the noted tenor, who relieves “tight” throat by making strong traction on the tongue. By pressure on the anterior third of the tongue, and by stimulating the outside lateral aspects of the fore fingers (which distinctly govern the vocal cords) Sorrentino has relieved himself and many of his friends of what promised to be serious throat conditions.] In other words, if, instead of squeezing and making strong traction on the tongue, or of using a depressor on this member, they were to do these things and, in addition, apply firm pressure on the floor of the mouth, beneath the tongue, with a cotton-tipped metal probe (see Fig. 6), dipped in spirits of camphor or alcohol (to increase the “impulse”), their results would be far more certain and satisfactory. In all cases of hoarseness, huskiness, or in loss of voice due to irritation or strain--as in clergyman’s sore throat--these practices almost invariably give relief. I remember a case of a soprano whose upper register was completely lost through long-continued strain. The floor of her mouth--directly under the tongue, and up to the roots of the lower incisor teeth, was “prodded” intermittently for a period of fifteen minutes, with the metal probe. The cotton on the tip of the probe was dipped in some pungent agent, for the purpose, as before stated, of increasing the nerve “response.” Marked improvement followed the first treatment. She was, however, cautioned not to attempt to use the voice, except for a moment or two after treatments--to observe the effect. The singer also carried out “home treatments,” consisting in five-minute firm applications of a tongue depressor (see Fig. 17) on the center of the tongue. This was done every four hours. In addition, she squeezed the sides of her thumbs. This action, especially if accompanied by digging the finger nails into the inner side of the thumb--which area is distinctly in the vocal chord zone--has a specific effect upon the vocal chords. Within three days this lady had completely recovered, and was able to return to her company. Zone therapy has, in innumerable instances, restored speaking voices that were as lost as the Lost Hope. Indeed, it is of common occurrence to have a clergyman, a lawyer, or a business man who has become aphonic (voiceless) from long dictation, or some other vocal strain, come to the specialist in zone therapy, unable to speak above a whisper, and within a half hour go his way rejoicing--practically as “good as new”. This, by application of the probe on the floor of the mouth, pressures on the tongue, and sometimes pressures on the thumb and fingers, any and all of which procedures can be successfully used by any intelligent man or woman in the relief of their own troubles, or in curing these troubles in their family.