[Illustration: FIG. 19.--Patient seventy-two years of age with carcinoma of left side of tongue, jaw, and pharynx. Two days before this picture was taken the patient was unable to open his mouth. The folded hands and open mouth indicate not only relaxation of the jaws, but the method in which it was brought about. Dr. J. W. Hogan painlessly extracted eighteen teeth for this patient under pressure anesthesia.] [Illustration: FIG. 20.--Patient with right hand in this picture is indicating with index and middle finger the location of his pain, and how he is overcoming it thru pressure on the arm of the chair with the tips of the thumb and fingers of the left hand. We seldom are obliged to resort to drugs for pain, even in malignancy.] In this attitude the toes and ankles are worked or “wriggled” briskly. Then the knees are flexed and extended a half dozen times or more. A body of men, apparently in the last stages of exhaustion, recuperate their energies with from five to fifteen minutes’ exercise of this kind. It can readily be seen how, by these exercises, all the zones in the body would be stimulated to a normal condition. And the fact that the exercises practiced are successful on a wholesale scale proves the principle sound. One of the most important things Americans have to learn is how to relax. Anything that will teach them to do this should prove a boon. Therefore I feel certain that, before many years, the principles and practices of zone therapy will be as familiar and universally applied as are now the principles of domestic hygiene or the practice of sterilizing baby bottles. And then zone therapy will add to the depth and breadth, as well as to the length of human life. CHAPTER IX. CURING LUMBAGO WITH A COMB. There is a solid and substantial satisfaction in having lumbago. For we know, without being told, that we have it, and we don’t have to work our imagination overtime providing it with symptoms. Also, lumbago offers less encouragement to mental or psychological healing than most anything ordinary we could gather up--except a broken leg, a crop of boils, or an abscessed tooth. And the same thing applies to its sisters-in-laws, rheumatism and sciatica. Therefore, anything that cures lumbago, rheumatism, sciatica, or similar afflictions, must be able to “deliver the goods.” On this basis zone therapy must be considered one of our most valuable methods for treating these obstinate conditions. Naturally it is not always successful. Neither are the salicylates, hot mud baths, porous plasters, nor having teeth pulled. And this is no more an apology for zone therapy than it is for medicine. Lumbago, as a rule, responds very quickly and kindly to zone therapy. Cases which come to the office “all doubled up” are straightened out--frequently in one treatment--and wend their homeward way rejoicing.