[Illustration: FIG. 21.--When I first saw this patient (January 9, 1913), the enlargement in the neck, pronounced cancer, and inoperable, by some of our best men in New England, was stony hard and exceedingly painful to the touch. She had not been able to lie down for nine months, and had not taken any solid food for three months; could open the mouth only slightly, and with great difficulty. We induced speedy relaxation of the neck (it was absolutely relaxed in four treatments) through pressure with a dry cotton-wound applicator and also with a pencil moistened with trichloracetic acid in varied strengths from twenty-five per cent to a saturated solution, throughout the appropriate zones in the mouth, nose and epipharynx. This patient responds quickly to pressure, and accurately traces sensations of glow or numbness from the mouth to the extremities and vice versa. These sensations are almost immediately followed by lines of anesthesia. Note the neck of this patient (see Fig. 22) fourteen months later. Patient through pressure on fingers of zones involved keeps side of neck constantly anesthetized, and therefore free from irritation, with constant absorption of growth.] If, however, the stomach is “dead”--the doctors call it “atonic”--when it lies inert and unambitious after a heavy meal--or even a small meal that is heavy for that stomach at that particular time--the best results are found in gentle stroking or scratching with a wire hair brush, or with the teeth of the comb. If these are not available scratch with the finger nails, but, as with the pressures, the most favorable results follow the use of metal. [Illustration: FIG. 22.--Photograph of patient in Fig. 21 seventeen months after her first treatment. After three years improvement still continues.] Remember that scratching stimulates, while deep pressure with the teeth of the comb, finger nails or wires of the hair brush relaxes. Also the next time the baby is restless and inclined to double up and yell murder, instead of doing a slippered constitutional up and down the room with him, scratch the backs of his hands. If he’s had too much to eat this may quiet him. If, however, his little “tummy” is “working,” try some pressures on his hands or feet, and see how soon the “tummy” will knock off work. And, for the same sufficient reasons, try the same thing on yourself and the family, instead of “banging” the stomach over the head with a dose of dope. The morning sickness of pregnancy yields quite uniformly to deep pressures on the backs of the hands, and it is much safer to try and control this nausea from the hands than it would be to resort to the severe pressures on the tongue. For these latter, if too drastic, might produce a miscarriage.