamer

or a charlatan T hey are t he calmly digested
.

fi ndings of a trained sci ent i fic mi n d .

A n d s o D r F itz Gerald is t o gi v e us speci fi c

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10 I N T R O D UC T I O N .

de t ail s o f on e O f the mo s t w on der ful a n d p er p le x

i n g t hi n g s c onn ec t ed wi t h the art O f m edici n e .

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T hi s b ecau s e a phy s icia n s pre m i s e is t o teach
,

a s well as heal B ecause pu b lici t y c on cer n i n g

.

t he p re v e n ti on a n d cure o f disease is a du t y he
o wes m ankind :not as an alt ruis t b u t as a hu m an ,

b ei n g .

E DW I N F B O W E R s M D , . .

S ep t
 P U BLI S H ER S NOT E
’
.

H E c hap t ers c o mpri si n g t hi s boo k were

fi rs t pu b lished as sp e cial ar t i c les i n the
”
As s o cia t ed S unday M aga z i n es and ,
”
E v ery W e ek . A cc o mpanyi n g t he i nt r o duc to ry
ar t icle was t hi s c o mme nt b y M r B r u c e B ar ton .
,

the a b le and c ri t ical edi to r Of t h e se M aga z i n es .

I t e x plai n s i t s el f
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Fo r al mo s t a year D r Bo w e r s has b ee n
.

urging me to pu b lish t hi s ar t i c l e on D r F i tz .

G erald s r em arka b le system o f h e ali n g k no w n a s

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zo ne therapy F ra n kly I c o uld not b elie v e w ha t

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,

was c lai m ed for zo ne t herapy nor did I t hi n k ,

t ha t we c ou ld ge t m aga z ine read e r s to b elie ve i t .

F inally a few mont hs ag o I we nt to H ar t f o rd

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unann o unc e d a n d spen t a day i n D r F i tz

, .

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G erald s O ffi c e s .I saw patie nt s wh o had b ee n
cured o f go i t er ; I saw thr o a t a n d e ar t r o u b les
immedia te ly r e li e v ed by zo ne t h e rapy ; I s aw a
n asal o perati on per f o rmed with out a n y a n es t he t ic
wha t e v er ; and i n a den t i s t s O fii ce’ ’
t ee t h e x
t rac t ed with o u t any a n es t he t ic ex c ep t t he anal
g e s ic influen c e o f zo ne t herapy A f t erward
. I
wr ot e to a bo u t fi f t y prac t i s i n g phy s ician s in
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P u B LI S H E Rs .

v ari o us part s o f the c o untry wh o ha v e heard o f

zo ne therapy and are usi n g it for the relief Of
all ki n ds o f case s e v en to allay the pains o f
,

child b irth T heir letters are o n file in my O ffice

. .

T his fi r s t art icle will b e f o ll o wed by a num b e r

o f ot hers in w hich D r B o wers will e x plain the
.

applica t i on Of zo ne therapy to t he v ari o us c o m

m o n ailme nt s I ant icipate criticism regarding
.

these ar t icles fr o m tw o s o urces : fi rs t fr o m a ,

small p ercentage Of physicians ; sec o nd fr o m ,

pe o ple wh o will at t empt to use zon e t herapy with

o u t s uccess We ha v e c o nsidered t his cri t icism
.

in ad v ance and are prepared t o disregard i t I f

,
.

the articles ser v e to reduce the su fferings of

pe o p le in den t is t s chairs e v en ten per cen t i f
’

t h e y will help in e v en the sl ightest way to rel ie v e

t he c ommon pains Of e v ery day li fe t hey will b e
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am p ly j us t ifi ed .

We d o not kn o w t he full e x plana t i o n o f zo ne

therapy ; b u t we d o kn o w tha t a grea t many
pe o ple ha v e b een helped b y i t and tha t nob od v
,

can p o ssi b ly b e har m ed .

T H E E DIT O R .
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D ag am o f A nterior Z ones o n o n e s de of the bod i y
t ri l ft i
.

y
Bo h g ht a n d e s des o f the bod are the sa m e
u r li r r
.

E ac h n m b e e d n e e p e s e n ts the center of i ts r e s p ecti x e z on e

on t ri r rt
the a n e o p a o f t he bod y
u r f lt t r r ll
.

T he ton g e ha d an d s o t p a a e p os e i o w a of the nas o

h ry r h ry i rg
, ,

p a d
nx an d
o op h g a nx an t e e n e ra t v e o an s a re i n te n
z fi h id li
,

o n es , v e on f h m d
e ac s e o t e e i an ne .

T h m dd l e i Z e 4 ear is i n one

u hi tu b d m ddl
.

Th e e s ta c an mb
e d an Z i e ea r co i ne ar e in one s 3
an d 4
u rf f h t g u t ri r z
.

Th h
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e u p p er s ace o t e on e is i n t e an e o on es.

Th t h e eet h r ti z
a re in t i di t d b
e i
e s p ec v e on es as n ca e y p ass n ga
h ne
a r t ri r
n te o-p o s e ly t h r h r t
o i z u t e es p e c v e on es .

Th i r e v h z
sc e a ar e r r t d b li p
in t e on es as ep es en e y a ne asse d
t r p t ri rly t h h r t i z
a n e o- os e o ru t e es p ec v e on es.
 D agi r a m of Posterior Zones on on e s ide of the b od y .

t i g ht d l ft i d f h b dy
Bo h r h an m e s es o t e o ar e t e sa e.

E h u mb r d l i ac r r t h
n t f
e e r ti ne ep ese n s t e cen er o i ts esp ec v e

z h t ri r rt f h b dy
on e o n t e p os e o pa o t e o .

Th u d r rf e f h t n e u h t ri r
su ace o t e on g e is i n t e p os e o z on e.

F IG —P t r i r i
. 2 . i l l t r ti i di id l
os e o v ew I w i ll b
, us a ng n v ua z on es. t e

r d t h t w h i mm l l l d h b k f h h d i r ll
se v e a at s co on y ca e t e ac o t e an s ea y
f r t f t h t m mb r w h r
on o a e h p l m f h h d rr p d
e ,
e eas t e a o t e an co es on s to
l
so e of th e foot .
 C H A P T ER I .

RE L I E V I N G PA I N BY P R E S S U RE .

O illustra to r w o uld e v er t hi n k O f draw

i n g a p ic t ure o f a bo y wi t h a gree n
a p ple c o lic unless he represe nt ed t ha t
,

boy w ith bot h ha n d s clasped fer v ently ov er t he

sea t O f war N o r w o uld he p ic t ure a pain any
.

where else wi t hou t sh o wi n g t he a tt empt s m ade

,

to relie v e thi s p ai n Fo r no on e w o uld b elie v e

.

his illus t ra t i on s i f he om i tt ed t hese de t ail s

, .

N o w while we kn o w t he fac t o f pain relie f

, ,

t hr ou gh laying o n o f the hands o r b y ki n dred ,

me asures we kn o w o nly a par t o f i t s rea s on

,

for o pera t i on T here are s e v eral o f t hese

. .

T hey are fi r s t the s oot hing infl u ence o f a n i m al

, ,

magne t ism e x p erienced whe n we t enderly i f not

, ,

l ov ingly ru b t he b ump accum u la t ed in t he dark

, ,

o f t he m oo n by c o llisi on wi t h a t all b r un e tt e
,

side bo ard o r a d oo r carel e ss ly le f t aj ar I t

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d o es s oot he T hi s w e k no w
. .

N e xt t he ma n ip u la t i on O f t h e hand ove r t he
,

i n j ured place t e n d s to pr e v ent a c on di t i on o f

v e no us s t a s i s a s t a te i n whic h t h e i n j u r e d s ur
face v eins da m b ack t he fl o w O f b l oo d a n d p r o ,

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16 Z O NE T H E R A PY .

duce t hat lurid disc o l o ra t i on k no wn eu phoneou sly

“ ”
as b lack a n d b l ue .

A ls o p ressure applied ov er t he sea t O f i n j ury

,

pr o duce s wha t D r G e o rge W C rile O f C le v e

. .
,
“ ” ”
land calls b l o cked sh o ck o r n er v e b l o ck
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,

which means t ha t by pressing on t h e ner v e s r u n

n i n g fr o m t he inj u red par t to t he b rai n area we
inhi b i t o r pr ev e nt t he t ra n s mi s si on to t he b rain
t he kn o wledge of inj ury I n ot her w o rds th e .
,

h ur t place can t te ll the cen t ra l t e legraph s t a t ion

’

anything a b ou t the acciden t b ecause the wires ,

are d o wn .

D r C rile a n d surge o n s ge n erally now utili z e

.
, ,

t hi s kn o wledge to pre v en t sh ock during Oper

ations b y inj ec t ing c o cain
,
or s o me anes t he t ic
,

s o lu t i on ar o und the c o urse O f the ner v e t runk

leading fr o m t he place t o b e Opera t ed up o n to
t he b rain .

B u t t here is ye t an other reas o n which we ,

ha v e f o und o u t o nly yes t erday A nd t his is zo ne .

analgesia P ressure ov er any bo ny eminence in

.

j ured o r pressure appl ied up o n t he zo nes c o rre

,

sp ond ing to t he l o ca t i o n o f t he inj ury w ill t end ,

to relie v e pain .

A nd n ot on ly will i t relie v e pain b ut i f the ,

pressure is s t r o ng e no ugh and l o ng en o ugh i t

will frequen t ly pr o duce a n analgesia o r insensi ,

b ility to pai n o r e v e n a c o ndi t i on o f a n es t hesia

,
18 Z O N E T H E R A PY .

FIG . 3 . tr ti
I llus a ng t
me hod of a p ply i t ri r
n g an e o an d p ost e ri r r
o p ess u r e

t o th e fi ng e rj i t
on .
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he had the right fi nger in the wr o ng grip T he .

d oct o r was ad v ised to press t he sides o f the

fi nger ( S ee F ig ins t ead O f the t o p a n d b ot
.

tom T his was d o ne and the pain di sappeared

.
,

i n tw o minu t es .

T his pressure therapy has an ad v an t age ov er

any o ther meth o d o f pain relie f inasmuch as i t ,

has b een pr ov ed tha t in c o nt radistinc t i o n to

,

o pia t es when zo ne pres s ure relie v es pain it like

,

w i se t ends to rem ov e the cause of th e pain n o ,

ma tt er where t his cause o rigina t es A n d t hi s .

in c o ndit i o ns where seem ingly one w o uld n ot

e x pec t to secure any t herapeu t ic or curati v e , ,

resul t s.

Fo r instance I recall a case o f b reast t um o r

, ,

with t w o fairly goo d si z ed n odes as large as

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h o rse chestnut s T his lady had made arrange

.

men t s t o b e o perated up on b y a pr ominen t sur

ge o n in H ar t f o rd b ut had p ostp oned her o pera
,

ti o n a few weeks o n acc o un t of the h o lidays .

M ean t ime she had b een ins t ruc t ed to make

pressures w ith a t ongue depress or and wi t h
elast ic b ands ( S ee F igures 1 7 and S ) f o r the ,

relie f o f the b reast pain — which relief by t he ,

w ay was q uite c omplet e

,
A f t er a few weeks.
,

t his lad v returned to her surge on for fur t her e x

aminati on and to c omple t e arrangements f o r
o pera t i o n U p o n e x amining h owe v er the sur
.
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20 ZO NE T H E R A PY .

FIG . 4
. Illus tr ti
a ng me th od of a p pl i
y ng la t r l pr
e a ess u r e to th e fi ng er
i t
jo n .
 RE L I E V I N G PA I N BY P R E SSU R E . 21

geon f o und t h e g r o wth so r e d u c ed in s i ze t ha t

he e x pr essed hi m s elf as unwilli ng to Opera te a s ,

he s aw no ne c e s si t y for o p e ra t i n g T he tumo r .

ha s s i n ce c om p le te ly disappeared — u n der t h e s e
ton gue pressur e t reatments T his pa t ie nt a n d .
,

t he n ame Of th e s u rge o n w ho s aw her be f o r e “

”
a n d a f t er are a t t he disp o s al O f any phy s i c ia n
,

wh o m ay regard t his plain un v ar n i shed t al e a s

a n O ld wi v e s chr on icle
’

A s mall u te rine fi b r o id m ade a similar ha p py

e x i t as a resul t o f p ressur e s m ade on t he fl oo r
,

O f t he m o uth directly under t h e cen t er O f the

,

ton gu e T hi s pa t ie nt n e x t m ade a regular p ra e

.

t i c e O f squee z i n g t he j o in t s O f her thum b fi r s t ,

a n d s e c on d fin g e r whene v er S h e had n ot hing e lse

,

i m p o r t an t to d o A n d the resul t i n fini t ely mo r e

.

t ha n j u s t i fi ed t h e m ean s .

Ly m pha t ic e n lar g em en t s as pai n ful gla n d s in

,

t h e ne ck arm pi t s o r gr o i n yield e v en mo r e
,
-
, ,

rapidly to this zon e pressur e t ha n d o t u mo rs .

A n d while n o clai m s are made to t he e ffec t t ha t

ca n cer can b e cured b y Z o ne t herapy ye t t her e
. ,

are m any cases i n which pai n has b ee n c om

p l e tely relie v ed and t he
,
pa t ien t s freed fr om t h e
f u r t her necessi t y o f res o r t i n g to Opia t es A n d .

in a few case s t he gr o wth s ha v e als o e nt irely

di s appeared .

T he gr o w t h o f in t eres t in t his w o rk i s mo s t
22 ZO N E T H E RA P Y .

Fm . 5 . S ho w i ng me t h o d of r u i
b b e r -b a n d ng th e fi ng e r s r
for t ou b l e
i n t he fi rt
s , se c o n d and th ird z on e s .
 R EL I E V I N G PA I N BY P R E SSU R E . 23

enc o ura g in g D r F itz G erald a n d o ther p hy

. .

sicians u sing zo ne thera p y in their prac t ic e h a v e ,

had s c o res Of letters fr om p a t ie nt s they ha v e

ne v er e v en see n b ut w ho ha v e wri tt en e x p ress
, ,

i n g their appreciati o n f o r the relief secured

thr o ugh instructi o ns fr o m s o me o f their p atient s ,

or thr o ugh f o ll o wi n g o ut s o me suggest i on fr o m

my ar t icles in t he maga z ines .

I ha v e reas o n to b elie v e t ha t there are no w

upwards Of tw o hun dred physicians o s t e o paths ,

and dentist s using t hese me t h o ds e v ery day

, ,

with c o mp lete sa t is facti o n to the m sel v es a n d to

their pa tien t s .

A nd the num b er o f laymen and es p ecially lay ,

w o me n w ho are preachi n g the d o c t rine in t heir

,

o w n h o useh o lds a n d am on g t heir circle o f

,

friends m us t b e legi o n T he ad o pti o n Of t he

,
.

me t h o d is at t ended with a b s o lutely n o danger o r

disagreea b le result s and may b e t he means o f
,

lengthening sh o rt li v es and m aki n g g ood heal t h

ca t ching I for o ne h o pe tha t t he num b ers o f
.
, ,

th o se wh o m ay b e incli n ed to learn and prac tice

these me t h o ds up o n themsel v es and up o n t he
mem b ers of their families may e v er increase and
m u lt ipl y F or t his is a b ig idea and a helpful
.
,

one . T here f o re the m o re w ho make i t t heir

,

o wn t h e b et t er f o r t he huma n race We shall .

no w le t D r F itz G erald c o n t inue t he argume nt

. .
 CH A P T E R I I .

TH AT A CII I N G H EA D .

H E n e x t t i m e y ou ha v e a headache i n ,

s t ead O f attempt i n g to paraly ze th e

ner v e s o f s ensati on wi t h an o pia t e or a ,

c o al t ar pai n d e ad en er p u s h t h e headac he ou t
“
-
,

t hr o u gh t he top o f t he head I t s surpri s i n g ly .

’

ea s y .

I t me rely requir e s tha t y ou pr e ss y o ur t h u m b

o r b etter s t ill s o me sm oot h b r o ad me t al s u r
, , ,

fa c e ( S ee F ig as the e n d o f a kni fe ha n dl e
.
-

fi r m ly agai n s t t he r oo f of t h e m o uth as ne ar ly ,

a s p o s si b le u n der t he b attlegr o u n d a n d h o ld i t
t h e r e f o r fr om t hree t o fi v e m i n ute s — b y t he
wa t c h I t m ay be necessary i f t he ache i s ex
.
,

ten s i v e to shi f t the p o si t i o n o f t he thu mb o r

,

”
met al applica to r s o as t o c ov er c om ple te ly
“ “

th e area tha t ach e s .

H eadaches a n d n euralgias Of purely ner v ou s ,

o rigi n n ot due to p o is o n fr om tox ic a b s o rp t i on

,

fr om t he bo wels o r to c o n s t ipa t i o n o r al c o h o l
, ,

is m t um o rs eye s t rain o r s om e speci fic o rga n ic

, ,
-
,

c aus e us u ally s u b side u n der t hi s pressure wi t hi n

,

a few m inu t e s .

’
T i s a s ea s y as lyi n g M a n y patien t s c u r e.

( )
2 4
 ZO N E T H E RA PY .

th ei r o w n o r their frie n d s a n d relati v e s h e a d

ache s o r n euralgic attacks i n this m anner In .

the ir o wn headaches they use their right o r le ft

thu mb depending up o n whether they are rig h t
or le ft handed
-
. I n treat ing o thers they use th e ,

fi r s t and sec o nd fingers pressi ng fi rmly u n d e r

,

the seat of pai n .

T heir p o int s Of attack may e x te n d fr o m th e

roots Of the fr o nt teeth — for a fr o ntal hea d
ache — to the j unct i o n Of the hard and s o f t

p alate for a pain in the b ack Of the head Or .

from the r oo ts Of the right upper m o lars to th o s e

of the upper le ft m o lars i f the p ain b e i n t h e
,

re g i on Of the temples or the side Of the head .

O n ly temp o rary result s sh o uld b e e x pected

o r e v en c o mplete fa ilure i f the pain is due to
c o sti v eness eye strain or s o me persi stent o rganic
-

—
, ,

c o nditi o n alth o ugh e v en here the se v erity o f

the a tt ack can usually b e m o di fied .

I n t h o se headaches e x cit ed by den t al o pera

t i o ns relie f can alm o st in v aria b ly b e secure d .

D r T h o ma s JR yan O f N ew Y o rk and ot he r s
. .
,

familiar with zo ne t herapy ( t he science Of re

lie v ing pain and curing diseas e b y pr e ssures in
”
the v ari o us zo nes a ffec t ed by pain or di seas e ) ,

alm o st uni formly cur e headach e s o r neuralgias

i n t heir pa t ien t s in t his mann e r I n m edical .

p r a c t ice t he resul t s a re e ve n mo r e miracul o u s .

 T H A T A C H I N G H EAD . 27

O ne of t he w o r s t ca s e s ye t t rea t ed by zon e
t h e rapy wa s t ha t o f a lady w ho had s u ffe red
f ro m per s i s t en t headache for m o r e t han t hree
years S he had b een to all t he m o s t pr o minen t
.

ner v e spe c iali s t s in t he E a s t and had als o c o n

,

su lted s e v eral E ur o pean e x p e r t s H er h e ar t wa s .

i n a v ery dang e r o us c o ndi t i o n o win g to t h e ,

a mo u nt o f an t ipyrin and ot her headache p o wder s

s he had t ake n .

H er pai n was l o c a t ed mo s t gen e rally in t h e

f o rehead and dur ing t he h e i g h t o f t he at t ack s
,

e xt e n ded u p a s far a s t he top o f t he head .

I t wa s not relie v ed b y sleep indeed i t was ,

w o rse i f any t hin g a f t er su c h poo r a n d inad e

, ,

q u a t e sleep as sh e was a b l e to ge t T his fa c t .

eli m i n a t ed eye s t rain as a cause for eye s t rai n

-
,
-

headach e s are al mo s t in v aria b ly b e tt er a fter a

ni ght s re s t
’
.

E v e ry o r ga n in t he bo dy had recei v ed a m o s t
t ho r o ugh o v erhauling and s t ill th o se headache s
,

held the f o rt S o t he dia g n o ses s e tt led d o w n

.

in to pain ha b i t
“
.

C hris t ia n S cie n c e mag n e t ic heali n g fai t h

, ,

c u re and mo s t o f the modern m edi c al fads had

,

all be en t ried wi t ho u t succe ss S he was o n the

,
.

v erge of sui c idal m elanch o lia .

T he a f t e rn oo n I fi r s t saw her she wa s alm o s t

i n hys te ria her p ai n was s o acu te Fo r when .
28 Z O NE T H E R A PY .

t eleph o ning for her app o i nt ment S he had b e en

to ld not to t ake any o pia t es — as they m ig h t
“
mask t he sy m p to ms and c o nfuse the diag no s i s
, .

Wi t h o u t s to pping t o quest i o n her I wa s h ed ,

my ha n ds in a n an t isep t i c s o luti o n placed t he t i p s

,

of t h e fi rs t and sec o nd fingers of my righ t ha n d

cl o s e against the r oot s O f her inci s o r o r fr o n t ,

t ee t h held h er head rigidly with the le ft han d

, ,

and press e d fi rmly f o r tw o minu t es I the n .

mov ed my finger tips an inch fur t her b ack on

t h e hard pala t e and repea t ed t h e pressure f o r
,

an o ther tw o minutes .

R eleasing her I stepped b ack much as a n

, ,

ar t is t migh t in v iewing a piece Of w o rk t hat

,

please s him T ha t I was j us t i fi ed in s o d o in g

.

was pr ov ed b y the fact that f o r the fi rst time i n

,

thr ee y e ars e x cep t when under t he c o mplete in

,

fl u ence o f an o piate t his lady was a b s o lu te ly

,

free fr om pain .

I ins t ructed her hus b and wh o acc o mpani e d ,

her j us t where to make the pr o per pressure s

,

when the pain returned and within a week had a ,

re p o rt fr o m him t hat there were n o w n o fur t her

‘

at t acks o f t he neuralgic headaches T his relie f .

has persis t ed for m o re t han a year .

H eadaches frequently resp o nd t o pressure s

e x erted ov er the j o in t s o n t he thu mb o r fing e rs ,

” “
o r s o met imes i t may be necessary t o a t tack i t
 T H A T A C H I N G H EA D . 29

fr o m th e insid e O f th e n o se o r fr o m s o m e ot h e r ,

p o in t o f v an t age in t h e zo ne a ffe c te d .

