After about three minutes he asked her if she would locate with her hand just where the pain was. She hesitated, looked up, and said, “Do you use mental therapy?” Then, after blinking perplexedly for half a minute, she added: “For the first time in three weeks, except when I’ve been under the influence of narcotics, the pain is entirely gone.” Dr. White told her to have someone repeat these finger pressures, at the same time emphasizing that if she failed to get relief from this method to come back. He has not seen her since. But the same condition in the same patient may not be cleared up from the same point every time. For instance, if the pain is in the second zone of the forehead, at one time we may stop it by “attacking” the forefinger. The next time, however, pressure upon that finger might not have the slightest effect, and we would have to go to the tongue or the roof of the mouth to get results. Another time we might be successful only from the nose--or by pressing the teeth of an aluminum comb on the skull, above or below the seat of pain--and so on. Now, physicians have for many years, been consistently teaching our patients and the public how not to get sick. Why not carry this teaching to its only logical conclusion, and teach them how, by perfectly safe and harmless means, they may, if sick, cure themselves of their minor ailments? It would add marvelously to the sum total of health, happiness, and economic efficiency if all headaches, for instance, which could be cured by zone therapy were cured and kept cured--by spreading the knowledge of how to keep them cured. We feel certain also that the medical profession, as soon as it is generally informed concerning zone therapy, will eagerly welcome the opportunity to promulgate the advantages of a safe and harmless method of relieving headache and pain. And also of doing away with the necessity for longer resorting to dangerous antipyrin or phenacetin tablets and powders. This is a crusade worthy of their highest altruism and noblest self-sacrifice. CHAPTER III. CURING GOITRE WITH A PROBE. One of the most obstinate disorders that afflict humanity--and one which seems to be rapidly on the increase--is goitre. Goitre is a general condition, in which the thyroid gland becomes progressively enlarged, producing an unsightly swelling low down on the front of the neck. Associated with this swelling--whether as a cause or as an effect no one knows for a certainty--is a distressing state of nervousness, apprehension, and general discomfort. Frequently the case becomes “exophthalmic” in type, running a pulse of 150 or more to the minute, and later developing irregularities in the heart’s action. In this form there is also a marked protrusion of the eye-balls, from pressure behind the globes of the eye, due to disturbances in the local circulation.