“One of the doctors in a Chicago class, on hearing of zone anesthesia, told me that about two years previous he was suffering from inguinal hernia (rupture) and a radical operation was advised. He went to the hospital, and the anesthetist began to prepare him for the anesthesia. He told them that he wanted no anesthesia, as he was going to have the operation done without taking anything. The surgeon was loath to operate without some kind of general or local anesthetic, but he told him he wanted nothing, as he thought he could control himself. The surgeon consented, but had ready chloroform and a hypodermic with cocaine. The Doctor clinched his teeth and hands with all his might, and put himself into as powerful a tension as possible for about three minutes before lying on the table. He then laid down, relaxed, and said ‘go ahead.’ From the beginning to the end of the operation all he noticed, he said, was that there was something going on, but he felt absolutely no pain. I looked at his teeth, and saw that the occluding (biting) surfaces were very good indeed, which accounts in a great measure for the efficacy of the zone anesthesia. “Dr. Fitzgerald has treated many cases of cancer and tumor, and has had some extraordinary successes with some of them. He carefully avoids any reference to the value of zone therapy in these conditions, but, to my mind, the results achieved warrant mention. I saw two most interesting cases in his practice. One, a lady, about 55 years of age, had a growth on the side of her neck, diagnosed as cancer. By the bio-dynamic method, I confirmed this diagnosis. This growth was as large as an ordinary sized orange, and very hard and unyielding. The lady told us that, until she began being treated by means of zone therapy and zone analgesia, she had not slept for months without some opiate. For more than two years now she said she had taken no opiates, and had rested without any pain when zone pressure anesthesia was used. “When I saw this lady the size of the growth had diminished from this treatment, until it would not be recognized except by palpation (feeling with the fingers). I also saw her photograph, taken before she began treatment, and the improvement was certainly remarkable. I do not know whether zone therapy will ever cure this case, but we do know that it is making life endurable to the unfortunate victim. “Several of my pupils have used the Fitzgerald method for operation on turbinate and other nasal obstructions, as well as upon obstetric (childbirth) cases, with most gratifying results in all of them.