A s an illust rat i o n o f h o w pain can be sque eze d

o ut o f t he head t hr o ugh the fi ng e rs a t ypical ,

ca s e r e p o rted b y D r G eo rg e S t arr Whi t e o f

, .
,

L os A ngeles C ali f o rnia may be help ful

, ,
.

A lady su ffered fr o m a v ery se v ere headache

on th e top O f her head which had persis t ed f o r ,

mo r e t han t hr e e weeks S h e had c o nsul t ed s ev

.

” “
e ral d o c to r s wh o had gi v en h e r c o al tars
, ,

o pia t e s and hyp o dermics b u t the relie f was o nly

, ,

t emp o rary .

D r Whit e t o ld her n o thing o f what was con

.

temp lated b ut t oo k h o ld o f her hands and b egan

, ,

fi rmly pressing o n the fi rs t sec o nd and t hi rd

—
,

fi ng ers t he pain b eing di ffused ov er the

fr o n t al regi o n s a t t he same t ime e n gaging her
in c o n v ersa t i o n c o ncerning her c o ndi t i o n .

A f t er a bo u t thre e minutes he asked her i f she

w o uld l o ca t e wi t h her hand j ust where t he pain
was S he hesi t a t ed l oo ked up and said D O
.
, , ,

”
y o u us e mental therapy P T hen a fter b linking ,

“
perple x edly f o r hal f a minu t e she added : F or ,
’
the fi rst t im e in t hree weeks e x cept when I v e ,

be en under t he influence of narc o t ics the pain i s ,

”
en t irely go ne .

D r Whi t e to ld her t o ha v e s o me o ne repea t

.

t hese finger pressures a t the same time em ,

30 ZO NE T H E R A PY .

p h a si z ing t ha t i f s he failed to ge t relie f fr o m t h i s

me t ho d to c o me b ack H e has not s ee n her si n c e
. .

B u t t h e same c on di t i on i n t h e s ame pat i en t

may not b e cl e ared up fr o m t he same p o int e v e r y
t i m e F or i n s ta n ce i f the pain is in t he sec o n d
.
,

zo ne o f th e f o reh e ad a t one t ime we ma v s t o p

,

”
i t b y attacking the f o refi n ger T he n e xt t i m e
“

h o we v er pressure up o n t hat finger might no t

,

ha ve t he sligh t est e ffec t and w e w o uld ha v e to ,

go to th e to ngue or t he r oo f of th e m o uth to g e t
result s A not her time we migh t be succ e s s f u l
.

o nly fr o m t he n o s e o r b y pressi n g the te e t h o f

an alumi n um c o m b on the skull a bov e o r be lo w ,

t he s e a t o f pain and s o on .

N o w physicians ha v e f o r many years b ee n

, ,

c o nsis t e nt ly t eaching ou r patien t s and t he pu b l i c

h o w not to ge t sick W hv not carry t his t each
.

ing to i t s o nly l o gical c o nclusi o n and teach the m ,

h o w b y per fec t ly sa fe and harmless means t hey

, ,

may i f sick cure themsel v es O f t heir min o r a i l

, ,

men t s ?

I t w o uld add m ar v el o usl y to the sum to tal o f

health happi ness and ec o n omic e fficiency i f all
, ,

headaches f o r ins t ance which c o uld b e cured b y

—
, ,

zo n e t herapy were cured and kep t cured by

s preading t he kn o wledge o f h ow t o keep t he m
cur e d .

We feel cer t ain als o t ha t t he medical p rofes

 T IIA T A C H I N G H EA D . 31

si on a s s oo n as i t i s generally in f o r m ed c on c e r n
,

ing zon e t herapy will e agerly wel c ome t he

,

o pp o r t uni t y to pr om ulga t e t he ad v a nt age s Of a

sa fe and harml e s s meth o d O f r e lie v i n g headache
and pain A nd als o of d o ing away wi t h the
.

necessitv f o r l o ng e r re s o rti n g to danger o us

an t i pyr i n or ph en ace t in t a b le t s and p o wders .

T hi s i s a crusade w orthy Of their high e st al

trui sm and n ob les t sel f sacri fi ce
-
.
 CH A P T E R I I I .

CU RI N G G O IT RE \V I T I I A P RO BE .

NE the m ost ob stinat e dis orders th a

of

a ffl ic t humanity and one which se e m

to b e rapidly on the increas e is g o i t r e
Go i t r e i s a general c o ndit i o n in which t he th y ,

r o id gland be c o mes pr o gressi v ely e nlarged p ro ,

d u cing an unsigh t l y swell ing low d own o n th

fr o n t o f the neck .

A ss o cia t ed with this s w ell ing wh ether a s

cause o r as an e ffec t no one kn ows for a ce r
tainty — is a dist ressing st ate of ner v ousn es s
apprehensi o n and general disc o m f o r t
,
.

F requently t he case b ec o mes ex op thalmic i

typ e running a pulse o f 1 50 or m o re to t he m n
,
i

ute and la t er de v el o ping irregular i t ies in th

,

heart s act i on
’
. I n this f orm there is al s o
.

—
marked pr ot rusi on of the eye b all s fr om pre s ,

pressure b ehind t he gl ob es of the eye due t ,

distur b ances in the l o cal circulati o n .

M any causes ha v e b een assigned f o r go i t r e ,

b u t no one kn o ws f o r certain which is the c o r

rec t o ne B ecause Of it s pre v alence in S wit z e r
.

land and in ot her m o untain o us regi ons wher e ,

( 32 )
 ZO N E T H E RA P Y .

tox ins w o rks ov er tim e on the j ob and not k n ow

—
, ,

ing wh en to qui t keeps righ t on w orkin g w it

,

the resul t that the sys tem is ov ercharg e d w it

'

thyr oid e x t ract T his th y r o idism as it is ca llec

.
,

ultimately pr oduces the go it r ous sy m p to ms .

O ther cl inicians c ontend that t he di sea s e i s 0

mic r oc origin w hich is quite u nlik elv be
cause when the glands ha v e b een b r ough t to th
aut ops y ta b le and the path ol ogical la bo r a t o r y
mic r ob e s ha v e not b een f o und in qua n t it y su f
fi cient to cause these gra v e s y mpt oms .

Bu t w hat interests and disc ourages th o s e a f

fl icted m ost is that i f the cause is kn ow n th ,

success ful t reatment is ev en m ore unkn ow n .

M edical men ha v e tre a ted these c ondit i on s 0 ]

the gener al supp osit i on th at there w as e it h e r to '

much or not en ough th y r o id e x t r act secret e d a n t

discharged int o the c ircul at i on b v the t h e i .

gland .

S O the y ga v e thyr o id t ab l et s m ade fr om t h

,

dried and pul v eri z ed glands o f sheep I f t h e s .

dimi n ished the int ensit y of the s y mpt om s t h ,

d oc to rs knew th at t he gland w a s defic ient in i t

func t i oning p owers and that furn ishing a n a d
,

d itional suppl y fr om the g lands o f ou r w oo ll

b r others w ould tend to rest ore the thv roid d e
fi ciency in us .

I f o n t he ot her hand thyr o id medica t i on a g

, ,
 CU R I N G G O IT R E W IT H A PROBE . 35

g ra v ated the c o ndi t i o n the physicians figur e d

,

tha t t he pat ient already had m o r e t hyr o id s u b

stance t han he k n ew wha t to d o w i t h He n c e .

they administered i o dine in s o me O f it s c o m b ina

t i o ns generally as i o dide Of p o tash i n o rder
t o b ring a b ou t a m o re acti v e c on diti o n of t he
gla n dular s ystem and assis t in t he elimina t i on
,

o f this e xt ra t hyr o id sec reti o n .

I f the gland st ill grew a n d t he sympt o m s b e

came w o rse t here rema i ned the al t erna t i v e o f
,

”
liga t ing o r tying off t he l ob es in o rder to ,

dimi n ish t he sec re t ing p o wer o f t he o rga n O r .

,

m o re radical ye t h ard lv m o re ge n erally e ffe c t i v e

, ,

a n o p era t i o n was made — e x t irpati n g ( c u tt ing

o u t ) a c o nsid e ra b le p orti o n of the b ody O f t he
t hyr o id .

T hi s as may b e imagined is a v ery seri o us

, ,

o pera t i on and fraught with c onsidera b le danger

,
.

N ot so m uch fr o m t he o pera t i on i t sel f as fr o m ,

t he c on sequences o f the Opera t i o n up on t he p sy

cholog ical and me nt al c ondi t i o n of the pa t i e n t .

N ot in frequen t ly t he entire nature a n d disp o si

t i on o f a n indi v idual ma v b e changed b y t he
apparen t ly simple pr ocedure o f rem ov ing a few
cu b ic inch e s o r less o f t issue
, , .

S o on t he wh ol e goi t re h as b een a b u g b ear

, ,

mo s t un s a t is fac to ry fr om e v ery angle Y et .

,

wi t h the p r o p er applica t i on o f the p rin c ipl e s O f

36 ZO N E T H E R A PY .

—
zo ne therapy go it re inc luding t h e m os t ad
—
,

v anced forms of ex o p tha lmic O f th e

is o n e
m any c o ndi t i on s w e are m ost certain of c u r ing .

A lm o st fr o m the fi rst treatment the fe el i n g O f ,

su ffo cati o n the dist ressing ner vo us symp toms

,

and t he pul se rate are fa v ora b ly influenc ed I n .

”
fr o m tw o t o eigh t mo nths the p o p eye and the
s w o llen gland are p rog ressiv elv reduc e d to n or
mal .

U p to this writ ing I ha v e had m o r e th an

,

thirty cases ev ery one of which with tw o ex

, ,

cep tion s ha v e b een cured and discharged on a re

, ,

well on the way t o wards a cure T he t ap e mea s .

ure sh o ws tha t in s o me of these pa t ien t s th e

swell ing decreased three inches i n as ma ny
weeks O ne v er y resp onsi v e case w a s r ed u ced
.

fr o m 145 to 1 3 I nches in less than three d a y s ’

t rea t ment T he ph ot ographs acc ompanyi n g t h is

.

chapte r speak for themsel v es ( S ee F igu r e s 7

.
“

and T here is no p ossi b il i ty of d ou bt n th e

ac t ual acc o mplishment s O f this meth o d i n th e
fac e o f t hese v isual dem onst rat i ons A n d a s .
,

with all mat t ers detailed in t hese pages th e ,

o r iginal pa t ient s and data may b e seen b y a ny

medical man wh o is fairlv in t eres t ed .

T he e x plana t i o n for the non r eli e f of t h e tw o

-

c ases w h i c h did n ot impr ov e under t rea t me n t i s

—
s i m pl e and v ery c o nclusi v e to th o s e fa m ilia r
CU RI N G G O I T RE W IT H A P RO B E .
38 ZO N E T H ER A PY .

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 C UR I NG GO IT RE W IT H A PR O B E . 39

with the method and its workings O ne of these .

two non b enefi ted cases re fused t o carry o ut her

-

$
h o me treatment The o ther was a patient suf
“

fering fr o m an uterine tum o r Thi s pr o duced a .

pathological c o ndit i o n in the g o itre zo ne H ence .

the goit re would not yield unt il all o ther condi

t ions influenc ing thi s zo ne w ere rem ov ed I sent .

this lady to a g ynec o l ogi st and it is q uite certain

that a fter this tum o r is rem o ved she will under
, , ,

appr o priate t reatment entirely rec ov er from her

,

goitre .

D r R e id K ell o gg and Dr Th o mas M ou rnig

. .

han of P r o vidence R I Dr G e o rge S tarr,

. .
,
.

White of L os A ngeles D r P lank of K ansas ,

.

City and a number of other medical men have

, ,

rep o rted that they have the same uni fo rmly

fa v orable result s in t reat ing g o it re that we have
here .

D r K ellogg has had a d oz en cases all of

.
,

which ha v e been o r are being cured

,
I t i s in ,
.

teresting t o note that o ne of his cases als o a , ,

lady su ffer ing from a slight erosi o n of the neck

o f the womb made no progress until thi s c o n
,

dit ion w a s cleared up by proper local treatment .

D r M ou rnig han has als o reported on fi fteen

.

cases eight of which were of the ex op thalmic

v a riety all impr o ving o r discharged as recov
e r ed
.
42 Z O NE T H E R A PY .

t o thei r dent is ts for a th o r o ugh o v erhauling of

their teeth when c o mmencing t reatment .

A l so it may be interest ing here t o n o te that i f

,

the the o ry of ev e strain causa ti o n of goit re i s

true and it seems qui te lik elv that in ma n y .

cases it may b e
,
— pressure therapv may log
ica lly be l oo ked for t o give sati s factory result s .

F o r the e ffects of ev e s train can undoubtedly b e

relieved b v pressure exerted o n the fi rst and sec
o nd fingers as w e shall sh o w in the next chapte r
,
.

So o ne of the m o st pu zz l ing and u nsatis fac

t o ry condit i o ns w ith w h ich physicians have ha d
to deal can now be said to be almost in v ariabl y
curable A nd the o nly instrument s we need to
.

o perate these grave c o nditi o ns are a st raight s t ee l

pr o be a few rubber bands and the patient s fi n
, ,
’

gers .
 C HAP T ER IV .

F I N G ER S $UEEZ I NG F OR EYE T ROU B LES .

F y our eyes pai n ,

cl o se them lightly — or
leave them open i f y o u pre fer ,
and
squeeze tightly the knuckles of the fi rst ( or
index ) fi nger s of b o th hands O ccasi o nally if .
,

the e y es are set far apart and e x tend over into

the third zone the sec o nd ( o r middle ) finge r
,

must b e included in thi s digital em b race But as .

a general r ule pressure on the upper and lower

sur fa ces as well as o n the sides of the fi rst and
,

second fi ngers will within fi v e m inutes relie v e

, ,

the pain of eye st ra in U nderstand I say re

.
,
“

$ ”
l ie v e not cure
,
“
F o r if the eye st rain is the
.

” “
result of a too constant attendance at movie
shows and due to the fact th a t the little ey e
,

muscles are expanding and contracting hundreds

” “
of t ime s a minute in an attempt to focus upon
the fl icker ing s creen the o nly cur e for this st rain
,

“ ”
i s to cut ou t these entertainment s or else pat ,

roniz e a mo v ie house where the fl icker has been

”
“
cut ou t O f course if the eye strain i s the
.
,

result of im b alance of the muscles of the eye it

w ill be necess a ry to properly adj ust this faulty
(43)
44 Z O NE T H ERAPY .

fo cus by rein fo rcing the lens O f the eye w it h a

supplemen tar y o ne made o f glass .

lu t fo r temp o rar y rel i e f fi rm pressure ov e r

the j o int s o f the fi rst and s ec o nd fingers con ,

tin ned for several minutes will usually g i v e ,

results .

Eye st rain and muscle t ire are largely u n d e r

the c o ntr o l O f the nerv o us system I f the n er v e s .

are fatigued the muscles funct i o n imper fec t ly

,
.

I f the muscles are wearied th e ner v es sy m

p athi z e and
,
make the fact kn o wn by raisi n g a

wail O f distress .

A nd s o it fo ll o ws that a skept ic is legit im a t e l y

entitled t o say Y es y o u zo ne therapist s cu r e
“

eye strain by squee z ing fingers o r t o es b u t a s ,

the c o ndit i o n is primarily a nerv o us one y ou ,

”
really cure it by suggestion .

This n o twithstanding the fact that frequ en t l y

,

the patient has no idea as t o what is be in g a t

’
tempted and d o esn t until his pain is rel i ev e d
, , ,

kn o w why any o ne sh o uld w ant t o squee z e h i s

fi ngers .

A ls o I w o uld urgently rec o mmend any b e

,

“ ”
liever in the suggesti o n o r mental re sp on s e “

O f eye pains t o o mit pressures o ver the fi r st a n d

sec o nd finger s t o try and help this c o ndit io n b y

squee z ing the thumb and little finger and s e e ,

what t hey accompli sh .

 F I NG ER S $U EE Z I NG F O R EYE T R O UB LES . 45

H owe v er accepting the e x treme po s ition Of

,

some Of our friends and admitt ing that all eye

—
,

s t r a in i s inl ag ination O r an error O f the mind

—I would a sk them to conside r the pert prom
—
,

inent and r esolutely determined stye which is

,

certainly not imaginary nor merely suggested

,
.

A lso infl a mmatory conditions O f the conj uncti v a

—the mem b rane O f the ev e and l ids—and th a t
i r ritatin g a nd extremely annoying aflliction
known as granulated lids .

It mi g ht b e c o nsidered a crucial test Of ima g i

nati o n to dissi pate and clear up these c o ndi
tions yet z o ne therapy d o es j ust this For sti es
, .

and such eye conditions as conj uncti v it is a nd

granulated lids are completely rel ieved by pres
sure e x erted upon the j oints of the fi rst and
s econd finger o f the hand corresponding t o the
eye in vo l v ed In sties the relie f is frequently
.

complete in o ne o r tw o treatments In other in

.

fl ammatory c o nditions o f the mucous mem

b r anes Of the ev e it may b e necessary t o give
t reatments three t imes a week f o r se v eral w eeks .

A lso a b andage fastened ar o und the index

,

fingers and s o aked w ith camph o r w ater fre

, ,

quently rel ieves itching and c o ngest i o n of the

eyes .

Favor a bl e resu l t s are almost r o utine in these

t r ou b les a nd usu a lly without emplo y ing any
,
46 Z O N E T H ERAPY .

o ther measures F or facilitat ing treat me nt

.
,

—
h o we v er unless the re sul ts o f the exclusi v e u se
o f zo ne therapy are desired fo r exper im ent al

—
reas o ns it m igh t be well to use hot bor ic a c i d
,

c o mpresses o r o ther indicated measures in ad d i

, ,

ti o n t o the pressures .

T o go s till farther I might s tate a fact th a t

every d o ct o r w ill immedia tel y admit A nd th i s
—
.

is that inflamma ti o n o f the o p tic nerve opt ic

,

—
neuritis i s m o st dec idedly n o t ima g inary nor ,

i s it s o far as I kn o w cured b v tell ing the pat ie n t

, ,

that there is n o thing the matter with him A s a .

usual thing whether trea ted o r n o t o ne a ffl ict e d

, .

with opt ic neuriti s g o es o n t o c o mplete blindne s s .

Y et w e have cured optic neuriti s b v mak in g

pressures o ver th e fi rs t and sec o nd fingers a nd ,

over the in feri o r dental ner v e where it ent e r s

the lower j aw b o ne .

O ne p atient I have in mind wh o had be e n ,

treated with o ut benefit b v se v eral c o mpet e nt

medical men using c o nvent i o nal and accept e d
,

methods recei v ed n o o ther fo rm of treatment

,

n o l ocal applications n o anti septics Y et rel i e f

, .

fo llowed alm o st immediatel y a fter the pressu r e s

were made The w o man was t reated tw ice th e
.

fi rst day That night she slept with out taki n g

.

—
an o p iate s o mething s he had not d o ne bef o re in
se v er a l weeks .
 F I NG E R S $U EE Z I NG F O R EYE T R O U B LES . 47

A complete cure Of her condit ion was brought

ab o ut within a week and now after the expira , ,

tion O f six m o nths there has been no return Of

,

her symptoms .

For the benefi t O f physician readers I sh o uld

like to add that in treating eye strain conj u nc ,

tiv itis sties granulated lids and eye c o ndit i o ns

, , ,

generally pressures made w ith a b lunt probe

, ,

( see E Fig 1 1 ) o n.the muc o cutane o us margins -

( where the skin j oins the muc o us membrane in

the nostrils ) a ffect s the sec o nd divi sion Of the
o pthalmic nerve and assists materially in bring
,

ing ab o ut a fa vo rable influence in eye t roubles .

I w o uld als o emphasi z e the imp o rtance O f see

ing that the c o nditi o n O f the eye teeth was per
fect as frequently some chronic inflammat o ry
,

eye trouble may b e caused by an in fection from

the root s O f the cani ne teeth .

In o rder permanently t o cure anything its

cause must be rem ov ed A nd it stands to rea .

son that if a patient persists in p o is o ning himsel f

with co ffee t o bacc o or alc o h o l ; o r su ffers from
, ,

an impoverished c o ndit i o n of the bl oo d o r from ,

a b rain tum o r lead pois o ning o r an inj ury or

, , ,

ha s some constituti o nal o r o rganic disease or

some spinal lesi o n which is the basis f o r his ey e
,

t rouble permanent relie f will n o t f o llow unless

,

these causes are rem o ved or corrected .

48 Z O NE T H ER A PY .

Electrical A pp l icators Usefu l in Zone Therapy

N on-
A is an o di
r i l cl mp w h i c h
n ar y su rg ca b d f l mp i g
a can e u se or c a n
the to e
n gu .

3 i s o d i y y -m c le et c to Th i
an r n ar e e us b d f
r ra r. s can e u se or
i nte m i ttentl y t c t i g th p te i o p i ll f th f c
r re ra n e os r r ars o e au es .

C i s a pe c i l t y p of
s a l p ob e d f tt c k i g the p
n asa r e . u se or a a n os
t i
er or w ll of the
a ph y n aso ar nx .

D i g l
s a re u ar
'

p lpeb l et cto w h ic h
a ra br ed f i t
ra
'

r ca n c -u s or n er
m itt tly et cti g th
en r ra ft p l t
n p c i ll i th g i of th
e so a a e, es e a y n e re on e
fo of R m ii ll
ssa osen er .

E g l
1 3 a re u ar fl t ppl i c to b t p t one d Th i i ef l
a a a r en u a en s s us u

bo t th th o t d f be d p e e ppl i c to
.

a u e r a anI au ees . t ca n u se as a r ss u r a a r

f th po st i o w ll f th o o h y
.

or e er r a o e r p ar nx .

F i s an or di y l m i
nar m m b a u d f t
nut c k i g the
co f i g u se
'
or a a n n ers
or t oes e i th t th t i p
er a b t h j i t
e s or a ou t e o n s .

FI G . 11 .
 C HA P T E R V

MAKI NG T H E DEA F H EAR .

much kn o w ledge is a dange r ous

OO
thing F o r it keeps o ne thus afll icted
.

fr o m acquiring more .

O f course it seems o utlandish and quite b e

v ond the pale o f reas o n t o ask a man w h o c a n
,

—
minutely describe the semi ci rcular canals Of the
ear o r b o und the internal labyrinth on the no r th
, ,

s o uth east and w est t o believe that by pre ss ing

, ,

with a blunt pr obe behind the wisd o m t oo th or .

at the angle of the j aw o n the upper sur face the ,

hearing O f the adj acent ear can be mate rially

benefited O r that a similar result w o uld follow
.

squee z ing up o n the j o int s of the ring finger or ,

the toe corresp o nding t o the ring finger A nd .

this a fter every o ther scient i fically accredit ed

,

’
method administered by the w o rld s great est
,

special ists had fai led Y et such is the fact

,
. .

