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i eed . ‘ case oes SS ye ~bago, p Method of Relieving Pain, Explained by Discoverer, af 2. W. H. Fitzgerald, YVho Says, ‘‘Any One Can Do It!’’ By Roger Batchelder. Copyright, 192 ally places his hand or wound? are in pain, and why all agree that at least? 2 (New York Evening World) by Press Publishing Co AVE you ever noticed that a person with toothache habitu to the cheek outside the afflicted spot and seems thereby to obtain relief? Have you ever wondered why the child who bumps his head immediately puts his band against the bruise Do you know why people grit their teeth when they it relleves the pain for the moment, Can you explain why electricity seems to come from your fingers after you have scraped your feet on @ rug on a cold day, and then have placed your hand near a radiator or an electric light fixture? Those apparent phenomena, or !n- stinctive acts, are explainable to-day. tf you will listen for a moment to the theories of Zone Therapy, as pro- Pounded by Dr. William H. FitzGer- ald, former physician of the Boston City Hospital; former laryngologist to St. Francis Hospital, Hartford; graduate of the Vermont Medical Col lege; member of the Allied Medica! Asociations, and for over twenty years a practising physician, special- ist, and discoverer of Zone Therapy. Dr. FitzGerald declares that dentis- try can be robbed of its terrors by nerve pressure; that#insomnia can be cured by stroking the backs of the hands and the forearm: that lum. which has resisted medical treatment, can be permanently and quickly cured by firmly pressing the teeth of a comb over the palm of the hand; that most headaches can be cured in a few minutes by pushing the thumb on the roof of the mouth; that painful conditions in women are effectively relieved by pressing the handle of a spoon upon their tongues; that hundreds of disagreeable and dangerous conditions can be cured by Means so simple that they actually feem absurd. There are to-day scores of men and women In and about Hartford, Conn., who swear by Dr, FitzGerald as the “Miracle Man.'' Women who have been doomed to die, men who have seen helplessness as their only lot through life, boys and girls who were never, according to the verdicts given, destined to act and play like their friends, are now on the same physical footing as thelr fellows. At least, that writer, as they spoke of their physical regenera- tion ‘‘just'’—as some might say—''by rubbing the fingers, the toes, and other parts of the body." Nowadays, if we are in some hotels of recent origin, we can press one button and have ice water within a few minutes; two buttons signifies our esire for a shine; and three, per- haps, for a strong youth to carry our baggage to the l6bby, Or again, we know that a certain damsel listens to us as we give a telephone number, and then ins: a plug into @ switchboard. Bell ring- ing, entirely apart from us and from the switchboard, follows. Before long, we are talking with some one. But, as in the previous instance, our own activity consisted only in giving a verbal or electrical order. The human body may, for the mo- ment, be regarded as a switchboard, eomposed of thousands of plugs and circuits, none of them correlated un- Jess a relation is established. Cer- tain functions are normal and nat- ural and go on just as the current through the ordinary sawitoh- board, But tf a definite goal or num- ber is to be reached, it must come through a certain individual and def- inite action—plugging the switch- board in the correct manner. Our human switchboard, according to Dr. FitzGerald, needs only the “plugging for a perfect correlation between one “number” and another The hand, the foot, the mouth, the ear, the arm, the leg—all have cor- relation, and all, while individually distinct, are interdependent and can bo reached by “plugging” the right “number” in another part of the body. If it were not for electrical energy, he tells us, none of us would be pres- ent and voting to-day. And that energy, which runs through the hu- man body with a power which is not to be defined by the most powerful microscope, is the basis of his obser- vations and his results This is the “electricity” which “jumps” after we have walked on a nd when wé touch & eadiator. so proves, the doctor says, the correlation between different parts of the body on which he bases his oper- ations, what tela At the recent session at Atlantic ity of the Allied Medical Associations, Dr. FitzGerald remarked that he had appeared before many societies from ecast to coast within the past ten years