In connection with the subject of confinement and operations upon women this report from Dr. G. Murray Edwards, of Denver, Colorado, is of peculiar interest: “Mrs. McK., age 35; pregnant four and a half months; multipara. Placenta praevia (a grave condition, in which the afterbirth precedes the child in delivery), aborted Dec. 5, 1915, curettement (scraping out of the uterus), Dec. 7, 1915. Temperature 99, pulse 80. This case occurring during Dr. White’s lecture course in Denver, when Dr. Fitzgerald’s pressure method of analgesia was being discussed, I decided to try it out for the first time on this patient. She being a very nervous woman, I felt a little reluctant in the experiment. I did not tell her, however, I was going to use a new method, but quietly placed three elastics, an eighth of an inch wide, on each foot, one around the large toe at the first joint, and one around the others similarly in pairs. “After fifteen minutes, preparing my instruments in the meantime, I told her we were ready, and while we did not intend to use chloroform, instructed her carefully to tell me immediately if she felt any pain whatsoever. The curettement was conducted in every detail as though she were under general anesthesia, and as I questioned her frequently as to pain, she always came back with a smile and a negative reply. “We removed fully a teacupful of placental tissue in about ten minutes, while the patient passed the time joking, and when finished assured me she felt much better than when we started, as she was nervous looking forward to the anesthetic. This I consider a typical case, and have no misgivings as to its working generally.” In similar strain scores of letters tell of the successes attending the employment of this method in labor, and in operations upon women. Now, I do not contend that a few score, or a few hundred swallows make a summer, but their presence undoubtedly indicates that summer may be well on the way. All this may sound foolish in the extreme. Yet there are many other things equally foolish in the practice of medicine. And if zone analgesia will do what we claim for it, it may well be taken gently by the hand, lifted out of the foolish class, and placed among the ultra-sensible procedures--where, by right, it belongs. CHAPTER 7. ZONE THERAPY FOR WOMEN. In the eternal fitness of things there would be something radically wrong if zone therapy did not offer some especial and particular help to women. It is a satisfaction to state that the eternal fitness of things is right, as usual. For zone therapy is as unique in this connection as in most of its other applications.