F o r it is the experience of ph y sicians familia r ,

with the pract ice and principles of z one therapy ,

that nine o ut o f ten cases of o t o sc lerosis ( th ic k

en ing o r chr o nic c o ngest i o n o f the membranes

o f the ear ) can be improved fr o m 2 5 % to

( 50)
 M A K I N G T H E D EA F H EA R . 51

A nd that ringing in the ears a nd ea r noi s es

, ,

or catarrhal deafness can be relieved in an e v en

,

larger number o f cases I f there is any hearing

.

le ft a t all these meth o ds are almo s t certain to

,

imp r o v e it.

G eneral practit ioners osteopaths and dent ist s

, ,

w ho d o not kn o w so much a b out the geog r aphy

O f the ear as does the ear specialist h av e no ,

”
hesitati o n in trying out these methods fre ,

quently with ast o nishing results .

O ne dent ist o f my acquaintance whose know l ,

edge O f the ear is merely academic has cured or ,

mater ially impr o ved the hearing Of more th a n

twenty Of his patient s This he did by instruct
.

ing them to tuck a wad o f absorbent l int or a

“

handkerchie f in the space between the last tooth

,

“
and the angle O f the j aw and b ite down hard ,

upon this substance for several minutes repeat ,

ing this procedure tw o or three times daily .

S ome medical men cause these pat ient s to

”
work on the ring finger on the side in v ol v ed ,

and d o a lmost as well .

It may better ser v e o ur purposes by way Of ,

illustrat ion were I to c ite a few specific cases

, ,

a nd det a i l the ir exact manner O f treatment It .

may then b e easier to put the teaching int o pra e

t ical a ppl ication following exactly the treatment
,

as outlined .
 Z O N E T H ERA PY .

A l a d y the wi fe Of a n ea r speci al i st w a s re
, ,

centlv b rought to me for dea fnes s The d oct or .

ha v ing tried unsucce ssfully every acc r edi te d

method was c o nstrained to see what z one
,
“

”
therapy would d o .

F or thirty years th is pat ient had heard nothi ng

with the r ight ear and v ery l ittle with the l eft
,
.

I st imulated with a st i ff curved cotton t ippe d

, ,
-

p r obe ( inst r ument sh o w n in Fig 6 may b e u sed ) .

the area lying between the last tooth and the

angle Of the j aw — ”
care fully co v ering all the “

—
gum sur faces sides as w ell as biting su r f ace s
In addit ion I h ooked an inst rument b ehi n d the
,

soft palate ( see D Fig and stretch ed it

, .
“

gently forward This I have f o und p ow er fu llj

.
, ,

stimulates the circulat i o n o f the ear zo nes am ” “

,

is most helpful p a rticu la rlv in catarrhal de a f

ness A ft er tw o t reatment s this patient c o u l t
.

—
hear a small tuning f rk o ne hal f inch a w aj
o

fr o m the right ear and o ne inch fr o m th e l e f t

,

A fter a few m o re treatment s her hear i n g s< ,

w ond er fu llv impr o ved that she c o uld h ea r

w hisper W i th the r ight ear This a fter b e i n g .

”
stone dea f in that ear for thirtv ve a t s a m
“

a fter having vi si ted all the n oted auri st s in th i :

c o untry and a b r o ad .

A y o ung so pran o m emb er of a l eading H a r t

,

fo rd c hurch ch o i r su ffered a pr o gressi v e l o s s it

,
 M AK I N G T H E D EA F H EAR . 53

hear ing which fin a ll y b ecame so pronounc ed as

,

“
to make it almost impossi b le for he r to sin g on
the pitch or h a rmoni z e w ith either the o rga n
,

or the o ther qu ar tette membe r s .

S he received t r eatment simil ar to that em

’
p l oyed o n the a urist s wi fe supp l ementin g the
,

”
same b y home treatment
“
This consi s t ed in
.

“
tucking a w a d O f surgeon s ga uze ( it ha s sinc e
’

b een discovered that a solid ru bb e r erase r g i v es

even better results ) in the sp a ce back Of the
wisdom to o th a nd having her b ite forc i b l y upon
,

it r epeating the procedure sever al time s d a i ly

,

espe cially immedi ately b efore s inging or re

he a rsin g In a few weeks this gi rl had com
.

p le tely r ecovered her hear ing and was a b l

, e to
a c cept an en gagement w ith a tr a velin g conce r t
comp a ny a position v ery much more remuner a
,

t i v e than the church position she r esigned .

I ha v e had to date possi b ly fi fty cases Of de a f

ness O f one kind or a nother almost all O f which ,

h a v e b een mate r ially helped .

O ne pat ient a minister a fflicted with oto

,

sc l e r osis ( this supposed thickening O f the mem

b ra nes O f the inner ear ) for tw enty fi v e y e a r s -
,

cou l d b arely hear loud talking .

A fter working for fi ve minutes u p on the

j oint s O f the third ( r ing ) fin ge r and to a l es s e r
,

de gr e e upon its two neigh b ors it was found th a t

, ,
54 Z ON E T H ERA PY .

the re v e r end gentlem a n could h ea r a w hi sper

twenty fe et a w a y .

A s proof Of this it was whispe r ed to him W ill

ou kindly close the w indow abo v e your h ea d ?
y
H e r ose immediately fr o m his ch a i r and ,
“ ”
obliged .

A N ew Y ork physician had a relat i v e w ho h a d

been unsuccessfully t reated for deafne ss in one
car ( the right ) for the past sixteen y ea rs by th e ,

most famous aur is ts in N ew Y o r k L ondo n , ,

P ar is Berlin Dresden V ienna and oth er cen

, , , ,

ters Of medical learning X R ay treatm ent h a d .

-

at one t ime made this case at least twenty fi v e -

pe r cent worse Wi th the le ft ear thi s pat ient

.

”
could hea r a l oud voice close up “

Dr R eid K ell ogg v o lunteered to show th e

.

Doctor something using this case for demon

,
‘

stration purposes .

’
The Doctor like Barkis being willin ou r
, , ,

fr iend t o ok his trusty aluminum com b from h is

pocket and exerted pressure for fi v e minute s
w ith the teeth of the comb o n the finger tips O f
the patient s le ft hand ( see Fig
’
H e th en
,
.

used a tongue de p ress o r on the hard palat e and ,

on the floor Of the mouth for six or s ev e n ,

minutes more and then o n the t o ngue for an

,

addit ional fi v e .

T he Docto r then stood ten feet aw a y from h is

 M AK I N G THE DE A F H EAR . 55

relati v e and talked t o him in an ordinary tone Of

vo ice The pat ient di st inctly heard with the
.
,

le ft ear every w o rd sp oken

,
.

O ur pupil then started t o w o rk o n the other

hand The patient insisted that thi s was me r ely
.

H G .
—T hi i ll tr te o ne met h o d f t e t i ng t h e bone d d eep
12 . s us a s o r a s an

e te d co n di t i o n gener l ly P re re on t h e t i p f t h e fi nger i n fl en c e
s a s a . ssu s o s u s

bot h nte i o d po ter i o r pe c t f e co n d t hi d fo t h d fi ft h zone

a r r an s as s o s , r ,
ur an s
.

a waste O f t ime as the biggest ear specialists ,

in E urope had failed upon this Ho wever the .

.

attempt was made and within ten minutes the ,

pat ient heard a clock a f oo t away a watch held ,

t h re e inches distant from his ear and he furthe r ,

56 Z ON E T H E RAPY .

was able t o repeat words S p o ken loudly tw o feet

away Dur ing the experiments with his r i ght
.

car ,
the left was t ightly plugged w ith cot ton ,

stil l further wedged in the cana l by the physi

cian s finger So this was a rather conclusi v e
’

test .

A lady aged forty nine dea f since she w as

,
-
,

six years O ld came to the O ffice o f a spec ial ist

,

who had studied zo ne therapy When the physi .

eian appl ied a comb to o ne hand she put the ,

—
other t o o ne side of her lips the side the doctor
—
was on and whispered t o her fr iend Crank ”
.

Twenty minu tes later being then able to hea r ,

o rdinary conversation she whispered again , .

”
This t ime she said Wi z ard A few days late r .

she asked a friend riding with her in a st r eet

car if the b ell always rang when the conductor
'

pul led the strap S he was hearing it for the fi rs t

.

tim e in her li fe .

O ne lady came to this d o ctor w ith her hus

band They were both dea f But the b a by in
. .

—
her arms was not dea f and mo st decidedly was
n o t dumb e ither In less than a fortnight s t r eat
.
’

ment both parent s could hear the baby cry e v e ry

night which was a great sat isfac t i o n t o them
,

in one way
’
But they don t kn o w yet whethe r
.

to laugh or cry a b out it .

58 Z ON E T H ERAPY .

Of hearin g or middle ear trou bl e ha v e th ei r

, ,

origin in s o me pathol o gica l c o ndit ion Of h s t e e

teeth .

It may be o f in terest here to note al so th a t on e

o f the m o st e ffect ive ear ache cu r es we pos s ess

-

is a spring Cl othespin fastened fo r fi v e mi n u tes

o r thereab o uts on the t ip O f the ring finge r ( S ee .

Fig . A ny manipulat i o n o v er thi s zo n e i s

e ffective but h o ll o wed o ut spring clothespin s and
,
-

rubber b ands have been p articu larlv so .

T o illust rate : During a recent medic a l con

v ention in t h e West o ne of the physic ians at ten d

ing c omplained of a severe ear ach e — A .

physician present w ell versed in zone t he r a py

, ,

requested permissi o n to examine the e a r a c h e -

d o ct o r s fingers alleging that by pressing i n te r

’
.

mittently o n the finger nails he c o uld e st i m a te

,

the degree O f bl o od pressure and perhap s su g ,

gest a c o ur se O f treatmen t which might p er ma

nen ly cure the ear t r o uble
t — if n o t cause d b y a n
abscess .

The d o c to r extended the hand on the s i d e of

the a ffl ic ted e a r .

The z o ne therapy man squeezed the tip of th e

fourth fi nge r raise d the finger nail an d let i t
, ,

s et t le back a doze n O r m o re times to see h ow th e ,

“

c i r culati on r ea cted ”
as he sai d A fter th r ee or
,
.
 MAK I N G T H E D EA F H EA R . 59

FI G . l3 .
—Sh o w i ng met h o d f pply i ng h oll o w e d
o a ou t s p i ng c lot h e
r s

p i n fo
s r th e l i e f o f p i n d t o d e n i t i ze t h e teet h
re a an se s for dent l ope
a r

ati ona .
60 Z O N E T H ER A PY .

four minute s he said i y the wa y Docto r wh i ch

, ,

?”
ea r did y o u sa y is giving y o u the t r ouble
The D octo r l oo ked up in b l a nk amazem en t fel t ,

’
his ears s hook his head and s a id Y ou d o n t
, , ,
“

mean to sa y that that darned foolishn ess cu r ed

my e a r ache d o y ou
-
,

It does seem silly and yet it w o r ks

,
A nd.

anythin g that w orks is b enefi cent and h el p fu l ,

and deser v es enc o uragement . F or d ea fn ess and

ear trou b les ar e common and seem to b e b ecom
,

ing mo r e so .
 C HA P T ER 6 .

PA I NLE S S C H I LD B I RT H .

NY method no matter how impr ob a ble

,

seeming it may b e calculated to rende r

,

l a bor or operations upon w omen less Of

an o r de a l is w orthy Of consid er a tion by ph y si
,

c ians mid w i v es a nd the laity

, ,
The r e fore the r e
.

”
may b e something well w o rth t r y in g ou t in the
“ ”
p ressu r e method O f inducing rel ie f f r o m pain .

A num b er Of physicians have reported result s

that i f con fi rmed by further experiences war
, ,

rant u s in b elie v ing that zo ne pressure promises

to b e a b oon to w oman k ind .

T O tho s e who ha v e had experience with pres

su r e analgesia in dentistry and in the relief of
,

rheu mat ism lumbago neuralgia and other pain

, , ,

—
ful a ffections mitigating or even entirelv re
,

—
lie v ing the pa ins O f childbirth seem quite within
the bounds O f possibility In any e v ent it w ill
.

not b e d ifli cu lt to put it to a broad conclu s1v e test .

A nd it i s ab solu telv harmless there is n o danger

,

to m o ther or child I n I ts empl o y ment and n o in ,

“
d ica tion that it might be resp o nsibl e f o r a blue
b ab v F o r in alm o st e v ery case in w hich it h as
( 61 )
62 Z ON E T H ERAPY .

been t ried labor has been accelerated six hour s

,

or morH instead Of retarded .

The methods are s o simple that they can b e

—
utilized b y any one even by women w ho m ay ,

in their hour O f lab o r chance to be remote f r om

,

medical attent i o n T wo combs ( broad alumi n um

.

combs about four i nches in length ha v e b ee n

found to be the best ) t o clench the fingers a nd
thumbs o ver ( see Fig and some sharp or .

edged sur face t o press the soles Of the feet

against ( see Fig are all the I nstruments
.

that are required alth o a clamp has now b een

,

devised ( see Fig 1 6 ) which can be fastened on

.

the hands t o include b o th sur faces and all zones .

It is appl ied when c o ntract i o ns begin and i s kept ,

in p o siti o n intermittently unt il delivery is com

p leted R u b ber bands b o und around the great ,

”
and index t o es al s o a fford a grati fying help
,
.

—
To relieve the a fter pains and fac il itate the
expulsi o n O f the a fterbirth it has been found that ,

“
stimulating strokes with the teeth Of the ,

”
aluminum c o mb o r the bristl e s o f a wire hai r
,
“

brush are m o st e ffect ive It may requir e that

,
.

these str o kes be given fr o m ten minutes to one

hal f h o ur But they assist w o nder fully in con
.

tract ing the uterus .

D r R T H N esbitt O f \V au k eg an B L is
. . . .
, , ,

one O f a number O f physicians wh o ha v e had

 PAI NLESS C I I I LDB I RT H . 63

FI G . 14
.
—T h i h o w met h o d f t e t i ng l mb go
s s s o r a u a an d p in
a s in th e
b ack o f t h e b ody ffe c t i ng ll t h e zo ne
, a a s .
Z O NE T H ERAPY .

FI G . 15 .
66 Z ON E T H ERAPY .

pract ical experience with pressure analgesia in

childbirth H e sends this very interesting r e
.

port :
During the past week I have been attendi ng
“

the lectures O f Dr G e o rge S tarr White In t h i s

. .

m o st interest ing and help ful series D r Wh ite ,

.

explained and exemplified bi o dynamic diagno si s

by means O f the magnetic meridian ( a rema rk
able disc o very O f Dr White which enable s one .
,

t o diagn o se di seases o therwi se u nd iag nosib le .

”
This by means O f changes in the tensi o n of “

—
o rgans which o ccurs when a pr o perly grounded
patient i s turned fr o m No rth o r So uth to E a st
or West ) Dr White als o dem o nst rated zon e
. .

therapy H e asked i f any of the d oct o r s p re sen t

.

expected a c o nfinement case s oo n I f so h e .

,

wished t o give them s ome suggesti o ns i n z on e

anesthesia in c o nnec ti o n with d eliv erv .

‘
A s I was expect ing a call every hour I t ol d
“ ’

D r White and he gave me s o me speci al poi nt s

.
,

c o ncerning this w o rk L ast night I was c al l e d .

t o attend what I expected w o uld be my l ast c a s e

in c o nfinement as I have been d o ing th is w or k
,

so many years that I intended t o reti re F r om .

my last night s experience I feel as i f I sh ou l d

’

like to start the practi ce O f medic ine al l ov e r

again .

The woman I del ivered was a p r imip ara

“
 PA I N LESS C H I LDB I R T H . 67

( one w h o had never had a child be fo re and w h o ,

there fore b ecause of the rigidity of the bo nes

,

and tissue s has a m o re d ifli cu lt lab o r ) small in

, ,

stature .

“
When severe c o nt ract i o ns b egan and the ,

mother was b eginning to be very nerv o us and

complained of pain at which t ime I generally
,

administer chl o ro fo rm I began pressing on the

,

soles Of the feet with the edge O f a big file as I ,

could find n o thing el se I pressed on the top O f

.

the fo o t with the thumbs O f b o th hands at the

—
metatarsal phalangeal j o int ( where the toes ,

j oin the foot ) I exerted this pressure o ver eac h

.

foot for a b out three minutes at a time The .

mothe r told me that the pressure o n the feet

gave he r no pain what soever .

“
A s she did not have any uterine pain I was ,

afraid there was no advancement T O my great .

surp r ise when I examined her a bo ut ten or

,

fi fteen minutes later I fo und the head within

,

tw o inches of the o utlet I then waited a bo ut .

fi fteen m inutes and on examinati o n fo und the

,

head at the vulva I then pressed again f o r

.

a b ou t one or tw o m inutes o n each f oo t the edge ,

Of the fi le being o n the s o le o f the f oo t and mv ,

thum b s Ov er the tarsa l metatarsal j o int s as b e

-

fo r e In this way I exerted pressure O n the sole

.

Of the foo t with the file and pressure on the ,

68 Z ON E T HERAPY .

d o rsum Of the f o ot with m y thum b s doing each ,

foo t separ a tely The last pre ssure l asted a b out

.

one and a hal f minutes to each foot Within .

five or ten minutes the head was appearing and ,

I held it back to preser v e the perin eum ( the

tissue j oining the vagina and the rectum ) It .

made steady pr o gress the head and shoulde r s

,

c o ming ou t in a n o rmal manner Within thre e .

”
minutes the child which weighed in at 9 “

—
pounds was b orn crying lu stilv The mothe r
,
.

told me she did not experience any pain what

ever and could n o t b el ieve the child was b or n
,
.

‘ ’
S he laughed and said This is not so bad
,
.

“
A nother point that is ve r y r em a rkabl e i s tha t
a fter the child was b orn the woman did not e x
,

p e r ience the fatigue that i s generally felt and ,

the child was more act ive than usual I accoun t .

for this on the p r inciple that pain inhi b its ( pr e

vents ) progres s O f the bi rth and ti r e s the ch il d
,
.

But as the p ain was inhi b ite d the p r ogress w a s ,

more steady and thus fat igue to b oth moth e r

,
”
and child was a v oided .

A Ma s sachusetts doct o r supplement s this c ase

—
with se v eral others equally r idicu l ous or rev olu
tionary — depen d ing upon ou r v ie w point T o in .

’
sure b re v it y and accuracy I quote the Doc to r s
ow n wo r d s .

“
Case 1 Multipara ( a wom a n w ho has h ad
'

.
 P A I N L E ss C H I L DB I R T H . 69

—
pr ev ious con fi nements ) mother S h o rt of fo ur .

est pr evious labor eight h o urs H ad had a .

l a ceration of cervix ( neck O f the womb ) w ith

he r fi rst child A lso one forceps deliver y
. .

“
When labor commenced she was given t w o
aluminum combs to hold ( as sh o wn in Fig .

a nd inst ructed to make str o ng pressure upon

them with a view of inhibit ing pains p articu
, ,

larly in the fi rst sec o nd and third z ones

,
Thes e .

com b s were four inches in length and slightly

roughened on the ends so that the lateral ( or
,

side ) sur faces of the thumbs could more effec

tiv ely b e st imulated .

“
W a s called at fo ur a m arrived at . . and
,

the b a b e had j ust b een born The pat ient re .

ported that she had been in bed for only 1 5

m inut es There had been only one severe pain
. .

This was when the head delivered .

T h er e was no exhausti o n following as w ith

“

‘
her pre v ious lab o rs and she said laughingly I
, ,

b el ie v e I ll b e able to get up this a ftern oo n

’
,

’
Docto r .

“
The a fterbirth delivery seemed t o be stimu
l ated and the pains c o ntr o lled by str oking the
,

b ac k s of the hands with the teeth o f the c o mbs .

S he became relaxed and dr o wsy fr o m thi s

st ro k ing and finally fell asleep and slept almost

—
,

th r ou g h t h e night per fectly free from pain .

70 Z O N E T H E RA PY .

Case 2 P rimipara thirty seven years O ld

.
,
-
.

This woman had a badly retrofl ex ed uterus ( a

wom b which is t ilted back ) which seemed to re ,

tard the advancement of lab o r for she requir ed ,

five h o urs for del ivery .

S he als o used the c o mb pressures and in ad , ,

dit i o n was provided with a rough edged sh a l

,
-

low b ox up o n which she pressed fi rmly with the

,

soles O f her feet .

Four hours a fter del ivery she had sha rp

“

a fter b irth pains which were c o nt rolled by the

,

stroking meth o d be fo re described This seemed .

to give c o mplete and satisfact o ry relaxat i o n .

There were three o ther cases all O f wh ich

“

responded equally well t o treatment by z one

analgesia .

It sh o uld be added that while the pain wa s ,

inhibited there seemed to be no diminut ion in

,

”
the st rength of the uterine c o ntracti o ns .

D r Thomas M ou rnig han O f P r o vidence R

.
, ,
.

I has been for m o re than tw o years one of th e

.
, , ,

staunchest adv o cates O f my meth o ds H e ha s .

had phen o menally success ful experiences in

g o iter dea fness female irregularit ies and in th e
, , ,

rel ief O f pain and cure O f c o nditi o ns in the g en

eral pract ice O f medic ine .

Dr M ou rnig h an has al s o had alm o st un i

.
 P A I N LE ss C H I L DB I R T I I . 71

fo r ml y s uccessful results w ith z one analgesi a in

child b i r th I quote from a fe w of his cases
. .

“
Cas e 1 P r imipara nineteen years of age
.
, .

S u ffered from furious attacks Of v omitin g a t the

b e g in ning of her p regnanc y H er family ph y si .

eian wa nted to a b ort her fear ing for he r li fe , ,

unle ss the a ttacks were che cked .

“
S he finally came under m y care I inst r ucted .

her to b ite he r t o ngue as ha r d as she could

—
,

ab out one third the distance from the tip

-
thus ,
‘
as y ou see atta cking the enti r e z o ne connection
’

.
,

Thi s p r ocedure contr o lled the vo mit ing almost

im medi a tely and instead of becomin g accus
,

tomed to it there by l o sing its b ene fic ial e ffect

, ,

she beca me i f an y thing even more suscept ible

, ,

to it s influence .