and bad tried to give the man who says ‘A thing that sounds so im- possible can't be #0" a chance to re- tute the principles of Zone Therapy. “Zone Therapy has come to stay, be said, And Dr. FitzGerald belteves that statement just as he believes that the sun will report for duty to-mor- row morning. And here is the theory, which many claim has been successful, and which 1s intended to reduce to an infinites! mal minimum the catalogue,of human physical woes, First divide the body in half. That imaginary line is the medi- an. On either side there are five distinct vertical zones. The first zone, for instance, beginning at the thumb, runs through the entire body to the big toe on the same side. Then come the second, third, fourth and fifth zones, cor- responding in the body to the fin- gers and toes of that numerical classification. If pressure is applied across the cor- rect portions of any zone it will re Neve pain in any part of that zone Tho pressure, which need not be fore ible, will result in 4 genera! and natu ral anaesthesla or restfulness through out the zone. Thus, if there were pain in the second right zone—the second toe, for instance—pressure on the finger of the second left zone would be of no use, while pressure on the second finger of the right hand— the same side and zone that in which the pain exists—would result in a minimum of pain, and, if the ap plication were properly applied, an absolute negation of distress. In each zone the finger corresponds with the toe, the wrist with the ankle and the knee with the elbow. On that account, the corresponding member in the upper or lower part of the body should be pressed firmly at some point where there is little flesh over the bone. Dr, FitzGerald's first order to a pa tient seems somewhat apart from this general theory, however. He places the subject on the scales and meas ures his height. “Now, take a natural position," says. The patient usually slumps forward He is then ordered to draw in his stomach. The patient is then meas- ured again, and finds that he has actually grown from half an inch to ELASTIC RUBBER BANDS MAY BE USED TREATING ALL ZONES ON RIGHT SIDE, ‘YOUR TOOTHACHE YOUR HEADACHE YOUR BACKACHE Zone Therapy, the Newest THE BASIS OF ZONE THERAPY— BY THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, TRY THIS FOR’ BACKACHE, ; , ; ANY METAL STRIP WILL DO. } i i ‘ i sy ; Hl . a! \ iI ‘| \ | ! It ' i! ' 4 \ i ’ “ Wott DIAGRAM OF 1 of POSTERIOR ZONES you ON ONE SIDE OF vv yt THE BODY. nt BOTH SIDES OF 1 it THE BODY ARE fod THE SAME. TREATING FRACTURED ARM WITH RINGS CORRECT POSITION— DEMONSTRATED DOCTOR FITZGERALD an ineh and a halt, Without drawing a breath his chest has expanded about three inches; his body is in a normal and correct position “That ts an old story for arms men," says the doctor, “but know the real reason for it Ww a languid ace and spend about twenty-four hours ina tion, We relax as wo « walk, denying the body the five ot ke the fing six hours’ tepsion which are n De erald “sta \ Ho ‘stroke,’ as illustrated. Other in- ues Tattieal =i i pears oa, ka sary for health, ‘That tense position, finda» AeAloled spat, ¢ the struments which ho uses include the pis carlic: papers on meee et which soon becomes natural, will put corresponding spot in the same zone, percussion hammer, which may bO doctor 1eccmmandy ie Srbsect the an end to flat feet, varicose veins, and and applies pressure. Using a com- used in all zones, and the metal rings, put at Atlantic tite he wy ee nat most of the cases of pulmonary tuber- preasor, a rectangular f metal, which are also illustrated, There 14 even the liglitest stroke dtt as much culosis upper part of the lungs. with dull spines like those of « comb, however, no necessity tor using thes work. Accordinuly, the often treats being onen, ix constantly aerated, or hy strokes gently the spot, trans: in the home, A wire brush may difforent pa of the body by gently housecleaned.’ That position is the versely, always beginnir m the the place of the “stroke; any sssaging ps and ny with most important factor for health outside, toward the med lav instrument with a rubber he 1 small metal “This tension gives the body ‘pres- would be the treatment s the hammer; and rubber Now thig, teletly, js the doctor's ex sure analgesia,’ better resistance from oy an aching toe instar n take the place of the rings. planation for t ayman of his sys- head to foot, including the eyes, cars. ailments call for an upstrok longi niet it : ; » tem and the why works. palate, &c. Pressure analgesia and ¢ g the body, though , baer § Jarwer oriftens of the ‘aftlictions « anne by Zone Therapy are the same th in or “up and 204%) accor to Dr. FitzGerald, irritation of 8. which and the basis of my whole system.’ down" stroke is used. Dr. FitzGerald has the ten zones, divided in half by themselves cause pain, By this gentic After an examination and ¢ the imaginary dian line 1 whieh, pressure the patn ts deadened, just as i uses for this a lad © metal the imag! median fine, and ; ' JUNE 19, _1922, Just Press a Finger ! A WIRE BRUSH WILL \ DO AS WELL. HAMMER we find relief when we grit ou jold tightly an injueed membe t sp the arm of the dentist's r when he hurts us. But we do it un- clentifically, without regard for th zones and not knowing the spot cot responding to that which is injured When the pain is deadened naturally, the irritation stops, and as soon as the critation stops nature gets to worl ind rebuilds the injured parts, throw ng off the infected tissue. This deadening pain is of varying duration, It goes away suddenly when pre is applied for the first time but after a while may return. Ke- newed applications at regular inter- vals cause the complete arrest of dis- ss. Dr. WitzGerald carefully ex plains ‘‘what to do to the patient after that, he says, the patient can apply the pressure as well as he, ar the treatment is given at home r-hen- ever pain begins Dr. FitzGerald is not an extremist His system is not intended to be a “cure-all.” Rather, it is intended first to educate people in the right way of living and prevent trouble; then it is intended to help physicians, dentists and people in general to feaden pain whenever possible, A omplete medical education, he says, is an absolute necessity for any on who intends to practice zone theraphy or anything similar in character, and he contends that ‘‘correspondence course diplomas’’ should be prohibited by law in every brand of the medical profession, Medicine is often necessary for dis and so is surgery in some in stances nating either, work minimizes the necessity them. There is much good, he n, in ordinary medical practice, sur- gery, dentistry, osteopathy and chiro- actic, but all of these would be much simpler, much more effective, if zone therapy were universally under- stood and applied when desirable In illustration of the feasibility of his work, Dr. FitzGerald in less than one minute, by several transverse strokes across a woman's thumb, so leadened the entire “zone 1" that the woman felt ao discomfort when He has no thought of elim- Mut declares that lis for er eyo was gently prodded with # cotton-covered stick, or pain when pins were stuck into tI thumb. ‘The above is presented to the public as Dr, FitzGerald’s explanation of the work which he has done. It was thus though in professional to the medical men at Atlantic City. ' For twenty years he has quiet ly worked on the subject, and his only expressed desire to-day ts to give, not sell, the whole plan to the medical profession aid them in their work, His book, one her tells the whole ‘secret ders who wish to “take a try at iv’ might experiment with some of the examples described and i trated in the box accompanying this article, HOW YOU CAN APPLY ‘‘ZONE THERAPY”’ FOR COMMON ACHES AND PAINS TO FIND THE RIGHT ZONE of an ache, press a metal comb firmly across hand. sponding position of the ache. Apply pressure to the finger in the right zone, or stroke gently, always toward the centre of your body, or the median. Place your hands flat on the table, and the zone is determined, starting with the thumb as zone 1. If the palm is up, likewise The place where it hurts denotes the corre- start counting from the thumb. (See right.) illustration No. 1, at TO RELIEVE PAIN (gen- rally) slip an uncomfortably tight rubber band around the finger or toe in the right zone and leave it in place for five to fifteen minutes. Repeat the op- eration several times a day, for several minutes if necessary= i. e., if left thumb is injured, apply to corresponding left toe. (See illustration No. 2, at left.) HEADACHE—Push roof of mouth, No. 3, at right.) on the (See illustration TOOTHACHE—An ache of any of the first three teeth, beginning in middle of jaw, can be con- trolled by pressure or stroke of thumb with a comb on corre- sponding side: next two teeth by forefinger; next two molars by seoond finger; wisdom teeth by third and fourth fingers, (Seo FATIGUE or “Jumpy" Sen- illustration No: 4, at left.) sation—Put rubber band around wrist: (See illustration No. 5, at right.) “WHEN BABY CSIES some’ irritation is usually — present Gently rub both feet—~all ten zones. (See illustration No, 6, at left.)