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                             ZONE THERAPY

                                  OR

                        RELIEVING PAIN AT HOME


                                  BY

                       WM. H. FITZGERALD, M. D.

                                  AND

                        EDWIN F. BOWERS, M. D.

                 Author of “Side Stepping Ill Health”
            “Alcohol--Its Influence on Mind and Body,” etc.


                            COLUMBUS, OHIO:
                         I. W. LONG, Publisher
                                 1917




                            COPYRIGHT, 1917
                                  BY
                              I. W. LONG




CONTENTS.


  CHAPTER I.                               PAGE

  Relieving Pain by Pressure                 15

  CHAPTER II.

  That Aching Head                           24

  CHAPTER III.

  Curing Goitre With a Probe                 32

  CHAPTER IV.

  Finger Squeezing for Eye Troubles          43

  CHAPTER V.

  Making the Deaf Hear                       50

  CHAPTER VI.

  Painless Child Birth                       61

  CHAPTER VII.

  Zone Therapy for Women                     76

  CHAPTER VIII.

  Relaxing Nervous Tension                   84

  CHAPTER IX.

  Curing Lumbago with a Comb                 93

  CHAPTER X.

  Scratching the Hand for Sick Stomach      104

  CHAPTER XI.

  Hay Fever, Asthma and Tonsillitis         111

  CHAPTER XII.

  Curing a Sick Voice                       120

  CHAPTER XIII.

  A Specific for Whooping and Other Coughs  129

  CHAPTER XIV.

  How a Phantom Tumor was Dissipated        138

  CHAPTER XV.

  Dr. White’s Experience                    142

  CHAPTER XVI.

  Zone Therapy--for Dentists Only           148

  CHAPTER XVII.

  Zone Therapy--for Doctors Only            171

  CHAPTER XVIII.

  Food for Thought                          186




INTRODUCTION


Thousands of lives are lost annually from diseases which could have
been prevented. Hundreds of thousands, because of some preventable
ailment, which partially or totally incapacitates them, are today
living only a small part of their lives. Millions of dollars yearly are
squandered on medicines, doctors and undertakers--much of which might
have been saved by a right knowledge of the laws of health and hygiene.

Even among the comfortably situated, or even well-to-do, robust,
vigorous health is the rarest of possessions. The most rugged-looking,
on being closely and sympathetically catechised, will admit to a
“touch of rheumatism”; a chronic stomach, liver, or kidney trouble;
nervousness, headaches, neuralgia, constipation, or something that
tends to prevent his attaining completest physical power and mental
efficiency. And the weaker sex more than justify their descriptive
adjective. For 80% of those not directly under a physician’s care, or
taking some medicine or form of treatment for something, should be.

Conditions are improving, however. There is a dawn of hope for
humanity. For good health is being made a fetish. It is becoming a
gospel--a gospel preached in schools, newspapers, magazines, churches
and theatres. Accurate knowledge concerning sanitation, sexology, food,
clothing, exercise, sleeping, resting, and all hygienic measures, is
becoming more and more widely disseminated.

Humanity is awakening to the fact that sickness, in a large percentage
of cases, is an error--of body and mind. Ignorance of the injurious
effects of wrong foods, drinks, habits and