“
When she came t o term I placed a rough
ed g ed b o x in the b ed for her to press the s oles
,

of he r feet on I a lso provided her with a sheet

.
,

tied to the bed post w hich she gr ipped and pulled

,

upon du r ing pains This I feel certain hel p s

—
.
, ,

pain r el ief by zone analgesia as we l l a s by

a ssi s ting in the mechanics Of la bo r S he made .

t raction upon the sheet s and pressed her feet on

the b ox as the conditi o n seemed to require and ,

‘
a s she e x pressed it go t great com fort f r o m it
,
.

“
When the second stage Of lab o r came on
72 ZO NE T I I E RA P Y .

th a t st a ge where I generall y resort to chloroform

—I made st r o ng pressure over the feet sinking ,

my thumbs well in over the articulation of the

toe and fo ot j o int S he was delivered in le s s
.

than five hours The a fterbi rth came aw a y w ith

'

out the sl ightest pain I was peculia rly st r uck .

by the alm o st c o mplete absence O f labor ex h au s

”
tion .

“
Case 2 M o ther aged fo rty ninth child S h e
.
,
.

‘
had had the devil s ow n t ime with the last thr ee
’ ’

or fo ur the attendant having been compell ed to

,

use fo rceps in these births With he r last ch ild .

she had had a bad laceration O f the ce r v ix ,

which however had been skill fully repaired

, ,
.

I gave her tw o aluminum c o mbs the edge s ,

of which I had nicked with a file so as to ,

r o ughen them for the thumb to press o v e r .

There being n o b ox handy I covered a coa l

shovel with a t o wel and when the pains b e , ,

came severe let her press the soles of her feet

,

against the sharp edge O f this .

—
Within 3 h o urs she was delivered w ithou t
“

— —
fo rceps this time of a 10 5 p o und boy as cl e an
a delivery as I ever saw .

I kn o w it seems cra z y but any method t h a t ,

will practically with o ut pain st imulate wome n

, ,

wh o were fo rmerly in lab o r for fr o m twel ve to

—
fi fte en hour s t o complete del ivery in many in
74 Z O N E T H ERAPY .

Dr G Murray E dwards of Denver Colorado

. .
, , ,

is O f pecul iar interest '

M rs M eK age 3 5 ; pregnant four and a

. .
,

hal f m o nths ; multipara P lacenta praevia ( a .

grave c o nditi o n in which the a fterbirth precedes

.

the child in del ivery ) aborted Dec 5 19 1 5 cu ,

.
, ,

rettement ( scraping o ut O f the uterus ) Dec 7 ,

.
,

19 1 5 Temperature 9 9 pulse 8 0 This case oc

.
,
.

curring during D r White s lecture course in .

’

Denver when Dr Fit z gerald s pressure method

, .
’

O f analgesia was being discussed I decided to ,

try it out for the fi rst t ime on this patient S he .

being a very nerv o us w o man I felt a l ittle re ,

lu ctant in the experiment I did not tell her .

,

however I was going to use a new method but

, ,

quietl y placed three elastics an eighth of an ,

inch wide on each foo t one around the l ar ge

, ,

toe at the fi rst j oint and one around the othe r s

,

similarly in pairs .

A fter fi fteen minutes preparing my instru

“

ment s in the meant ime I t o ld her we wer e ready , ,

and while we did not intend to use chlorofo r m ,

instructed her care fully to tell me imm edi a tely

if she felt any pain whats o ever The curette
ment was c o nducted in every detail as though she
were under general anesthesia and as I que s ,

tioned her frequently as t o pain she alway s ca m e ,

b ack with a smile and a negative repl y .

 P A I N LESS C I I I L DB I R T I I . 75

We removed fully a teacup ful o f placental

tissue in about ten minutes while the pat ient
,

passed the t ime j oking and when finished a s

,

sured me she felt much better than when we

started as she was nerv o us l oo king fo rward to
,

the anesthetic Thi s I c o nsider a typical case

.
,

and have n o misgivings as to it s working gen

”
erally .

In similar strain sc o res of letter s tell O f the

successes attending the employment O f thi s
method in labor and in o perati o ns upon women
,
.

N ow I do not contend that a few score or a

, ,

few hundred swallows make a summer but their ,

pre s ence undoubtedly indicates that summer

may be well on the way .

A ll this may sound fo o lish in the extreme .

Y et there are many other things equally fool ish

in the practice O f medicine A nd i f z one
analge s ia w ill do what we claim for it it may ,

well b e taken gently by the hand li fted ou t O f ,

the fool ish class and placed am o ng the ultra

,

—
s ensible procedures where by right it belongs
, , .
 C HA P T ER 7
Z O N E T H ERAPY F O R WO M EN .

N the eternal fitness O f things there would

be s o mething radically wr ong if zone
therapy did not O ffer s o me especial and
particular help to w o men It is a sati s fact ion to
.

state that the eternal fitness of things is right ,

as usual For zo ne therapy is as unique in this

.

connecti o n as in m o st O f it s other appl ications .

Many of the things it does are positively

s tartling A nd yet they bec ome commonplace
.
,

a fter one has been in the w o rk for a time O ne .

O f the most striking cases that has yet come to

my attent i o n came in the form Of a letter O f

thanks fr o m a m o ther O f a young girl I ne v e r .

saw either The mother however wrote me

.
, ,

that her daughter w ho had not menst ruated in

,

ten months was s o me time ago inst ru cted by

, , ,

a pat ient O f mine t o take the br o ad handle Of a

tablespo o n and make strong pressure upon the
tongue ( a tongue depressor shown in Fig 1 7 .

w o uld be m o re appr o priate ) as far back as she

,

c o uld stand it with o ut gagging .

S he did s o and within five minutes was men

,

( 76 )
 Z O N E T H ERAPY FO R WO M EN . 77

stru ating p r ofuse ly yet w ithout the slightest ,

pain or discom fort In the severa l m o nths .

” “
which h a d since intervened she came around ,

regu larl y e v e r y twenty e ight days The mother -

.

who fea r ed th a t her daughter was going into a

d ecline could not re frain from writ ing me a
,

FI G . 17 . Tong p e o
u e- r ss r E le c tro d e M ay be us e d w i th or wi th o t
u

l c t i c i ty
.

e e r .

most heartfu ll l etter O f appreciation for what my

p a ti ent through my instructi o n had been able t o
, ,

d o for her daughter I call thi s go o d prevent ive

.

medi cin e .

P a infu l men s truat ion ( dysmenorrhoea ) also ,

yi eld s l i k e m a gi c to the potent p r essure O f a

“
78 Z O NE T H ERAPY .

pro b e applied to the p o ster i o r ( back ) w all Of the

pharynx But the t o ngue pressures are in the
.
,

maj or ity O f case s quite as e ffective F or pain

,
.

in the back o r thighs preceding or during men

,

str u ation pressure with the tip Of the index

,

finger on the p o steri o r wall O f the pharynx on

the median l ine and to the r ight and le ft Of same ,

will almost uni formly give rel ie f .

A broad r o ugh sur faced t o ngu e depre ssor

,
-

( see Fig 1
. 7 ) i s best for the purpose But i f thi s .

is n o t available the handle O f a large spo o n or

,

the handle O f a t oo th brush may be used .

This sh o uld be applied t o the tongue thr ee

quarters O f the way back and o n the median l ine .

The patient s head sh o uld be held rigid and the

’

l o wer j aw supported t o the end that stronge r

,

pressure can be made It is well to have th e .

physician or some male member O f the fam ily

Of fi ciate in this as the patient may n o t be incl ined
,

to use the requisite amount O f force .

The pressure should be held fi rmly for tw o

minutes Then it sh o uld be relaxed and the point
.

O f focus changed slightly O r the inst ru ment

.

may be turned o r rotated fr o m side to side at ,

o ne minute intervals .

Man y patients who are o bliged to g O to b ed

for tw o o r three days each m o nth a ft er a cou r se ,

O f thi s t reatment ar e completely reli e v ed O f all

,
 Z O N E T H ERAPY FOR WO M EN . 79

distr es s Indeed s ome Of these h ar d ly kn ew

.
,

they were coming s ick

“
.

It might b e a dded that pressure e x e r ted on the

thum b fir st a nd second fingers Of b oth hands
,

help s materi al ly in this work A nd one of the .

mo s t com fo r ting fa ctors in the p ra ct ice is t h at

pat ie nts are usu a lly quite as well the ne x t morn
ing as the y ar e e v en directl y a fter the most suc
cessfu l treatment .

O cca s ion a lly the use of the metal com b on the

”
b ack O f the h a nd combing thorO ly the r egi o n
,
“

O f the thum b fi rst and sec o nd finge r s as far as

—
,

to the wrist s has gi v en best result s But the .

tongue pressu r es a r e most uni formly success ful .

Wh ile I ha v e seldom heard of a miscarriage

b eing induced by these pressures yet I b elieve a ,

note O f warning should be s o unded caut ioning ,

a gainst the use Of the t o ngue pressures par ,

ticu larly during the early months Of pregnancy .

F or it is quite concei v able that abortion might

follow dra s t ic tongue t reatment It would be .

far better during these months to depend upon

th e finger pressures or the comb for treatment O f
th es e zones .

A l s o i f there is a to o pro fuse and too frequent

,
- -

men s truat ion se v ere t o ngue pressures should be

,

a voi ded In these conditions gentle st rok ing on

.

the b a cks of the h a nd s with a wire h a i r b r ush

80 Z O NE T H ERAPY .

or the te eth of the metal com b ha s given b es t

results A nd this same procedure may b e con
.

fi d ently resorted to to prevent threatened a b o r

tion .

While not confined to women yet women a re ,

by far more generally a ffl icted with constipat ion

and hemorrhoids than are men Their s edentary .

habit s tight lacing and repugn ance to water

, , .

drinking make them peculiarly suscept i b le to the

—
c o st ive habit which in turn through engorge,

ment O f the hemorrh o idal veins causes piles ,

.

I ment i o n these subj ects here because the t reat

ment for const ipat ion and hem o r rhoids is ident
ical w ith that given for pain ful or suppre ssed
menstruat ion .

The result s in c o nst ipation are in some in ,

'

sta nces absolutely ast o nishing I know Of one

,
.

w o man const ipated for fi fteen years who never

, ,

knew what it meant t o have a natural movement

O f the bowels S he grasped the chair seat with
.

the tips Of her fingers and thumbs putting all ,

her strength int o this grip — so as partly to

desensiti z e the pain O f tongue pressure a nd ,

thereby be able to stand a more drast ic treatment .

Then the tongue was fi rmly pressed for nine

minutes in the manner before described .

H er bowels moved within fi fteen m i nu te s

82 Z O NE T H E R APY .

I f z one therapy i s used in this manner the re

,

su lts will ama z e and delight. F or no method y et

evolved for the t reatment Of these disorders even
r emotely approximates zo ne therap y in point of
e ffi cacy
.
 C HA P T ER 8 .

R ELA X I NG NER V OU S T E N S I ON .

E RH A PS y o u may n o t do it Y ou have .

such splendid c o nt r o l over yoursel f But .

y o u kn o w many pe o ple w h o when angry , ,

or when su ffer ing great physical pain sink their ,

teeth into their lip S ometimes they bite ha rd

.

enough to start the bl oo d O thers clinch their .

teeth and hands and d o uble thei r toes up in their

,

W h y d o y o u supp o se they d o this They

?

d o these and many o ther natural and apparently

,

inevitable things because thev are inst inctive and

,

scientific and because N ature kn o ws her busi

,

ne ss We have d o ne and S hall c o nt inue t o d o

.

them involuntarily and aut o mat ically because ,

they relieve pain and nerve tensi o n because they ,

p r od
‘
u g e a i orm O f analgesia or pain deadeni
, ng -
.

S im ila r to that wh ich foll o ws the inj ecti o n O f

wate r or s o me anesthetic s o lut i o n int o a sensorv

ne r ve I f you stop and thin k for a m o ment many
.

ex a mples Of this inhibition

—
as it is called will
r e cu r .

O ne Of the most interest ing fr o m our stand ,

poi nt w a s th a t O f a young scho ol te a cher su b

, ,

( )
83
84 Z O NE T HERAPY .

ject to cata l eptic fit s

, w h o when,
she felt o ne O f
her fi ts c o ming on stepped on her right toes with
,

all the weight she could throw on the le ft fo ot at ,

the same time grasping the right w r ist fi rmly .

— —
O ften those near if n o ti fied in t ime would p ro
duce 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 ch r onic irritat ion in the r ight ovary and al so a,

strained conditi o n O f the muscles O f accommoda

tion in the r ight eye When these conditions
.

were cleared up by prope r r emedia l measures

and correcti o n the cataleptic attacks ceased
,
.

The fact O f rel ie f having fo llowed in many in

”
stances her inhibiting the right sided z ones in
“
-

d icated the possible source O f troubl e A nd b y

.

painstakingly examining the organs in these

Z ones the cause of her condit ion was l ocated and
fi nally ove r come .

S O as a means of diagnosi s z one therapy ha s

,

an immense value Its curat ive e ffects howeve r

.
, ,

are m o st valuable and signi ficant Many O f the .

gravest nerve conditions conditions which

failed t o resp o nd t o the m o st S killed medical t r ea t
—
ment o b tainable anv w h ere have been comple tely
and permanently cured b v the app l i cati on of the
—
pr o p e r pr e ss u r e s p roper ly made .
 RELA X I NG NER V O US T ENS I O N . 85

I r ecal l a v ery gra v e case O f neur o si s a

’
—
writer S c ram p accompanying a neu r asthenic
—
condit ion 1 hi s lady unusuall y a lert and intel
’

—
.

lig ent was a p h y sical and nervous wreck S leep .

”
less harassed by nerves in their most agg ra
,

v ated fo r m she was unable to hold a pen or to

, ,

wri te mo r e than a few minutes at a t ime unt il , ,

on acc o unt Of the pain and twitching O f the a r m ,

wrist and fingers she was forced to desist S he

, ,
.

c o u ld no mo r e have picked up and threaded a

—
needle let alone ha v e sewed with it than she —
c o uld ha v e o p e r ated an aer o plane S he was also
.

nearly deaf from a middle ear t rou b le .

’
S e v e r al months t r eatment usin g the aluminum
,

com b a c r os s the front and bac k O f the hands and

on the finge r tips and daily emplo y ment of the
,

tongue dep r esso r for four or five minutes ,

’
b r ought a b out a complete change in the pat ient s
condition .

It r ela x ed the te rr ible nervous tension which —

was p a r ticu lar l y marked a l o ng the course O f the
—
Spine en a b ling her to S leep at night a nd awake ,

thoroly r ested and r efreshed in the morning The .

w r ite r s c ra mp was also completely cleared up A

’
.

num b er Of other condit i o ns w ere al so corrected ,

and the h earing was improved quite

T h is lad y has S ince resumed her o ccupation as
—
a pr i v a te s ec r et ary a po s iti o n she w a s fo r ced by
86 Z O N E T H ERAPY .

ill health to relinquish m o r e than two yea rs ag o

and n o w writes for hours a t a stretch without ,

any return of the cramp in the hand and arm .

A nd m o st c o nvincing of all she can now not

, ,

only pick up thread and h o ld a need l e s ome

, ,
—
thing she had not been able t o d o for yea r s
but she can sew steadily for tw o o r three h o u r s ,

and feel no disagreeable e ffect s from this fem

inine de b auch .

A peculiarly sati s fact o r y character istic in all

these cases is that the improvement i s even mo r e
”
apparent the m o rning a fter than it is imme
“

d iately a fter the treatment .

A nothe r case O f neurit is in the arm and

sh o ulder ( brachial neurit is ) for more than six
years had been unable t o raise hi s arm higher
than the sh o ulde r F o r the tw o months p r evious
.

to t reatment he had been o bliged t o carry it in a

S l ing The slightest m o vement of the arm br o ught
.

ab o ut a par o xysm o f agoni z ing pain .

A number of h o ll o wed ou t S pring clothesp ins

-

were clamped o n the fingers of the a ffected a r m

( see Fig . and le ft the r e for twelve minutes .

A t the expirati o n of this time the clamp s we r e

removed .

The pat ient gingerly to o k his a r m from it s s up

p o rt and a fter a minute o r two S pent in ex p eri
,

menting with it m o ved it freely up behin d hi s

.
 RE LA x t N G N E RV O U S T E N S I O N . 87

he a d a nd s wun g it b ehind his b a c k in a sw eepin g

mot i on .

It wa s s u b s equently found that this man al so

h a d a n os teo pa thic lesi o n which w as r educed by
,

—
D r R eid K ellogg and afte r a few w eek s home
.
,
’ “

”
treatment consist ing of five minute a pplic a

ti o ns of mode ra tely tight rub b er b ands ar o und

—
the ends of the fi ng ers he reported himsel f as
— ‘
well and h as r emained so for mo r e than ten
month s .

F or sci a tic neurit is it is found that deep p r es

sures with the teeth O f an aluminum o r steel com b
mad e upon the toes are much m o r e e ffecti v e than
when made tipon the fi ngers When pa in i s most
.

se v e r e on the b a c k O f the leg p r essures S hou l d b e

m a d e upon the b al l ( s o le ) of the foot ( S ee Fig
. .

When the fr o nt of the leg pains als o the ,

top Of the foot should al s o be pressed .

Whil e we a re on the subj ect of sciat ica I might ,

em ph as i z e the imp o rtance of a ca r eful e x amina

tion of the condit ion of the wisdom teeth F or .

ve ry frequ entl y we have found th is to be the

ori g i n of the s c iatic nerve trou b le .

A nothe r interest ing case successfully t reated

,

with clothespin s was that of a youn g man suf

,

fering from h a nd t remors insomnia a nd nerv

, ,

ou s e x haustion .

H e h a d his finger tips c lamped d a i ly f o r a

88 ZONE T H E R AP Y .

week Then three t imes m o re at inter v al s of

.
,

three days A fter the eighth treatment he had

.

no further tr o uble w ith trem o r S lept l ike a baby , ,

and was apparently relieved of all nerv o us

symptoms .

FIG . 18 .
— S h o wi ng met h o d
a oftre t i ng h e m t i m
a r u a s or s c i t i c by
a a

t e t i ng
r a a ll fi ve zo ne on t h e b c k
s a of t h e l eg d bo dy
an .
0

We have fo und it help ful if the pat ient ha s ,

a g oo d set of teeth t o have him cl inch the t eet h

, ,

and al s o the hands for several minutes at a t im e

, ,

three o r f o ur times daily Thi s produce s an .

exaggerated degree of relaxati o n which is m ost ,

help ful in o verc o ming nerv o us condit i o n s .

90 Z ON E T H E R A P Y .

FIG . 19 .
—Pat i ent
e v enty t w o ye r f g w i t h c c i nom f l e ft
s -
a s o a e ar a o

sid e f t o ng e j w d p h ryn T w o d y b fo t h i p i c t e w
o u , a , an a x . a s e re s ur as

t k en t h e p t i ent w
a a n b le t o pen h i mo t h T h folde d h n d
as u a o d s u . e a s an

O pen m o t h i n dic te not only re l

u a t i o f th j w b t t h e met h od i n
ax a n o e a s, u

w hich i t w bro g h t bo t D J W H og n p i nle ly t c ted e i g h teen

as u a u . r . . . a a ss ex ra

teet h f t hi p t i ent n d e pre re ne t h e i

or s a u r ssu a s s a .
 RELA X I NG NER V O U S T E N S I O N . 91

FIG 20 —P t i ent w i t h i g h t h n d i n t hi p i c t re i i n dic t i ng w i t h

. . a r a s u s a

i n d e d m idd le fi nger t h e l o c t i on f hi p i n d h o w h e i ove

x an a O s a an s r

c o mi ng it t h r pre e on t h e m f t h e ch i wi t h t h e t i p o f t h e
,

u ssu r ar o a r s

t h mb d fi nge f t h e le ft h n d
u an rs O el d om
a . o b l i g d t o re o rt t o
s a re e s

d g fo p i n e v en i n m l i g n c y
ru s r a ,
a na .
92 Z O NE T H ERA P Y .

A b od v o f men apparently in the last stage s o f

,

exhausti o n r ecuperate their energies with from

,

fi v e to fi fteen minutes exerc ise of this kind

’

It can r eadily be seen how by these exerc i ses

, ,

all the zo nes in the body would b e sti mul a ted to

a n o rmal condit i o n A
.nd the fact that the ex er
I

cises pract iced are success ful on a w h o l esale

scale p r oves th e principle sound .

O ne of the m o st imp o rtan t things A mer ican s

have to learn is h o w t o relax A nyth ing th a t
.

will teach them t o d o this S hould pro v e a boon .

There fo re I feel certain th a t b e fore many ,

v ears the princ iple s and pract ices of Z one

,

therap y w ill be as famil iar and univer sally ap

plied as are now the princ iples of dome stic

h y giene or the prac tice of ster ilizi ng ba b y
b o ttles A nd then zo ne therap y w ill add to the
dep th and breadth as well as to the le ngth of
.

human li fe .
 C HA P T ER IX .

C UR I N G LU M B A G O W IT H A C O M B .

H ERE is a sol id and substantial sa tis

fact ion in having lumbago Fo r we .

know with o ut being told that we have

, ,

it and we don t have to work ou r imagination

,
’

overtime p r oviding it with symptoms .

A lso lumbago O ffers less enc o uragement to

,

mental or psychological heal ing than m o st any

thing o r dinary w e c o uld gather u p — except a
b r o ken leg a crop O f boils or an abscessed t oo th
, ,
.

—
A nd the same thing applies to its S isters in laws -
,

rheumat ism and sciat ica .

Th er e fo r e anyt h ing that cures lumbago

, ,

rheumatism sciatica or similar a fflict i o ns must

, , ,

“ ”
b e a b le to del iver the g o ods .

O n this basis z one therapy must be c o nsidered

one of ou r most valuable meth o ds for treating
these o b st inate cond it ions N aturally it is n o t .

a l w ays successful N either are the salicylates

.
,

hot mud b aths por o us plaste rs n o r having teeth

, ,

p ul led A nd this is n o m o re an ap o l o gy for

.

z on e t h erapy than it i s f o r medicine .

Lu mb ago as a ru l e respond s v e ry quic kly a n d

, ,

( 93 )
94 ZON E T II E RA P Y

kindl y t o zo ne therapy Cases which come to .

”
the o ffi ce all d o ubled up are straightene d ou t
fr equently in o ne treatment and wen d
their h o me \ ard way rej o icing
'
.

The weap o n which has given us best results

in at tacking lumbago and kindred a ffections i s a
c o mm o n dull p o inted aluminum comb such as
.
-
.

mav be pr o cured in m o st bird stores for d og

c ombing purp o s es The teeth o f th is are pre ssed
.

fi rmlv o n the palm s o f the hands and on the

p alm ar sur face of the thumb fi rst second and . .

third fingers I II o rder to get the best re sul t s

.

the pre ssur es sh o uld b e c o ntinued for from ten

t o tw entv minu tes O ccasion all y it mav b e

.

necessa rv to w ork al so on the w eb b et w een th e

“

thumb and fi r st fi n g er and al so b etwee n t he fi r st

.

and second fi n g er .

S om e z on e th er ap y en thu sia sts pre fer to b eg in

ope r a t i on s on th e t ip s o f th e thum b fi r st sec ond . .

and third ri n g er s g ra d u allv w o rki n g u p th e

p a l m s o f t h e h a n d s a n d sp e nd i n g fi v e mi nu t es

for g ood measu re on th e w ri st s .

R em em be r al w ay s th at th e p alm ar su r faces
o f the h and s and fi n g er s are to be a tt ack ed for

a i ns a nv w here on the b ack an d t h to o

p . e p r

( b a c k ) s u r fac e s o f th e h an d s a n d fi n g e r s f or

on the front of the b od v ms

“
e
. ar or
see m rather con fu sing at fi r st ,
 C UR I N G LU M B AGO W IT H A C O M B . 95

but a l ittle tho u ght will make clear why what ,

are commonly known as the back of the hand s

are really the front o r t o p and correspond with
,

the front or top of the feet The palms of the .

hands corresp o nd with the soles o f the feet .

It is al so interesting to note that frequently

there are foi md areas wh ich are extra sensitive
to the pressures of the c o mb .

These areas correspond to the m o st painful

zone s in other sect i o ns of the b o dy F o r in .

stance i f fi rm pressure o n pa lmar sur faces of

,

right hand elicits m o re pain thr o ugh the third

zone in the hand i f the patient has already com
,

p l ained O f pain in hi s back S uch pain will usual l y

,

b e found in the third zo ne and thi s h o lds go o d

,

where pain i s c o ncerned thr o ughout the body .

I f these sensitive areas are f o und by com ,

mencing gent l y and gradua lly increasing the

force Of the pressure to lerati o n can be estab
,

lish ed. In devel o ping thi s tolerati o n the lu mb ag ,

i s u sually relieved .

S ome per fectly ama z ing resu lts have b een re

por te d from the comb meth o d of treatment par ,

ticu larly in lum b ago O ne case a m inister who

.
, ,

for w ee ks had been unab le even to turn in bed

,

w ithout assistance was a fte r a t w enty minute

, ,
-

tr eatm ent a b le to ari se and w a lk unaided

,
He .

w as ent i r ely relieved of pain and discom f o rt

96 Z O NE T H E R APY .

within a few hours and the ne x t d ay wa s u p

,

”
and around R el ie f almost always follows the
.

fi rst t r eatment apparently irrespect ive as to the

,

cau s e Of the lum b ago I recall a r ecent case .

which had pe r si sted for more than three month s .

This gentleman had taken pract ically e v e ry form

of t r eatment that c o uld be rec o mmended by the

most able spec iali st s had even b een to H ot ,

S prin g s with out any except transient b ene fit

, .

H e was bent almost d o uble and for many weeks ,

had not been a b le t o stand erect This patient .

w as given tw o aluminum combs and told to

squeeze them for ten or fi fteen minutes wh ile ,

waiting in the ante r o om A fter b eing brought

-
.

”
into the ofli ce his hands were thoroly com b ed
,

by pre s sure from finger tip to wrist

. .

H e s traightened o ut comp letelv a ft er thi s fi rst

t reatment and expressed h i m sel f as en tirelv
,

relieved fr o m pain H e received a S imilar treat

.

ment the fo llowing day — a fter which h e went

his way rejoicing .

These results are practically uni form I .

know of many scores of patients thus cured with

a com b .

S ometimes equa ll y good result s follow f r om

fastening hollow ed out spr ing clothespi n s on the
-

ti ps of th e fi nger s ( Fi g co rr e spondin g to
.

the z ones in which the l umb ago h ol d s for th O r .

 '

98 ZONE T H ERAPY .

about ten m inutes the whistle blew and the con ,

ductor had suddenly to leave hi s chair H e .

”
st raightened up and went ou t on the run “
.

When he came back he laughed an d sa id '

’
This is the fi rst t ime in si x weeks I ve gotten up
or moved with o ut pain What in thunde r ha v e
.

those little ru b ber bands to do with lum b ago ,

”
anyway ?

The doctor saw this man be fore l ea v ing the

t ra in tw o hours a ft erwards an d the t r ainman ,

v oluntee r ed the information that so f ar a s th e

lum b ago i s concerned I have no more feel ing
”
than a fish . A nd these result s c a n b e dupl i
cated b y any o ne who will study the zo n e charts

( Figures 1 and and apply t h e S imple tech n ic

o utl ined
.

N aturally in sciatic a and in articular or j oint

, ,

rheumat ism the results h a ve not b een S O uni

,

f o rmly fav o rable F o r sciatica may b e due to

.

hip j oint dislocat i o n Indeed one of ou r most

.
,

fam o us b o ne surgeons claims that all c a s es of

sci at ica result fr o m a twi st or su b luxat ion of,

th e hip j oin t w hich certainly i s not true of those

cas es cur ed w ith a c o mb o r by electrici ty or b y

, ,

so m e m edi c a l m ea sure .

In tr ea ting s ciat i ca particular attent ion must

b e g iv en th e hip a r ea of the ha nd on the same
“

si d e as the sci at i ca This mea ns th at the pa lm ar

.
 C UR I N G LU M B AGO W IT H A C O MB . 99

s ur face of the ring a n d little fi nger and the pa l m

” “
Of the hand on that side as we l l a s th e edge ,

Of the palm running up over the top of the hand

,

mu s t b e thoroughly com b ed .

But the b est and most rapid re l ief for sci a tica
”
is u sually s ecured by a ttac k ing the sole s of the“

feet — using the com b in the same manner and

for the s a me areas as descri b ed for the hands .

In other wo r ds by manipulating the zone s in the

,

-
feet co rr esponding to the z ones in the h a nds .

D r G eorge S tarr Whit e of L O S A ngele s Cal i

.
, ,

fornia has invented a mechanical device f o r this

,

purpo se consisting Of a piece Of hard wood

,

a bout fi v e inches in length cut with deep screw ,

l i k e threads ( see Figures 16 and A hea v y ,

s mooth r ope is attached to each end of this im

p l ement of b attle and the patient uses it with a
,

long strong pull for fi v e o r ten m inutes at a

—
,

time repeating the maneuver several t imes

d aily P ossi b ly any r o ugh surfaced home made
.
-
,
-

device might give equa lly good results .

In a cute articu lar rheumat ism where there ,

a r e no gross pathologica l changes or sti ffening

in the j oints splendid resu lts ha v e f o llowed the
,

u s e of com b s It S h o u ld be remembered that the

.

hip area c o rresp o nds with the sh ou lder o n the

same s ide the knee with the elb o w and the ankle
, .

w i th the wr ist etc a nd pain i s Often overc o me

,
.
,
100 Z O NE T I I E RA P Y .

more quickly by attacking corre s ponding part s

with pressure or stimulati o n .

O ne old lady who s u ffered terri b ly in the j oint s

of both hands and w ho had not b een a b l e to S leep
,

for weeks without an opiate e x perienced com ,

p let e relief a fter a ha l f dozen treatment s w ith

the comb over the tips of her finger s and thum b
( Fig . A nd S h e was a b le to sleep soundly
there a fter without the use of her u s ual hypnot ic .

A v ery interesting c a se of gonorrhea ] a rth r iti s

’
was reported recently Thi s m a n s r ight knee .

j oint was S O pain ful that he could not b ea r to

h a ve it touched To b end the right leg at the
.

knee was ou t Of the question .

’
Two minutes pressure on the top and b ottom ,

as well as on the t ip of the b ig toe completely re ,

liev ed the pain and upon testing the j oint the

,

soreness seemed to have vanished The doctor .

then b egan care fu lly b ending the knee and to hi s ,

surprise and to the ama z ement of the p a tien t

,

’
who hadn t the slighte s t idea what wa s b ein g at
tempted the knee could be fl exed ( b ent ) per
fectly without any pain whatever
, .

A S this d o ct o r makes a specialty of treating

painful j oints by means o f heat light mud b ath s , , ,

and elect ricity and has had a great deal of e x

,

p e r ien ce in this work we were much, grat ifi e d to

hear him say that o f all the cases he ha d e v e r
102 Z ON E T H ERA PY

neck had for months S lept upon san d b a gs to

, ,

give him neck support I c a ute r i z ed the necks

.

of his teeth ( always lo o k to the condition of the

teeth in wry neck ) with a fine pl at inum poi nt

c a utery ( which is merely a direct w ay of stim
ulating all the z ones ) and in a few d ay s thi s
,

y o ungster was up and running around as w e ll a s

e v er.

O ther cases of wry neck have been quite as

r e a dily cleared up by combing the appropriate
finger s on the palm of the hand of the side in
volved or by pressing with a c o tt o n tipped pro b e
-

on the proper z ones o n the posterior w a ll of the

throat or on the under sur face o f the ton gue and
,

on the floor o f the m o uth under the ton gu e .

Most medical men with o ut stopping longer

,

than tw o seconds t o think ab o ut it wil l a ffi rm

,

that all these things are r idiculous and absur d .

This y o u remember was what contempo r a r y

, ,

scientists t o ld G alen and H arvey and also what

,

the astr o nomers t o ld G alile o .

We spoke in a S imilar strain of radio a cti v ity ,

the fourth dimensi o n wireless telegraphy and

, ,

aerial navigation .

Many erudite members of the medic a l p rofes

sion claim that z o ne therapy and z one anal gesia
might be interesting i f found in Gu ll i v er s ’

Tr a v e ls or Muncha u sen s R oma nce s b u t that

’

,
 CU R I N G L U M B AG O W I T H A C O MB . 10 3

emp h a tical ly they h a ve no pl a ce in medica l l iter

ature F or ever y o ne knows that an egg c a n
.

not b e made to stand on end .

Y et we are standing thi s medical egg on end

e v er y da y .

A nd there is no reas o n in the w o rld why any

inte l ligent man or woman let al o ne any intelli
,

gent doctor cann o t do likewise and put these

, ,

simple and help ful meth o ds int o practical ap p li

cation F or it doesn t even require faith
.
’
.
 C HA P T ER X .

S C RA T C H I NG T II E IIA N D
'

FOR S I C K STO M A C H .

ANY of u S know that i f we are thr eat

ened with snee z ing and we p r e ss the
upper lip tightly against the teeth w ith
the finger s that we can usually stop the snee z e
,
.

A lso that if we dr o p a c o ld piece of metal down

,

the back o r press a piece of ice against the b ac k

,

of the neck it will frequently check nosebleed

,
.

But not many of us know th a t the re a son these

things are thus is because by these actions we , ,

are stimulat ing normal function in the fi rst zone .

Were we to press our cheek over the wi sdom

tooth which is in the f o urth z one or ru b the
ice o n our third zo ne car the snee z e and the nose
,

b leed would pursue uninterruptedly the e v en

tenor of their ways .

I f y o u never had heard o f these things y ou ,

“
would pr o bably say pish and l oo k around w ith
,

s o me trepidati o n for y o ur in fo rmant s k eeper ’

.

Y et in all earnestness and sincerity I would i f

, , ,

you are o ne o f those wh o se st o mach is eas ily

upset urge th at the next time y o u boa r d a tra i n
,

or b oat y ou arm y o ursel f with a wire h a i r b r u sh

a nd a metal comb .
10 6 ZO N E T H E R A P Y .

FIG —W h en I fi t w t hi p t i ent ( Jn y 9
. 2l . rs thsa s a a u ar ,
e eu

l rgement i n t h e ne c k p ono n c e d c n c e
a nd i nope ble by ome of
r u a r, a ra ,
s

be t men i n N w E ngl n d w tony h d d e c eed i ngly p i n f l

,

o ur s e a , as s ar an x a u

to t h e to ch S h e h d not been b l e to l i e do w n f or n i n mo t h
u . a d a e n s, an

h d a ot t k en
n y a ol id foo d foan t h ee mont h ; c o l d open t h e mo t h
s r r s u u

on l y l i g h t l y
s d wi t h gre t di ffi c l ty
, an W i n d c e d pee d y l t i on of
a u . e u s re ax a

t h e ne c k ( i t w b ol te l y re l e d i n fo r t e tment ) t h o gh p e e
as a s u ax u r a s r u r ssu r

wi t h d ry c otton —w o d p p l ic t o r d l o wi t h pen ci l mo i te e d w i t h
a un a a an a s a s n

tr ich lo r c et ic cid i n v r i e d trengt h f om t w enty fi p c e t to

a a a s t s r -
ve er n a sa

u ra e t d ol t i o n t h r o g h o t t h e p rop i te z one i n th mo t h no
s u , u u d a p r a s e u ,
se an

ep i p h yn ar T hi p t i ent re p o n d q i c k ly to p e e
x . s a d cc t ly s s u r ssu r , an a u ra e

tr c e e t i o n f glo w or n mbne f om t h e mo t h to t h e tre mi t i e

a s s n sa s o u ss r u ex s

an d v ic e ver T h e e e t i on
sa . l mo t i mme di tely follo w ed b y
s s n sa s a re a s a

l i ne of ne t h e i N ote t h e ne c k f t hi p t i ent ( F ig 22 ) f o te n
s a s s a . o s a see . ur e

m o nt h l ter P t i ent t h ro g h pre re on fi nger of z one i nv ol v d k ep

s a . a u s su s s e e s

S id e of ne c k c on t ntly ne t h et i z e d d t h e e f o e f f om i it t i on
s a a s , an r r ree r rr a ,

wi th co n t nt b o pt i on of g o w t h
s a a s r r .
 S C R AT C H I N G H A N D F OR S I C K S T O M A C H . 10 7

FI G —P h otog p h o f p t i ent i n F i g
. 22 . ra e v ente n mont h
a 21 s e s te
af r

fi t tre tm t A f t t h e ye r i mp ove ment t i ll c ont i n e

.

h er rs a en . er re a s r s u s .
108 Z O NE T H ERAP Y .

brush or with the teeth of the comb I f these

, .

are n o t available scratch with the finge r nails ,

but as w ith the pressures the most fa v orable

, ,

results foll o w the use Of metal .

R emember that scratching stimulates while ,

deep pressure with the teeth of the com b fi nger ,

nails or wires of the hair brush rela x es .

A lso the next time the b aby i s restless and in

clined to d o uble up and yell murder in s tead of ,

doing a slippered const itut i o nal up a nd down the

room with him scratch the backs of his h a n ds
,
.

I f he s had too much to eat this may quiet him

’
.

” ” “
I f however his l ittle tummy is working
, , ,

try some pressures on his hands o r feet and see ,

”
h o w soon the tummy will knock O ff w or k
“
.

A nd for the same su fficient rea s on s t ry the

, ,

same thing on y o ur sel f and the f a mily instead ,

”
of b anging the st o mach o ver the head with a
“

d o se of dope .

The m o rning S ickness of pregnancy yi eld s

quite uni fo rmly t o deep pressures on the b acks
of the hands and it is much safer to try a nd
,

c o ntr o l this nausea fr o m the hands th a n it would

b e to resort t o the severe pressures on the
t o ngue F o r these latter i f too dra s tic m ight
.
, ,

pr o duce a mi scarriage .

A ls o whi le it isn t exactly z one the r ap y it

,
’

,
1 10 Z O NE T H ERAPY .

were able to retain food t a ken into the stom a ch ,

and pract ically conduct the ent ire su b sequent

course of their ow n cu r e .

To disabuse the minds of any who m a y evol v e

the idea that zone therapy is of v alue only in con
”
d itions that don t matter anyhow
“ ’
I want to
,

emphasi z e that these cases were most gr a v e and ,

that they had rece i v ed skil led medical attent ion

for many weeks without apparent bene fi t .

It has been current knowledge e v en b efore

those halcyon days when the banquete r r et i red to
have his throat tickled by a dutiful S la v e that
by touching de finite areas in the throat and at
the base of the tongue — v omitin g could be in
d u ced .

A nd now we have discovered how to put the

reverse E nglish on the tickle and keep it down
,

when it want s to come up Which di sco v ery

.

should al s o help increase the sum total of the

world s health and happiness
’
.
 C HA P T ER X I .

HAY F E V ER AS T H M A AN D T O NS I L ITI S
, .

F the U nited S tates H ay Fe v er A ssoci a tion ,

and all indi v idual s w ho su ffer from h a y

fe v e r will read care fully and then app l y
— —
, ,

thi s ch ap te r as di rected the r av ages of these

ca t a rr h al cataclysms I feel sure will be be a ut i
, ,

fully le s sened .

For zone the rapy has an especial and pecul i ar

message for hay fev erites It has mitigated i f
-
.
,

not enti r ely r el ie v ed the red eyed misery of hun

,
-

d r eds Of them A nd none

.
— except those w ho
have been v ictims can kn o w what a rea l r elie f
this i s .

N obody knows for certain what causes hay

fe v er and j udging fr o m the textbo o ks the y
, , ,

know e v en less regarding any de finite method of

relie v in g it
.

It i s possi b le that r epeated colds general l y

f r om dust in fection re sult in a chronic irrita
tion O f the mucous membrane f o ll o wed by a ,

thickening ( o r hypertr o ph y ) o f the t issues .

This thicken ed t i ssu e da ms the circu lati o n of

b l oo d in the membranes and presse s u p on the
,

( I I I)
1 12 Z O NE T H ERAPY .

delicate nerves of the nose there by i r ritating ,

them which irritat i o n proves to b e the l a st st r aw

, .

S O the nerves of the nose throw up b o th hands

with a despairin g moan .

A n acute inflammatory irritat ion i s e sta b

lished sett ing up a vicious circle
, Fo r the p r e s .

sure causes nerve irritation and the ner v es re ,

taliate by still further disturbin g the circulation ,

thereby causing more pressure .

Then if really it i s pollen that causes the

,

physi o log ical confl ag ration we call hay fe v e r the ,

mucous membrane is so susceptible that it will

readily resp o nd to the act ion O f the pollen .

Which is probably al so true o f those cases that

develop S imilar condit ions from the odor of r oses ,

horses or cats .

It is signi ficant however that of all the hun

, ,

dreds O f hay fever patients that have e v er come

-

under my care n o t o ne had an absolutely no r ma l

n o se Invariably there w ere b o ny s p urs pro
.
,

tru d ing turbinate b o nes cartilages twi sted ou t,

of pr o per alignment an inflamed and thickened

,

muc o s membrane lmtng o r s o me o the r p atholog

,

ical condition o ne usually requi ring su rg ica l

.

inter ference .

S O if y o u have o r expect t o ha v e hay fe v er

, ,

o r any o ther abnormal c o ndit ion o f the nasal

mucous membranes see a speciali st and hav e,
1 14 Z O NE T H ERAPY .

that the pressures have an immediate and power

fu l e ffect up o n abnormal conditions in this zone .

A t the same time the upper l ip S hould b e fi rmly

f o rced against the teeth with the fi r s t fi nger .

This usually has a most discouraging e ffect u p on

sneezin g .

P ressures with a cotton t ipped p r o b e on the

-

b ack wall of the pharynx ( the inside j unction Of

the nose and mouth ) as well as up on the muc o us
,

mem b ranes of the nose gi v e in the hands of

, ,

physicians the quickest r esu l ts The cotton

, .

tipped p robe mav be dipped in tr ichloracetic ac id ,

” “
or some pungent agent which will lend punch
,

to the c o ntact impul se .

A curious feature in connecti o n with this pro b e

therapy i s that if the patient by coughi ng re , ,

sent s the presence o f the instrument s the e ffect ,

seems to be dissipated In othe r wo r ds the

.
,

transmi ssion O f the ner v e impulse is partly in

h ib ited
. It is fair t o say howe v er that pat ients
, ,

become rapidly accustomed to what at fi r s t fre

quently caused irritation .

The use O f a tongue depressor co v e r in g the ,

”
center of the t o ngue fairly well fo r ward has “

als o been fo und m o st help ful i f pressed down ,

and held fi rmly several times a day for three

m inu tes o r m o re at a t ime In fact it is ex .
,

p e d ient to use the t ongue depressor in al mo st all

 II AY F E V ER A S T H M A AN D T O N S I LL IT I S
, . 1 15

nose th r o a t and stomach troubles

, or In fact ,

a ny co ndition occur ring in the front of the “

bod y.

The wearing of moderately tight ru b be r bands

upon the thumb fi rst and second fingers for ten
,

or fi fteen minutes ( or less i f the finger tips b e

,

come purple ) repeated several t imes daily seems ,

also to help materially Indeed some physicians

.
,

r eport that they get their v ery best results by

h av ing thei r patient s wear the bands as con
tinu ou sly as possible removing them only as
,

r equi r ed to prevent blood stasis and then replac

,

in g them a gain .

P r essures exe r ted w ith the finger and thumb

o v e r the j oint s O f the thumb fi rst and second
,

finge r s or toes have given excellent result s .

Three or four minute pressures with an alumi

-

num comb on all S ur faces of the thumb and fi rst

fin ger r epeated several t imes daily — have
also g i v en satis fact o ry relie f in hay fever .

A lways the breath sh o uld be taken thr o ugh the

nostrils I f the m o uth per sists in Opening at
.

ni g ht st r ap it S hut with i singlass plaster cut in

,

thin st rips .

The t reatment of asthma and o ther a ffecti o ns

of the r espirat o ry passages is v erv S imilar t o

th a t of hay fe v er except ing that instead of

, ,

p r essin g the t o ng u e more generally the floor o f

,
1 16 ZON E T I I E RA P Y .

the m o uth is manipulated for this pu r pose

”
the i mpu ls e i s thu s more direct .

S ome O f the results in asthma ha v e been little

sho r t of mi r aculous O ne patient su ffering with
.

br o nchial asthma had been unable to lie down

for three years what little sleep she secu r ed b e
,

in g taken propped in a chair H er sole relie f .

consisted in the hypodermic inj ection of fi ft een

drops of adrenalin solution practical l y ev erv ,

morning and night .

I made pressu r e on the pharyngeal wall at a ,

“ ” ” “
point low down where the metallic sens a tion
,

was reflected int o the bronchial re g ion A lso I .

u sed the pr o be on the fl o or of the mouth directly ,

beneath the ro o t of the tongue .

Within fi v e minutes this lady for the fi rs t

time in three years — was relie v ed of al l pain ,

tightness h o arseness and S hortness of b r eath

, ,
.

In tw o m o nths O f this treatment S h e gained

fi fteen p o unds and n o w S leeps through the night
,
.

A l s o she has been enabled c o mpletely to discon

,

tinu e her use of adrenal in .

A n o ther br o nchial asthmat ic su ffe r ed S O

severely that he had made all arrangement s e v en ,

to packing his trunks to retire fr o m business and

,

seek health o n the R iviera o r in E gy pt H is .

W hee z in g was S O pr o n ounced that he Could be

“

h ear d cle ar ac r o ss a twent y foo t r oo m T h is

— .
1 18 ZON E T I I E RA P Y .

liev ed the pain o f a bad case O f mumps by fasten

ing spr ing clothespins to the fi rst second and ,

third fingers of b o th her hands lea v ing them on

.
,

until the fi nger tips became quite pu r ple .

The l ittle lady pr o udly demonst r ated he r con

t r o l o v er the condition by takin g a mouth ful of
vinega r as a gargle Thi s as e v e ry doctor
.
,

knows is quite a crucial test

, .

In tonsilit is goo d result s almost inva r i a bly fol

low p r essure Over the inferior dental ner v e at a ,

point where it enters the j aw bone It r equi res .

considerable S kill to find this foramen ( as it is

called ) so thi s ad v ice i s really for doctor s only
,
.

P ressure may also be made with the finge r on a

p robe back of the anteri o r pilla r s ( mem b r anes
situated in front of the tonsil ) .

Y et much may be accompl ished me r ely b y

squee z ing the j oint s of the second thi r d and ,

fo urt h fingers and using a tongue dep r es so r on

,

the extreme S ides of the tongue .

A nd this rem inds me that a certain mini st er O f

my acquaintance has been teachin g h is B oy
S c o uts zo ne therapy meth o ds with especi a l r e f
,

erence to curing themselves of cough s and othe r

c o mm o n ailments The b oys al s o find it v alu a b l e
.

“
in their First A id t o the Inj ured work I c an .

readily understand that the analgesic e ffec ts O f

z o ne pressure sh o uld be e ffective in the c a m p a s ,
 H AY F E V E R AS T H M A A N D T ON S I LL I T I S
,
. 1 19

well as in the home or —

in the dead O f night
-

emergency .

Z one therapy opens up a tremendous field So .

the more expe r imenters we ha v e the sooner

e v e r y one will know j ust how t r emendous and
useful and marvel o us it i s .
 C HA P T ER X I I .

C UR I NG A S I C K V O IC E .

E all remember the g entleman in one

of M o liere s plays w ho was a s
’

tou nd ed to learn that he had been

talking prose all his li fe This verdant reminis .

cence has an almost universal application .

For instance U mberto S orrentino the g i fted

, ,

Italian tenor has for a number o f yea r s re

, . ,

liev ed the tight inflexible throat which i s

“

, ,

the bane O f vo calists and speakers by gras p in g ,

hi s tongue fi rmly in a handkerchie f p ullin g it a s ,

hard as could be com fortabl y b o rne and w r i g ,

gling it S low lv fr o m side to side This he says .

, ,

eases up throat tension and frees the v oice I t

,
.

als o has a tendency to abort a beginning cold .

H e was led to ad o pt thi s practice f r om O h

serving the bene ficial e ffects O f massage Of the
thr o at in stimulating and o therwi se impro v in g
the ci rculati o n and releasing the muscles from
the bound c o ndition which invariab ly ( in his
,

case ) fo reruns a cold H e reas o ned that i f e x

.

ternal massage was bene ficial internal ma ssa ge ,

”
sh o uld be even m o re so ; hence the wri gg l e ,
“
.

( 1 20 )
12 2 Z O N E T H ERAPY .

S I GN O R U M B E R T O S O R R E N T I N O ,

t h e n o te d ten o h
r, re l i eve t i g h t t h o t by m k i n t ong t c t i on
w o s
“ ”
r a a g s r ra

on t h e tong e B p e re o n t h e nter i o t hi d f t h e ton

u .
y r ssu a d r r O gu e , an
by t i m l t i ng t h e o t i d e l te l pe c t o f t h e fo fi nge ( w hi ch d i
s u a u s a ra as s re rs s

i l
t n ct y g vern t h e v o c l c or d ) S o rent i n o h e l i eve d hi m e l f d m ny
o a s r as r s an a

o f h i f r i end o f wh t p o m i e d to b e i o t h o c ond i t i on
s s a r s e s r us r at s.
 C UR I NG A S I C K V O I C E . 123

do t h ese things a nd in additi o n apply fi rm pr es

, ,

s ure on the flo o r of the m o uth beneath the ,

ton gu e with a c o tt on tipped metal pr o be ( see

,
-

Fi g. di pp ed in spirit s of camph o r or alc o hol

( to inc r e a se the thei r result s w o uld
b e f ar m or e certain and satis factory .

I n a ll c a ses of h o arseness huskiness or in l o ss

—
, ,

O f v oice due to i rritati o n o r strain as in

’
c l er g yman s sore thr o at these practices almost
in v ari a bly give relie f I remember a case of a
.

s o p rano whose u p per regi ster was c o mpletely

—
lost through l o ng c o ntinued st rain The floor .

Of he r mouth — di rectly under the t o n g u e and ,

up to the r oots of the l o wer incis o r teeth was ,

”
“
pr odded intermittentl y for a peri o d O f fi fteen
minutes with the metal pr o be The cotton o n
, .

the t i p O f the pr o be w as dipped in s o me pungent

a g ent for the pur p o se as be fo re stated of in
, , ,

c reasin g the nerve resp o nse “

.

M ar ked impr o vement foll o w ed the fi rst treat

ment S he w as h o wever caut i o ned not to at
.
, ,

tempt to use the v o ice except for a moment o r,

tw o after t reatment s t o Observe the e ffect .

The sin g er also carried o ut home treat

men ts consisting in fi v e minute firm applica
,
-

tions of a tongue depress o r ( see Fig 1 7 o n the .

cente r Of the t o ngue Thi s was d o ne e v ery four

.

h ou rs . In addi ti o n she squee z ed the sides o f

,
124 Z ON E T H E RA PY .

her thumbs Thi s acti o n especially i f a ec o m

.
,

p a nied b y digging the finger nai ls int o the inner

S ide of the thumb — which are a i s di stinctl y in
the v ocal ch o rd zo ne has a speci fic effec t upon
the v ocal chords Within three da y s thi s lad v
.

had com p letely recovered and was a b le to re ,

turn to her c o mpan y .

Z one therapy has in innumerable instances

, ,

rest o red s p eaking v o ices that we r e as lost as the

L ost H ope Indeed it i s of common occur rence
.
,

to ha v e a cler gy man a lawyer or a busi ness

, ,

man who has bec ome aphonic ( v oiceless ) f r om

long dictation or some other v ocal strain come
, ,

to the spec iali st in z one therapy unable to s p eak ,

abo v e a whisper and within a hal f hour g o h i s

,

w ay rej oicing — practically as g o od as new ” “

This by application of the probe on the fl oor

,

of the mouth pressures on the ton g ue and some

, ,

times pressures on the thumb and fin g e r s any ,

and all of which procedures can b e succe ss fu l l y

used by any intelligent man or woman in th e re
lie f of their own troubles or in curing t h ese ,

t roubles in their family .

R especting the finger pressures it mus t b e ,

borne in mind that it is necessary to w or k on

the part icular Z one involved For inst anc e i t .
,

would b e useless to make pressures ov e r th e

thumb j oints if the cause of the throat tr ou b l e
126 Z O NE T H ERAPY .

hand extending u p fr o m the thum b to t h e

,

wri st and o v er to the f o urth finger and l e ft to

, ,

his ow n devices for twenty fi v e minutes -

.

A t the expirat ion of this t ime he had relaxed

the tension of his j aw muscles and relie v ed t h e
irritat ion in his throat to such an extent t h at h e
went out and had a com fortable lunch R etu r n .

ing to the specialist s O ffice pressures were made

’

with a padded probe ( see Fig 9 ) on t h e wall .

of the pharynx the probe being introdu ced

through the nostril .

A lso he was given inst rumentation on th e

,

fl o or o f the m o uth underneath the tongue and

, ,

a c o nscienti o us treatment with a tongue de

press o r This weap o n he took home and used
.
,

carr y ing o ut als o the c o mbing of the back of

the hands Three d ay s a fterwards he sang in
.

the choir as well as ever .

Deep massage with the fingers on t h e muscles

”
of the throat and a ,
plucking of the v oice b ox
are als o helpful pr o cedures Where the i rr ita
.

ti o n o r the inflammati o n i s n o t extensi v e it

might be well t o include them as r o utine meas
ures in most throat t r o ubles W here t h ere i s .

act ive c o ngest i o n they are of course n o t only

, ,

us ele ss but actually harm ful

,
.

v erv fr eq u ent cause of v o cal ills and a ,

conditi o n m o st g enerallv ass ociated with a con

 C UR I N G A S I C K V O I C E . 12 7

g ested t h r o at i s a stu ffy nose A lso it i s

, .
,

q uite impossible to get a perfect v ocal resonance

i f the membranes of the nose are swollen and
con g ested with cold or catar rh “
.

The tongue and finger pressures do much to

.

relie v e these condit ions but perhaps the surest ,

and quickest meth o d o f curing them is to

“ ”
pencil t h e nose with a probe using t h e u n ,

co v ered steel for thi s purpose A nd I may h ere .

,

remark that the patient s o wn saliva is one of

,
’

the b est and least irritating lubricants for t h is

pro b e work in the nose .

The steel should be le ft in each n o stril several

minutes and gently m o ved back and f o rth from
,

time to time for the t o nic penciling or i ron

,
“

”
ing e ffect The curat ive influence of this on
.

chronic nasal catarrh or other pathological con

d itions of the nose is sometimes quite remark
a bl e .

A lso it might be well here t o add that

,

atomi z ers are useless except temp orarilv ,

— as
a fter exposure to a h o rde of snee z ers or cough
ers In thi s event an alkaline antisept ic may be
.
,

of v a l ue .

But the c onstant washing a w av of the natural

secreti o n o f th e muc o u s membrane o r the per ,

p e tu al c o at in g o ver o f the air passages with a

fi l m of O il — which prevents the natura l secre
12 8 Z O NE T H ERAP Y .

t ion f r om being n a tural i s di stinct ly inj ur io u s.

F or it tends to p rov o ke p erpetr a te and p er

,

p e tu ate all forms of cata r rh and none S hou l d

—
,

use them e x ce p t under p hysic i a n s instru c

’

tion and then for a sho r t t ime on ly S timu .

late no r mal funct ion w ith a probe or s ound use d ,

at ni ght be fore ret iring a nd in the morning on

,

arisin g and cu r e the c o ndit ion instead Of makin g

,

it chronic .

It wouldn t b e di fficult to get a ffi r m a ti v e e v i

'

den ce to the fact that a S ick v oice i s one of the

sickest and mo s t dishea r tening thin gs th at c an
be fall one w ho must depend upon it for a li v in g .

But w ith a little pat ience and an inte ll igent a p

, ,

plication of the principles O f z one the r apy i t i s ,

“
a cinch
130 Z O NE T H ERAP Y .

I f the savants of the v arious research institu

tions throu g hout the country are rea l ly S inc er e
in attemptin g to discover a cure for whoopin g
cough asthma g oitre and a score of ot h er con
, , ,

d itions conditions successfully treated b y zone

ther a py it wil l be easy to put this met h od to
t h e test .

I f they do not themsel v es care to make the

experiment I wil l come t o N ew Y ork and dem
,

on strate the method o n one or one hundred cases ,

and S how that in from one to a hal f dozen tr eat

,
-

ments with a steel pr obe whooping cough c a n ,

be e ffectively and permanently ov ercome Thi s .

may or may not b e worth the attention of these

gentlemen I can do no more than m a k e the
.

o ffer which I emphasi z e i s made in per fect

, , ,

good faith and in the interest of humanity and

science .

The most remarkable feature of a b rand new —

discovery is very frequently it s hoary headed —
ness For this reas o n when we come to t hink
.
,

a b out this matter of the mechanical re l i ef of

cough we are struck with it s antiquity F r o m
,
.

time antedating the me mo ry of man h umanity ,

has pressed its second finger in its pha r ynx

that space which spreads u t fr o m the b a ck
( o

part of the mouth and throat up into t h e no s e ) .

or t h e l ar y n x ( a continu a tion O f the p h ary nx ) ,

 A SPE CI FI C F O R C O U G H S . 13 1

for t h e purpose of l oosening a dry cough or to

facilitate expectoration .

A l l grandmothers e v er S ince there were

,

grandmot h ers have put thei r fin ger s in ba b ies

,
’

throats to gi v e them relief in croup S ome of .

the wi sest of these grandm o thers used to press

the h andle of a sp oo n on the back pa r t of the
tongue in order to ab o rt a beginning c o ld or
, ,

cause a pro fuse secreti o n of muc o us in condi

tions associated with a dry metallic cough ,
.

O ur old time cure for hiccoughs has the same

-

reason for its existence F o r when we grasp .

,

t he tongue of a hiccou g h er and with a long pull , ,

a st rong pull and a pull all together haul the

, ,

O ffending member t o t o ngue s length and hold

’

it there we cure the spasm o dic c o ntracti o n of

the diaphragm ( the cause of hicc o ugh ) b y in
fl u encing the z one in which the trouble origi
nates This i s the princ iple by which we cure
.

whoo p ing cough o r indeed any c o ugh that origi

,

nates in any p o rtion O f the respirat o ry tube .

But we have fo und in these cases that spots in

,

t h e v a u l t or wall of the ph arny x i f pressed ,

fi rm l y w ith a cotton wrappe d probe as large as

-
,

can b e com forta b ly passed through the n o strils

gi v es t h e quickest and m o st defi nite results .

F or the refl ex
”
“
— the sensati o n O f pain ,

tin gl in g o r co l d whic h is transmitted a l on g the

, ,
132 Z O N E T H ERAPY .

FIG . A nt r i r
e o q ua rter of t o g e c te d wi t h t i n c t e o f i od i n
n u oa ur

bot h r f c e
su a s
.
134 Z ON E T H E RA PY .

ne r v e z ones by this contact can be defi nitely

,

t raced by the patient to the exact spot where the

irritation seems t o originate .

By S lightly rai sing the handle of the p robe ,

and thereby altering it s p o int of contact on the

business end thi s influence can be di rected with
,

alm o st mathemat ical preci sion to the area we

desire to influence
—
.

When the exact spot i s pressed and a little

pract ice will soon make the finding of thi s almost
—
automatic the pressure should be fi rmly h eld
for several minutes The thr o at may feel S lightly
.

“ ”
lame afterwards — but this soon passes O ff .

I f it does not pressure brought to bear upon the

,

appropriate thumb o r finger will relie v e the

”
“
lameness .

In an experience with severa l hundred cases .

of who o ping c o ugh we have n o t yet seen a

failure from the pr o per application of zone
therapy Thi s I believe is mo r e than can b e
.
, ,

truly said of any other fo rm of t r eatment .

A ver y few treatments only are necess a ry to

relieve even the most aggravated case of whoop
—
ing cough or any cough which originates in
the r espirat o ry passage in t h at zone .

In other words a tubercular cough w h ic h has

, ,

its cause in a lesion on the e x t reme right or l e ft

of the lung w o uld n o t respond to p r essures in
 A SPE C I F I C F O R C O U G H S . 13 5

the middle zones L ikewi se a cou g h which w a s

.

r eflected from a con gested live r or from some

,

othe r or g an not in the fi rst a nd second zones ,

wou l d f a il to r espond to p ressures made as he r e

des cr i b ed A ny intelligent man or woman can
.

a pply these pressures — and with almost the

same success as would attend the effort of the
most famous speciali st .

It sometimes assi st s v ery materia l ly i f the

ton gu e for ab o ut a third way back i s thoroly
, ,

p ainted abo v e and below with t incture of iodin .

The mild i rritation fr o m the iodin tends to

s timulate the normal funct i o n of all th ose zones
interested in keeping up the cough .

I f the use of the pr o be through the nost rils

s eem s too much like a surgical operation v ery ,

—
good thou g h not s o rapid and e ffecti v e r esult s
will follow t h e applic ation of fi rm pressures
on the front part of the tongue and on the flo o r
,

of the mouth direct ly under the tongue .

A lso mode r ately tight rubber bands should be

wo r n on the thumbs and fi rst finge r s of both
hands for five or ten minute intervals se v eral ,

times a day Thi s might be supplemented als o

.

wit h strong pressure with the finger and thumb

’
o v e r the bridge o f the cougher s nose .

I f t h ere should be a frontal headache ass o

ciated with the cou g h — a v er y frequent sym p tom
136 Z O NE T H E R A P Y .

i f the cough has p ersisted for any l ength of

—
time the finger and thumb should be mo v ed u p
to the v e ry ro o t of the nose T h is s hal l b e
.

p inched gently for S e v eral minutes r i g ht at the ,

p lace where the nose ends and the eye s b e g in .

O ne Of the most remarkable thin g s zone

therapy has yet done ( although I am not su r
p ri sed at anything it may do ) was to cu r e a
forty year O ld c o ugh o riginating in a t r ac h e al
- -
,

( o r wind p ipe ) irrit a tion The pat ient.rece i v ed

one t reatment with a p r o be ( Fig 9 ) on the b ac k .

wall of the pharyn x .

S he experienced relie f a fter the second t r eat

ment and continued to improve unti l at the ex
, ,

p i ra ti on of three weeks she was d ischarged

,
as
cured N ow after 1 5 m o nths there ha s b een
.
, ,

no return of the cough .

A n o ther patient with bronchial cough a sso

ciated with lag r ip p e under my instruction
, re ,

liev ed hersel f by pressures made with the fi n g e r

and thumb over the bridge of the nose and b y ,

the wearing O f rubber bands around the t h um b s

and fi rst fingers of b o th hands .

This lady rep o rted the following mo r nin g t h a t

she had enj o yed the fi rst night s sleep S h e h a d ’

had in m o re than fi v e nights and that a p e r ,

S i stent and m o st ann o y ing headache had als o

cleared up .
 C HAP T ER 14.

H OW A P HAN T O M T U M O R WAS D I SS I PA T E D .

AS T J une the N e w H a m p shi r e D en tal

S ociety held a con v en tion at Weir s on ,

L ake Winnepesaukee O ne of the re s i

.

dents O f the summer colony w as b r oug ht b e fo r e

the con v ention on the evening of J une 2 3d H e r .

serious condit ion ba ffl ed the loc al p hysici a ns It .

was hoped that am o ng the tw o h und r ed scie n ti fi c

men gathered there from all pa r t s of the E a s t
, ,

some might be found who cou l d he lp her .

S he w a s a woman a b out thi r ty fi v e y ears O l d

-
,

well nou r ished and a pp arent l y h eal t h y apa rt ,

from a lar ge swelling in t h e f r ont of the neck .

Mani festly the thyroid and othe r glands h ad b e

come enlar g ed through some unknown infl am
matory cause . S he was su ffe r in g g rea t pa in .

The s l ightest touch caused a gony S w a l l owing.

was im p ossi b le N ot e v en a d r o p of water h a d

.

passed down he r throat since the pr ecedin g Fri

day night This was Wednesday ni ght
. .

A healthy human b eing can e x is t from se v en

t o ten da y s with o ut water Thi s wom a n h ad
.

been without water for fi v e day s su ffer ing ,

menta l and p hysica l torture H e r p h y sici a n in

.

( 138)
 A P H A N T O M TU M OR D I SS I PA T E D . 139

S i sted as the o nly means O f S aving her li fe that

, ,

an o p eration be per fo rmed at o nce The hal f .

do z en or m o re physicians wh o had been called in

consultation concurred in this The r e was .

nothing left but to per f o rm an intubation the

inserti o n of a tube in the gullet through which ,

water and f oo d might be passed pending some ,

p o ssible measure o f relie f .

The heart was racing al o ng at one hundred

and fi ft y beats a minute and there were all the
,

p eculiar s y m p t o ms u su allv ass o ciated with

thy r oid disturbances Inasmuch as the whole
.

t rou b le had devel o ped in a week i t was most ,

unl ikely that the c o nditi o n was g o itr o us .

A S it was p r o bable that the tr o uble was a ss o

ciated with the thyr o id a physician present de
,

c ided to try z one therapy because it could be ,

ap p lied instantly and promised immediate re

,

su lts i f successful .

Calling one O f the denti sts to make str o ng

press ure over the fi rst j oint of one thumb the ,

docto r gras p ed the other thumb This S imple .

,

a pp arently fo o lish treatment was maintained

,

for three minutes The patient began to S how

.

S igns of relief . The drawn lines on her face

softened S he could bear with o ut S hrinking the
.

touch on her neck .

The docto r sent for a glass O f water and held ,

140 ZO NE T H ERAPY .

’
it to the patient s lips S he took a S ip Of wate r
.
,

which S he s w all o wed with much d ifli cu lty and

pain the fi rst drop in five days .

“
I t i s the most delicious thing I ever tasted ,

S h e whispered .

S he was able to swall o w about a thi rd of a

glass up o n her fi rst attempt The pressu r es were .

continued intermi ttently for ab o ut an hour and ,

within that t ime she was able t o drink four

glasses of water and a glass O f malted milk A .

light rubber band was placed o ver her thumb

j oints as S h o wn in Fig 5 and she enj oyed her
, .
,

fi rst night s S leep since the inflammation had

’

developed .

The next m o rning S he reported that S he was

almost entirely relieved The swelling was
.

hardly perceptible and S he c o uld bear reasonable

,

pressure o ver the glands with o ut di scom fort .

S he had n o di fficulty in swallowing In a few .

days S he was fully rec o vered and has h a d no ,

return of the trouble

—
.

With the relie f of nerve tension c o nsciously

—
or unc o nsci o usly exerted there necess a ril y fol
l o ws a relie f in either the constricted o r the con
gested c o nditi o n of the lymphatic glands or ducts ,

the thyroid and o ther ductless glands and also ,

of the vasom o t o r nerves which control t h e fl ow

,

o f bl oo d through the bl o od vessels .

 C HA PT ER 15 .

D R W H IT E
. S E X PER I EN C E .

NE o f the m o st th o r o and able d iag nos

ticians in A merica i f not in the wo r ld , ,

i s G e o rge S tarr White M D of L O S ,

. .
,

A ngeles Cal discoverer of the bio dv namic

,
.
,
-

meth o d of diagn o sis I reproduce a small p or

.

tion of hi s experiences in z one therapy and zone

—
anesthesia as detailed in hi s L ectu r e Co u r se .

“
A few years ag o while experimenting on the
,

anesthetic e ffect o f the Tesla current I obse r ved ,

that by giving a current that produced a severe

S h o ck t o the fingers I was able to pierce t h em
,

with needles and n o t feel pain I did not realize .

why these result s were Obtained But ex p eri .

ments on animals gave me a hint F or one of .

my h o rses backed int o a window and g ot a large ,

piece of glass int o the sacral region ( near the

tail ) We tried with o ut suc cess to put her into
.
, ,

a narrow stall and tie her legs so we cou l d

o perate as a large inci sion had to be made to
,

extract the f o reign b odv Finally o ne of ou r .

—
men suggested that we tie a S lipper n oo se w hich ,

‘ ’ ’
he called a twitch ar o und the horse s nose H e
,
.

( 1 42 )
 D R W H I T E S E X PE R I EN C E 143
’
. .

‘
made this twitch ou t of a piece of t hin r o pe pu t
’

it on the horse s nose and we st arted to O p e r ate

’

,
.

’
T he result was a collision between the horse s
hind l egs a nd my abdomen I told the man to .

‘
p ut the twitch on again tie it tightly and ho l d
’

, ,

it for tw o or three minutes Then altho I made .

,

a deep inc ision to take o ut the glass the ho r se ,

did not flinch .

I realize now that we used z one anesthesia ,

as the s a cr a l region and the nose are in the s a me

zone A t other times we have had occasion to
.

do mino r Operations on cows and pigs o n m y e x

p e r im e nt fa r m and have noticed that
,
b y putting ,

‘ ’
a twitch on the nose the animals did not seem ,

to ex p e r ience any pain .

“
A l so be fore anesthesia was S O well known I
, ,

r emem b e r seeing surge o ns d o minor oper a tions

on indi v iduals w ho would take no chlorof o rm .

A l most always the patient s closed thei r teeth or ,

c l inched thei r hands o n some r o ugh substance .

‘ ’
Then the y c o uld stand anything .

“
L ater I heard Dr William H Fit z gerald ex . .

plain zone ther apy Then I reali z ed that we have

.

alw a ys used zone therapy alth o ugh we did n o t ,

know it .

“
A fter spending a few days with Dr Fitz .

g era l d I met at a dinner pa r ty a lady w h o h a d

.
,

a s ev e r e I rontal h e a dache O b tainin g he r p e r .

144 Z O N E T H ERAPY .

‘ ’
mi ssion to try a new cure I e x erted p r essu r e ,

upon the thumb fi rst and second fin g er s a nd

, ,

within fi v e minutes the headache h a d d isap

p ea re d I.had S imilar success in t r eatin g a
toothache .

“
I S hortly a fterwards called on a N ew Y ork
physician who had previously been one of my
pupils and asked him i f he knew anything about
,

zone therap y H e said he did not but had read

.
,

about it in some of the j ournals and thought ,

‘ ’
it must be all imagination I then held his .

fingers pretending I was trving to see how muc h

,

resistance there was in hi s muscles Within three .

minutes I laid a button hook on hi s eyeball with

out hi s fl nich ing I t oo k a stickpin from hi s
.

cravat and pushed it into hi s cheek and put

, ,

several pins into his face without his feeling ,

them H e could n o t bear the touch of a pin in

.

any o ther zo ne H e called hi s wi fe and S he was

.
,

‘ ’
h o rri fi ed when S h e saw him so S tuck up I with .

drew the pins and sterili z ed his face H e is now .

a staunch believer in z one anesthesia .

“
A t several of our lecture c o urses in Chicago
and elsewhere I had an o pportunit y to S how
,

these methods and made some very inte r estin g

,

Observati ons We fo und that light wou l d not

.

contract the pupil O f the eye that h a d b een at

tacked through the fin g er Z ones to the s a m e d e
146 Z O NE T H ERAPY .

cancer and tumor and has had some ex traord i

,

nar y successes with S o me O f them H e car efu lly .

avoids any re ference to the value of zone the ra py

in these c o nditi o ns but to my mind the r esults
, . ,

achieved warrant menti o n I saw tw o most in .

teresting cases in hi s practice O ne a lady .

, ,

ab o ut 5 5 v ears o f age had a growth on the S ide

,

of her neck di agn o sed as cancer

, By the bio .

d y namic meth o d I confi rmed this dia gnosi s

,
.

Thi s gr o wth was as large as an o rdinary S ized

o range and v erv hard and unyielding The lady
,
.

t o ld u S that until she began being treated by

,

means of zo ne therapy and z one analgesia she ,

had not slept for m o nths without some o piate .

For m o re than tw o years n o w S he said S h e had

taken n o opiates and had rested with o ut any
,

pain when Z one pressure anesthesia was used .

“
When I saw thi s lad v the S i z e o f the growth
had dimini shed fr o m thi s treatment until it ,

w o uld n o t be rec ogni z ed except by palpa tion

( f eeling with the fingers ) I al so saw
. her ph o to
graph taken be fo re S he began treatment and the
, ,

improvement was certainly rem ar kable I do .

not kn o w whether zo ne therapy will ever cu r e

this case but we d o kn o w that it i s makin g l i fe
,

endurable to the un fo rtunat e victim .

S everal o f my pupils ha v e used t h e Fitz

gerald method for operation on tu r b inate a nd
 DR . wH
’
ITE S E X PER I EN C E .
147

othe r nasal Obstructions as well as upo n Obstet r ic

,

( childbirth ) cases with most ,

grati fying r esults
in al l of them .

“
Two or three cases out of ten will not it ,

seems r esp o nd t o zone therap y Bu t the ma

, .

j ori ty will There i.s n o d o ubt a g oo d reason f o r

‘
the failures such as bl o cking of the Zo ne paths ’

in some manner as by a tum o r gr o wth pus , ,

condition o r Obstruction O r again fai lure may

,
.
,

be due to faulty technic Better result s will no .

doubt come with m o re experience It o nly re .

quires that the meth o d b e tried o ut o n a huge

scale and by a large number of c o mpetent O h
,

servers Then the collated results will furnish

.

us a basis for accurate applicati o n o f these m o st

”
wonder ful and helpful principles .
 C HA P T ER 16 .

ZONE T H ERAPY M A I N LY F O R D EN TI S T S .

H ERE are fo ur reasons W hv zone

analgesia as we call the pain relie v in g -

—
pr o perties of z one therapy are not
m o re generally used b y dent i sts O ne is that t h e
.

denti st doesn t w ish to put himsel f in the em

'

b arrassing p o siti o n of suggestin g such a fooli sh

S eeming thing t o his pain racked patient -
An .

’
o ther is that the patient hersel f thinks she s con
ferring a favor upon the dentist by permittin g
’
him t o spend fi v e or ten minutes valua b le time
in attempting t o alleviate her su fferings and ,

make the o rdeal of cavity preparation or scaling

c o mparati v el y painless .

A lso t o press o ver the r oo t s of a t oo th f o r

,

, ,
—
three fo ur o r m o re minutes exerting a fter ,

t o lerati o n is esta b li shed all the force of which the

,

—
o perat o r is capable i s hard w o rk It s much .
’

quicker and easier and less likely to num b the

,

” “
denti st s thumb and finger t o S la p a gas cone
’
,

o ver the pat ient s n o se o r inj ect cocaine a round

’

—
the gums which t o my mind hurt s al most as
, ,

b a dl y as h a ving the to o th e x tr a cted .

( 148 )
150 ZO NE T H ERAPY .

There is n o known w ay of telling in a dvance ,

j us t what degree o f analgesia success is assured .

D r M \V Mal o ney o f P ro v idence R I and

. . .
. , . .
,

Dr \V n1 JHogan of H art fo rd Conn c l aim

. . .
. , .
,

successful result s with ab o ut 80 % of thei r cases .

Dr E verett M Co o k of T o ledo O hio writes

. .
. , ,

that he i s easily success ful in 7 5% o f hi s c ases .

Dr Thomas I R y an o f N ew Y ork i s quite u ni

. .
. ,

fo rml y successful in desensiti z in g the gu ms for

p v o r rh oea t reatment \V h ile o ther dentists .

‘
range o n d o wn to as low as 5 0 7 o f successes o r r
,

even t o Z ero .

There are p rob ab lv very definite reasons for

this alth o ugh it may be d ifli cu lt to convince the
,

average denti st that such exist First it requi res .

,

a fine technic t o find the various dental nerves ,

and b y c o mmencing gentl y and gradu al l y in

, ,

creasing pressures t o anestheti z e them wi t hout

,

hurting the patient m o re than the o p erati o n

might have hurt him In which case he has the .

pain of the o perati o n plus the pain of attempt

ing to analg esiz e his unresp o nsi v e nerve p oints .

N ext when pressures are made ove r the

,

fingers especially w here n o clamps or r ubber

,

bands are used there i s a tendency to skimp on

,

the t ime dev o ted t o the finger squeezi ng The .

“
denti st o r his assi stant will give the j ob a lick
and a pr o mise — ”
and let it go at th a t T h ey .
 —
ZO N E T H ERAPY M A I N LY FO R D EN TI S T S . 15 1

don t use su fficient time o r su fficient f o rce really

’

to accom p lish anything .

’
A nd third they won t take the time p rope rl y
,

to learn the zones and the teeth relations and ,

apply in a serious way the knowledge so ac

qui r ed .

H owe v er for the bene fit of those denti sts

,

who may be interested in learning how to de

sensitize cavities in sensitive teeth o r d o some
,

of the necessarily pain ful scaling o f tartar and

other dep o sits in pyorrhea and for the par

,

ticu lar b enefit O f several milli o n of thei r patients

th r oughout the c o untry I w o uld sa y that pres
,

sure by an assistant exerted over the j oint s of

the thumb ( the assistant w o uld d o better com
”
p let ely to cover the j o int using ,
thumbs and
finge r s of both hands for this purp o se ) will ,

mitiga te or quite c o ntrol the pain in the inci sor

and occasionally the cuspid teeth of the S ide c o r
r esponding t o the finger being squee z ed .

N ever let the patient do thi s for himsel f u n ,

less y ou provide him with clamps or wide rubber

bands for the purpose as he cannot be trusted
,

to make the pressures l o ng en o ugh or strong

enoug h to acc omplish satis factory results .

P ressure exerted o ver the fi rst or second

j oint of the fi rst finger will c o ntr o l pain in the
cuspid and bicuspid teeth The second finger
.
1 52 Z O NE T H E RAP Y .

i s related t o the tw o m o lar s but s o metimes the

,

third ( or ring ) finger must a lso b e em p loyed

for thi s region .

In o ther w o rds pressure upon the t hu m b

, .

fore fi ng er middle and ring finge r s of eit h e r

-
, ,

hand will cont r o l c o rresp o ndin gl y pain in the

incisors cuspids and bicuspids and the tw o
,

molars o n either side of the median line p ro ,

v id ing that there i s no great inflammation or no

abscess in the vicinity o f the cor r e sp onding

teeth .

O cca sionally the c o ntr o l o ver laps in w h ich -

,

case it it necessary t o use also the finger next

t o the zone finger and in the case Of wi sdom
,

teeth to get the best result s it i s sometimes ad

,

visable t o use b o th the third and the little fi n ge r

—as the f o urth and fi fth zo nes merge in th e
head .

A very success ful meth o d practiced b v some

—
experts particularly where extraction must be
d one i s t o grasp the O ffending tooth as nea r
the apex of the r o ot as is practicable and wit h ,

the thumb and finger make fi rm press u r e for

three f o ur o r more minutes
, ,
— b y the watc h .

This usuall y pr oduces a degree O f anaest h e si a

lasting ab o ut o ne hal f h o ur although pr e ss u re
,

can i f necessary be reapplied at any t ime

, , .

O ther dent ist s and o ral surge o ns get e x c ell ent

1 54 Z O NE T H ERAPY .

dental nerve where it enters the r a mus ( or

,

gr o ove ) of the l o wer j aw gives good anaes ,

thesia . A lso pressure with the fi nger on the

in ferior dental ner v e where it e x its from b e
,

low the bicuspid tooth ( called by docto r s the

mental foramen ) will usuall y anesthetize that
hal f of the j aw .

Many operators the better to focus p r e fe r

to use the blunt end of an instrument ( the
handle of an excavator is excellent ) upon thi s
in ferior dental nerve .

The pr o per applicat ion of these principles c a n

not fail t o be of immense value to the denti st
and oral surgeon in thei r d aily pr a ctice In r e .

lieving t oo thache and neuralgia in removing de ,

posits in ext racting teeth and in fact in mos t

, ,

pain ful o perations which denti sts are called

upon t o per fo rm this pressure technique shou l d
,

prove invaluable as many denti st s are le a rning

,

every day .

A nd further the applicati o n of these prin

,

cip les will inevitably encourage pu b lic interest

in dentistry and will materiall y diminish the

,

sum t o tal O f pain and su ffering that hum a nity

i s called up o n t o endure Indeed it is common
.
,

—
and highly grati fying among many dent i sts
—
now using z one analgesia t o have sensit i v e
—
patients those upon whom b ecause of p a st ex ,
 —
ZONE T H ERAPY M A I N LY FO R D EN TI S T S . 155

h au sting and nerve racking experiences they -

,

—
have always dreaded w o rking say Well D oc “

t o r i f y o u never hurt me any m o re than you

,

did today I S hall never again fear to c o me t o

you .

FIG . P re re I V w i l l n o t o nly ne t h et i ze t h e t h i rd d fo t h
26 ssu at a s an ur

zone b f e ent l y l o t h t h l f f t h e ppe j

s, ut r qu a s a a o u r aw .

P e e V wi t h fi nger c o ver i ng h me di n l i ne d c o nter pre

r ssu r at t e a an u s

su re wi t h h t h m b t e t h e o t id e f t h e j
u Ou u o r even o n t h e l i p di e c tly
s o aw , r

O ppo i te t h e fi nger wi ll
s ll y ne t h et i z e t h e i n ci o r ffici ently f
, u su a a s s s su or

p i nle e t c t i o n
a ss x ra .

Mothers will fi nd thi s meth o d a safe and cer

tain means of relieving themselves and their
children of an immense am o unt of pain and dis
comfort F o r while they cannot of c o urse
.
, , ,

hope t o p o ssess the technical kn o wledge enabling

them to find and exert pressure up o n the nerves
156 Z O NE T II E RA PY .

themselves it i s a comparati v el y S imple m a tte r

,

for them t o rigidl y grasp the ro o ts O f an aching

t ooth between their thumb and finger and tem ,

p or a r i ly relieve pain — a t least until they can

take little A l fred or A lice t o the dentist .

I f thi s may not seem feasi b le they can b y , ,

remembering the fingers that correspond wi th

the particular z one it i s desired to influence d o ,

much t o relieve di st ressing conditions in that

z one until such time as the d o ctor or dentist can
be visited by squee z ing o r by applying ru bb e r
, ,

bands around the proper fingers .

For example : A t a dinner party the other

night o ne of the guest s c o mplained of seve re
pain in the right upper fi rst molar I t o ld her .

t o squee z e fi rmly the j oint of her second or

middle finger which advice S he considered a
,

very ill timed and pointless j o ke Insist ing that

-
.

I was serious and help fully disp o sed S he o b eyed ,

instructions and in a very few minutes beamed

,

complete relie f from her dental anguish .

A nother instance in which toothache was re

liev ed in what might b e called an ou tre manner
’

was rep o rted by D r JF R oemer of Waukegan

. . .
,

Ill wh o operated wi th a pair of ru bb er b ands

.
,

up o n the aching teeth of a young traveling man .

Dr Ro emer writes that this man came to the

.

O ffi ce with an ext remely pain ful and sensit ive

1 58 Z O NE T H ERAPY .

FIG . 27P t i ent n h et i z i ng t h e l e ft j w i n t h e fi r t z o ne b y fi rmly

a a e st a s s ,

pre i ng t h e l i p di re c tly o pp o i te bet w een t h e t h mb d i n d e fi nge f

ss s , u an x r O

le f t h n d i n dic t i ng t h e re wi t h t h e r i gh t i n d e fi nger
a , a a a x .
 —
ZONE T H E RA PY M A I N L Y FOR DE N T I S TS . 1 59

FIG 28 S t i c k p i n fi mly i mbe dd ed i n

. r a s e c t i on of t h e n e t h et i ze d re
a s a a

h o w n i n F i g 27
s . .
16 0 Z O NE T HERAPY .

teeth were getting along A fter c a utiously

.

testing their sensiti v eness by me a ns of va r ious

biting pressures the patient responded that
,

‘ ’
while the y were still a little sore the pain had
”
enti rely le ft .

The doctor then i ssued inst ructions as to how

t o apply rubber bands in o rder to m a ke the
pr o per pressure which i s t o use one fourth inch
,
-

bands ab o ut tw o inches in length bind them ,

—
around the fi rst j o int c ounting from the tip
O f the thumb and fi rst fi nger leave them on unt il ,

blui sh di sc o l o rati o n appeared then remove and , ,

re apply a fter a few hours

-
.

The t raveling man rep o rted the foll owing d av

-

that he had enj o yed a g oo d night s S lee p the — ’

fi rst for many night s — and after forty eight -

hours o f this t reatment he telephoned that a ll

pain and sensit iveness had completely d isap
p ea red .

In neuralgia and other pain ful conditions Of

l o ng standing where there are n o decayed teeth
— O r other dental causes for the pain—m a ny
,

permanent cures have b een e ffected by pressure

treatment A lm o st it w o uld seem that whate v er
.

tends t o reduce the pain would also help remedv

its cause n o matter how remote
,
.

A s illustrating in detail the successful home

, ,

”
tre a tment Of neuralgia another cas e of D r
, .
16 2 ZO NE T H ERAPY .

‘ ’
years thanks to those fool ru bb er b a nds a s
, ,
”
his daughter called them .

Many denti sts secure a ver y satis fa ctory de

gree Of an a lgesia S uf
ficient for excavating or
—
treatments b y compressing fi rmly the lip or
cheek immediately over the tooth that is to b e
w o rked upon ( S ee Fig
. . But as a r ule ,

for extraction purposes they pre fer pressure

,

over the r oots or di rectly upon the v a r ious

,

b ranches of the dental ner v es ( S ee Fi gs 2 5 . .

a nd
O ne of the most signi ficant f a cts in connec
tion with zone therapy is the intimate relation
between morbid dental conditions and pain or
even pathological changes in practically e v ery
section of the b ody It has b een dem onst r ated
—
.

beyond a S hadow O f dou b t that points or f oci

,

—O f infection within the mouth or in the teeth , ,

frequently mani fest distur b ances most remote

from their p o int of o rigin .

This i s o ne reason why many physici a ns and

surgeons using the method make a r out ine
, ,

practice o f sending every patient in whom dent a l ,

di sease is even suspected for a thor ou gh o v er

,

hauling by a competent dentist .

A nother reas o n for striving to keep a ll ou r

o riginal teeth in their places is that nature in
—
ten ded t o preserv e the c o ntinuit y i f it may b e
 —
ZONE T H ERAPY M A I N LY FO R D EN T I S T S . 16 3

SO —
termed O f ou various nerve z ones
r S ound .
,

healthy teeth and r oots in their n o rmal occlusion ,

seem to assist in the n o rmal func ti o ning of the

entire zone chain of which they are import a nt
lin ks.

A sthma congestions headaches neuralgia

, , , ,

conditions a ffecting the nerves of the head or

the ears or even partial dea fness have b een ma
, ,

terially improved and many times completely

,

cured by the applicat ion of a galvanic cauter y

,

around the necks Of the teeth by pressure on ,

the teeth themselves in the zo ne a ffected or even ,

“
by having the patient grind the particular
teeth related t o th o se areas which it i s attempted
favora b ly to influence .

In s everal instances chronic fr o ntal head

,

aches in children have b een cured by correcting

faulty occlusion of the fr o nt teeth b y that b ranch
“ ”
of dentistry kn o wn as O rth o dontia When .

’
a fter several months treatment the teeth were ,

restored to their n o rmal alignment and con ,

tinu i ty of th e nerve zo ne was re esta b li shed the

-
,

headaches cleared up and there has b een no re

,

turn O f them .

O ccasionally it happens that a patient will go

to a physic ian wh o uses zo ne analgesia t o b e pre
’
pared for the services of a dent ist wh o d o esn t .

O nl y recentl y a man su fferin g from indi g estion

164 2 1 1 5 1 12 t H ERA PY .

l’
m m A r m i nt (
p o ne
‘

on n ec ti c u t d ent i t ne t h et ze t h e nt i e l ft
s a s i s e r e

l l e ft i n fer i o r d ent l nerve S f l

.

ha f of hi s b o d y th r g h pr
ou e ss u re on a . ee o
ln w m g t ut .
 166 Z ON E T H E R A PY .

and r h eumatoid arthriti s ( r heum a ti s m of the

j oint s with prog r e s sive sti ffenin g ) w as a d v i se d
by his p hysician to h a ve h i s teeth r emo v ed t h e ,

docto r insisting t h a t be ca use four wi s dom te et h

were t h e only teet h h e had t h at w ere not dec aye d
and completely b r oken down nothin g e ls e wou l d
,

cure h i s indigestion and r heumatism .

H i s h eart ac tion was suc h that it would h a v e

been dangerous to admini s te r coc a in e — muc h
less a g eneral ane s thetic .

The r e fo re fo r the remo v al O f hi s 2 7 teeth and

,

stum p s the pre s sure met h od was de cided upon

,
.

H is ph y sician accompanied him to the denti s t ,

and doctor and dent ist for the ne x t twent y

,

minutes made t h e pr o per p r essures on the fi nge rs

and on the in fe r ior denta l ner v es .

—
A ll t h e l o we r teeth we r e t h en remo v ed w it h
ou t a p artf cle of pain P r e ss ures we r e then re
.

p ea te d o n the fingers and t h e pal a tine ne r v e s,

and the teeth in the uppe r j aw were l ikewi s e re

m o ved .

O f the entire 2 7 o nl y tw o g ave muc h pain on

,

ext r action and these were m o st s t r on g ly at

,

tached to the bon y pr o cesses the so ket

( c s a n d
attachments by which teet h a r e he l d in plac e ) .

Bleeding fo llo w in g th i s w h olesa l e e x t racti on

w as v ery S lig h t .
 Z O N E T H E RA P Y—MA I N LY FO R DE N T I S TS . 16 7

I t m ay b e inte r estin g to know that afte r the

g ums h a d heale d and the p atient ha d wo r n
a rti fici al teeth for a few mont h s hi s a pp etit e
,

and di g e s tion im pr o v ed he b e ga n to ga in in
,

wei ght a nd the r e was an almo s t com p let e r e l ie f

,

from the rheum a ti c s y mptom s and the j oint

sti ffenin g .

In s ome instances p hy s icians h a v e app l ied t h e

p ressu r es in thei r ow n O fli ces a nd ha v e then
—
,

sent t h e p atients with rub b e r bands b ound

f
ti ght ly ar ound thei r finger j oints in order to
—
maint a in the analgesic infl u ence to the d entist ,

where t h ei r extraction or ca v ity pr epar at ion has

b een p ain l essly done .

A nd oc casionall y great p leasu r e and sa tisfac

tion i s a fforded b oth patient and d octor tWhen , ,

some s u ffe r e r call s up on the phone at two or

’
z

three in the mornin g and inquires what fin ger

to pres s to relie v e the pain Of a certain too t h ,

especia lly when the advice gi v en has b een fol ‘ t

lowed by r elie f .

It h a s b een for many yea r s a quite gene r a l

piece of knowledg e among denti st s that t h e ap
plication Of mentho l to the mucus membrane of
the nose on the same side as an aching tooth
, ,

would v e r y frequent ly stop t h e toothache I f .

dentist s wi l l now a p pl y a S li gh t e l aboration of

thi s b it of zone anal ge s ia technic they may p os
170 Z ON E T H E RA PY .

sib ly s a v e the msel v es many gra y h airs W h a t

.

t h eir pa tient s w ill S a v e in agony a pp rehension

, ,

and the drain on their v it a lit y ca nnot b e e v e n

estim a ted
.
 C HAP T ER 1 7 .

ZONE T H ERAPY FO R DO CT ORS O N LY .

E grind and grit our teeth during

paroxysms of pain When we b um p .

our S hins against a rockin g chair -

that has taken p oint of vantage directly in ou r

p ath immediately we clasp the o ffended S hin
,
.

In the days be fo re the blessed era of nitrous

O xid and l o cal anesthetics when the muscul a r
,

dentist leaned toward the door with o ur pet toot h

in the fi r m embrace of shiny forceps we helped ,

him to the utm o st by gripping the arms of the

chair with vi se like c lutch This maneuver seem
-
.

ing ly h a d no m o re c o nnecti o n with t ooth ext r a c

tion than have the e ffulgent rays of the moon
upon the pumpkin cr o p But we felt o ur duty
.
,

and we did it .

When fur y and anger sweep us in thei r red

flame and gentle familiar aspect s o f nature take
, ,

on the hue of b l oo d we clench ou r fi sts unt il

,

the nails are driven deep into the fl esh In the .

fi r s t S hock of the ago ny of b erea v ement o r dur ,

in g th o se cruel dragging hours when we are ad

j ustin g ou r selves to living with o ur h earts torn
a sunder we clasp ou r h a nds in frenzy
,
.

( 1 7 1 )
172 Z O NE T H E RA PY .

For ages we h a v e been doin g t h ese t h in gs b e

cause they are n a tural and apparent l y ine v it a b l e .

We d id them automatically with out knowin g ,

wh y But now we know we d o t h em b ec a use

.
.

they are instructive and scienti fic We d o t h ese .

things in v oluntarily and automatically b ecaus e

—
the y relieve p ain or nerve tension because they
produce a form of analgesia or pain deadenin g ,
-
.

similar to that which follows the inj ection of

water or some anesthet ic s o lution into a sensorv
ner v e .

S i x y ears ago I accidentally di scovered that

pressure with a c o tton tipped pr o be on the muco
-

cutaneus margin ( where the S kin j o ins the mucus

mem b ran e ) of the n o se gave an anesthetic result
as though a c o caine s o luti o n had been applied .

I further found that there were manv spot s

in the nose m o uth thr o at and on both sur faces
, , ,

of the tongue which when pressed fi r mly

, ,

deadened definite areas to sensation A l so t h at .

,

pressures exerted o ver any bony eminence on ,

the hands feet or o ver the j oints produc ed t h e

, , ,

same characteri stic r esults in pain re l ie f I .

found also that when pain was relie v ed t h e con ,

dition that produced the pain was most gene r a l l y

”
relieved Thi s led to m y mapping out t h es e
.
“

various areas and thei r associated connect i on s ,

and als o t o n o ting the c o nditions influe nce d

1 74 Z O NE T HERAPY .

the back of the nose and thro a t j oin ) are divided

in the same w ay and posterior pressure or con
,

tact a ffects posteri o r sect ions O f zones ; w h ile an

terior p ressure or contact a ffect s anterior sec
tions of zones T raction ( or pullin g wi th a
.

hooked pro b e — see B Fi g 1 1 ) on th e soft , .

palate in the epipharynx a ffects the anteri o r

zones and t rac ti o n o n the anterior pillars of the
,

fauc es ( pillars in front of the tonsils ) a ffect s

,

zones one two three four and five especi a lly in

, , , ,

a rms and S houlders in the posterior s ect ions of

Z ones P ressure o n the anterior sur face of the
.

lips and the anteri o r sur face O f the anterior

pillars of the fauces a ffect s the anterior sur face
of all z ones P ressure o n the posterior sur fac e
.

o f the lower lips a ffect s the posterior sections of

all z o nes .

P ain in any part of the fi rst zone may b e

t reated and o verc o me temporarily at least and
, ,

o ften permanently by pressure on all sur faces

,

of the fi rst j oint of the great toe or on the cor ,

resp o nding j o int of the thumb S h o uld t h e p re s .

sure be limited t o the upper sur face of the g reat

t o e the anesthetic or analgesic e ffects wil l ex
,

tend up the front of the body to the f r onto

—
parietal suture where the b o nes j o in on top O f
the skull They will als o extend ac r o ss the chest
.

and do w n the anterio r s u r f ace of t h e fi r st Z o ne

 Z O NE T H ERAPY F OR DO CT O RS O N LY . 17 5

Of the arm and thum b and Often to the thum b

,

S ide of th e index fin g er . S hould pressure b e

made on the under sur face of the great toe t h e ,

e ffects will e x tend alon g the fi rst z one in the

sole of the foot a nd up the back of the leg t h i gh , ,

b ody and head in that zone to the a b o v e named -

suture ; also acr o ss the back and d o wn the p os

terior s ur face o f the fi rst z one of the arm and
thum b a nd frequently the thum b S ide of t h e
,

inde x fin g e r .

Firm p res s u r e on the end of the g re a t toe or

tip O f t h um b will control the enti re fi r s t zone .

Firm pressure o n the tips Of the fin gers or toes

control indi v idual zones L ateral or side pres
.

sure on thumbs and fingers or toes will a ffect

lateral o r S ide boundaries o f the zo nes pressed ,

and also trans v erse extensi o ns to n o st rils lips ,

and e a rs .

A limited am o unt o f anesthesia may Often be

esta b lished by pressure over any resistant bo ny
sur face in any zone compressed and Often the
, ,

mere momentary c o ntact with the galvanic

cautery or pressure w ith a S harp pointed ap
,
-

plicator or with the thumb o r fi ng er nail will

,
— ,

produce the same result . Contacts especially

,

with aluminum c o m b s o r p o inted instruments ,

may be m o mentary i f frequently repeated but

, ,

rot r act d c o nt acts are o fte n nece ssar

p e y .
176 Z O NE T H ERAPY .

P rolonged pressure wit h an a luminum h ai r

c o mb is fast b ecoming a popular met h od b ut ,

S imilar p ressures with the nails of t h e t h um b s

and fingers are likely the met h od N ature in

tended P ressure with bands of elastic metal
.
, ,

cloth or leather o n the fingers toes wrist s and

, , ,

ankles as well as o n the knees and elbows are

, ,

often use ful in o verc o ming pain in an individual

z one o r group o f Z ones I f these pressure s are
.

r esisted by pathological processes elsewhe re in

the Z one or z ones pain is s o met imes e x cited In
,
.

other words i f there is an abscess or some

,

active inflammat o ry condition present as in — ,

middle ear t r o uble pressure o ften aggravates or

-
,

stimulates the pain to renewed endeav o r s It .

usually h o wever o vercomes the pain momen

,

tarily Z one pressure has for thi s reason b e

.
, ,

c o me a diagnostic fact o r of great value in

disclosing hidden pus c o nditions or inflammatory
—
pr ocesses particularly in the r oo t s of teet h the ,

ears appendix o varies or in o ther o rgans

, , ,
.

P ain anywhere in any zo ne may be overcom e

m o re quickly by pressure with an applicato r or ,

with cautery c o ntact at certain p oints through

o ut the corresp o nding zo ne or z ones in the
m o uth pharynx ep ip harv nx and nose ; but the
, ,

fi nger and t o e pressures may be relied upon ve ry

o ften What applies t o o ne zo ne applie s to a ll
.
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to g ive these delicate result s the su bj ects must be

very responsive .

P ressure o r contact upon the occlusa l or ,

bi ting edges of the teeth a ffect t h e innermost

,

parts of practically every bone in the b od y We .

b elieve that the teeth being the most acce ssible

, ,

are the natural guardians O f the bones throu gh

o ut the bo dy The heat waves from the applica
.

ti o n of a fine p o int cautery c o ntact on the b iting

edges of the teeth are di spatched through t h e
,

centers of all b o nes and their therapeutic or

, ,

curative e ffect i s di sseminated through the b ones

and ti ssue in the zo nes t reated N aturally the
.
,

therapeutic e ffect is less marked as the sur fac e

o f the b ody i s appr o ached .

P ressure o r c o ntact o n the anterior sur face of

the teeth a ffects the anteri o r sur face of the bones
in the anteri o r secti o ns o f bo nes and to a g reater
,

o r less extent the ti ssues o f the same z one s i n the

c o rresp o nding sect i o ns P ressure or contact on
.

the posteri o r sur face o f the teeth a ffect the p os

terior sur face of the b o nes in the poste r io r sec
ti o ns of z o nes treated and to a greate r or l ess
,

extent the tissues o f the same z on es in the cor

resp o nding secti o ns .

A n asset n o t generally rec o gni z ed i n no r ma l

o cclusi o n of a natural set of teeth i s the ab ilitv
of the patient to relax practically eve ry p a r t Of
 Z O NE T H ERAPY F O R D O CT O R S ON LY . 1 79

the body through fi rm biting pressure for two

,

o r three minutes o n all sur faces of the upper and

l o we r teeth In thi s manner pain may frequently
.

b e relie v ed in any sect ion of a Z one or group Of ,

zon es throughout the body and occasionally

, ,

even anesthesia may be induced through fi rm

occlus ion of the teeth f o r tw o o r three minutes
in these z o nes Thi s is at least one reas o n why
.

all t h e teeth sh o uld be preserved i f at all possi b le

, ,

and why normal occlusi o n S h o uld be brough t

a b out if it does n o t already exi st I f one b e de .

p r i v ed of the thi rd m o lar teeth f o r instance

,
hi s ,

ability t o prevent r elieve o r overc o me pat h o

,

logical c o nditi o ns in the f o urth and fi fth zones

is restricted ; and thi s naturally applies to the
various individual zo nes o r gr o up O f z ones where
te eth have been ext racted .

Yo u Wo uld hardly believe that o ffending c o rns

or warts o r bitten fi ng er nails where infl amma
-
,

tory pr o cesses have b een excited may be resp on ,

S i b le f o r r heumati sm o r neuriti s b ut we are daily

.

proving such to be the case .

Toe nails and fi ng er nails must be respected

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and as well taken care of f o r health s sake as

,
’

any other section o f the indi v idual zo nes There .

i s n o t a secti o n o f a fi ng er nail o r t o e nail t h at

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may n o t a ffect ( under stimulati o n o r pressure )

the most distant parts o f the body .
18 0 ZONE T H ERAPY .

A lso it might be of inte r est he r e to note th a t

,

while enough pressure is good too much is mild ,

murder Thi s can be testi fi ed to by all who b y

.
,

means of new S h o es fooli shly a ppl y co nstrict in g

,

pressures to thei r t o es The r e en s ues afte r the .

,

lapse of an appreciable lengt h of time a condi ,

ti o n made u p of equal part s of b odily weakne s s

—
and ne r v ous i rrita b ility an actual physical and
—
s p i ritual f a tigue relieved on ly b y remo v ing the
—
pressu r e in other words by r elie v ing zone p re s ,

sure inhi b ition .

Tight b elts c o rsets or coll ar s will de v elop

, ,

S imilar o r e v en w o rse e f
,
fects inasmuch as their
, ,

influence em b races not o nly the undue i rrit a tion

of the ne r v e z ones but also the const r icting in
,

fl u ences upon glands b l oo d v essels and inter nal

,

organ s .

A ll zones must b e free from i rr i tatio n and

'

O bst ruct ions to get the best results For instance .

,

if there b e p a in in the head c h est a b domen o r , , ,

ext remities in one o r m o re z ones it may be re ,

liev ed or quite o v erc o me by pressure on resistant

sur faces anywhere in the z ones a ffected I f the .

pain be r e l ie v ed for a few mo ment s only and ,

repeated pressures d o n o t ov e r come it it i s sa f e ,

t o assume that the pain i s due to s ome a b norma l

pressure o r i rritati o n as gas p u s impacti ons , , ,
.

nec r o sis etc so mew h ere in a zo ne o r g rou p of

, .
,
18 2 ZON E T H ERAPY .

sco p ic connections ana l ogous to those we c a ll

”
ner v es may contain some elements of plausi
,

b ility .

L et the p hy sician or the dentist w h o ascribes ,

these p henomena to suggesti o n attem p t to re ,

lieve an a chin g le ft incisor for inst a nce by

, , ,

pressing the little fing er of the r ight hand of h is

patient or exercise his persuasive powers on a
,

throbbing molar by pressing the thum b of e it h er

hand H e will find himsel f up a g ainst a stone
.

wall S O far as result s are concerned fo r only by

, ,

exerting proper pressure on the proper Z on e or ,

z ones f o r an adequate length of time will th e

, ,

pain disappear A nticipating such contentions

.
,

and to av o id the merest hint at sugg estion we ,

have purposel y re frained fr o m gi v ing manv

patients any idea that we were even contemp lat
ing the relie f of pain and the fi r st and only ,

suggesti o ns have been from the patient He .

will tell th at he experienced pain in his j aw eye , ,

small of back knee foo t o r S houlder before pr e s

, , ,

sure was made o n his fingers teeth or els e , ,

“
where and will ask where has the pain gone
, ,
?
”
H ave y o u d o ne anything to r elie v e it ?

P ath o l ogical c o nditi o ns fr o m irritat ion in th e

n o se epipharynx pharynx m o uth va g ina r ec
, , , , ,

tum etc may be resp o nsi b le not o nly for an

,
.
,

noy ing l ocal mani festations b ut for o b scu r e ,

 Z O NE T H ERAPY F O R D O CT O RS ON LY . 18 3

pa tho l ogica l changes in the most remote s ect ions

of the body ; and thei r course can usuall y b e
traced th r ough an indi vidu a l zone or grou p of
Z ones There is not an existing p atholog ic al
.

condition that cannot at least be relie v ed and a ,

large p r op o rtion can be cured b y z one ther a py .

Thi s S hows how necessar y it is that the p hysi

eian and surge o n sh o uld be capable of diagnosing

and t r eating di sease in all parts of the body ,

es p ecially i f his practice be limited to the coun

t r y w h ere he may be unable to consult wit h
,

s p ecialists I f the p athol o gical c o ndit ion he h a s

.

”
t r e a ted d o es n o t clear up the case S h o uld be
“

r efe rr ed t o the specialist or denti sts for to , ,

secure results all part s of the zo nes or grou p of

,

zones must be free fr o m o bstructi o n and i r ri t a

t ion .

Z one therapy demonstrates the co r elation of -

all parts of the body also the manner in which

,

p ressure o r contact up o n certain z ones is effec

ti v e in the relie f of pain or disease .

Diagnosis of the cause of pain may be worked

out quite per fectl y over o r through any z one or
p a r t of z one I f a patient c o mplains of pain
.
,

and indicates that the right eye is involved and ,

you overcome the pain by pressure o n the front

of the right inde x fi nger it is absolutely ce r tain
,

t h at his distur b ance is excited b y cong estion or

184 Z O N E T H E RA PY .

i rritat i on in the anteri or secti o n of the z o ne ; b u t

i f it be necessary to l o ok to the palmar sur fac e
O f the index finger for relie f the cause i s ce r tain

to e x ist in the poster ior section O f the zone or

zone s.

We have never suggested thi s work as a

panacea but finding it helpful in the treatment
,

of human ills we consider it an asset to ou r

,

knowledge O f medicine and surgery and ha v e ,

been glad to O ffer it gratuitously to physicians ,

surgeons and dentists and to all who can make

, ,

use O f it in the relie f O f a fflic ted humanity .

 C HA P T ER 18 .

F OO D FO R T H O U G H T .

H EN P r o fess o r R obert Fitzsimmons

delivered the famous punch in the
solar plexus that laid the mi gh ty
J ames Corbett upon whatever it is they co v e r a
’
bo x ing ring with he demonst rated to e v ery b ody s
—
,

’
satis fact ion except perhaps M r Co r bett s .

that there is a group of nerves in the pit O f the “

”
stomach which has an intimate and mo s t di s
tress ful connection with the brain A nd now .

e v ery doctor knows the func tions and connec

tions O f the pneumogastric ner v e .

G unmen pugilists and bouncers also know

“

, ,

that if the temple or the angle O f the j aw b e

, ,

even l ightly tapped “

the tap p ee is usually
,

placed hors de c o mbat for an appreciable pe r iod

of time G eneral knowledge O f thi s wei g hty
—
.

academic subj ect i s comparatively recent as

time i s reck o ned .

A nd the J aps in their uncanny knowledge of

,

ner v e anat omy exempli fi ed in thei r proficiency

,

in j ui j itsu ha v e S hown that by pressure upon

, ,

certain ner v e terminals or upon p l exuse s of ,

( 1 86 )
 FOO D F O R T I I O U G II T . 18 7

ner v e groups they are able to do almost every

thing except murder a v ictim P e r haps they .

could do this also i f they were su fficiently in

, ,

du striou s and perseverin g .

Indeed for many y ears they ha v e been aware

,

that there are certain nerve centers in the neck

and under the angle O f the j aw pressure upon ,

which will temporarily suspend c o nsc i o usness .

In fact their methods were tried by surgeons

, ,

prior to the di sc o very of anesthesia ; but were

discarded o wing to the fact that no one could
,

g uarantee that the patient s w o uld wake again

after the o peration .

A lso as showing how great oaks from little

,

acorns grow and how mickle and mickle makes

,

muckle P rofessor \V illiam H alstead more than

, ,

a dozen years ag o was operating upon a man

,

—
with a rupture under cocaine anesthesia as he ,

thought It was fo und however a fter the opera

.
, ,

tion had been painlessly completed that the ,

moon stricken assistant had fo rgotten to put the

-

c o caine tablet in the syringe .

S O that all the anesthetic the patient got was

sterile water H owever thi s was enough f o r
.
, ,

the pressure of the water inj ection into the parts ,

had blocked the nerve tract and inhibited the ,

transmi ssion O f the message O f p ain .

This ex p erience may or may not ha v e g i v en

188 Z ON E T H ERA P Y .

Dr Cril e the clu e to hi s interesting and vastly

.
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”
imp o rtant disc o very o f nerve block but in any
“

, ,

event we learned something new about the

,

—
human body But and this is the point I wi sh
.

t o emphasize — w e are not through learning

about it yet .

S O i f some time a doctor tells you that a

,

woman of S ixty nine su ffering for years from

-
,

—
o ne S ided paralysi s made pressures twice daily
,

with an aluminum c o mb o n the top ( or front )

of the hand fav o ring the thumb side
,
— and in
tw o weeks noticed a decided improvement and ,

a fter fi v e months can now li ft her foot free f r om

’

the flo o r and walk without a cane don t sneer ,

.

I f another tells you that a case of infantile

,
—
paralysis of five years standing a fter s everal’

months treatment with a probe on the back wall

’

O f the pharynx can now kick as high as hi s

,

S houlder with either foot d o n t sco ff F or that

’
.
,

doct o r has ph o tos O f the boy showing him in the ,

act O f doing j ust this identical thin g .

It may also be that catarrhal appendic iti s i s

helped For in unorthodox ways three cases of
.

catar rhal appendicitis were apparently cured b y

pressures exerted with a comb o v e r the fi r st ,

sec o nd an d third finger and carried up as far as

,

the wri st These cases were diagnosed as

.

catarrhal appendic it is by seve ral competent

190 ZO NE T H ERAPY .

front and back of the hand and also press with ,

the aluminum c o mb on the palms O f the hand to .

cure cold feet he may not be nearl y as cra z y as

,

he sounds H e may be merel y a little ahead of

.

y our time as we re H arve y S emmelwei s H orace

, . .

Wells L i ster and hundreds of o thers w ho have

, , .

su ffered the S lings and arr o ws of ridicule .

A nd S O we w ho believe in z o ne therap y now

,

understand why w e grind our teeth It i s b e .

cause the act i o n relieves nerve tension and .

diminishes the pain in all the zones of the bod y

c o nnect ed b y those invisible and as y et undi s
covered nervous wi res st rung through the te l e
graph poles of the teeth .

\V hen w e g rab our bruised S hins w e check the

t ransmi ssion of pain in the i r ritated nerve t runk
lines of that z one “ hen w e grasp the arm of
7 .

the dental chair and hang o n like grim death

. .

we are unconsciousl y go ing through motions

that i f continued l ong en o ugh w ould hav e made
, .

o ur t rial c omparativel y painless The onl y fau l t .

in ou r preparati on f o r th e ordeal was that we

sh ould h ave st a r ted ou r press u re g rip three or

four minutes earlier B u t ou r i ntent ions were .

g o od .

\t u a u tom atic all y w e c le nc h ou r fi sts in

furi ou s an g er w e a re relie v ing ou r terri fic

.

n er v ou s ex ci tati on and t h er eb y pe rh aps pre

.
 FOO D F O R T H O U G H T . 19 1

v enting the bursting O f a blo o d v essel When .

we clasp the hands O f one sorel y stricken and in

the throes of despai r we are in addition to
, ,

supplying him with com forting magnetism and

physical solace pr o duc ing a di stinctly analgesic
,

and quieting e ffect upon his enti r e ner v ous

system .

A nd when we clasp o ur hands or p r ess the

finge r s t ightly t o gether in S u p plication we are
-
,

ministering to o ver w r ought nerves and there

-
,

by p erha p s bringing ourselves into close r har

mony with the great C o smic F o rc e that envelo p es
us all in a mantle of kindness and l ove .

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