Dr. Roemer, however, examined him in a characteristic zone therapy way. He searched the patient’s fingers with a metal comb to find out what was the matter with his teeth. This search disclosed the presence of “spots” on the insides of the thumb and first finger which were acutely sensitive to pressures from the teeth of the comb. The diagnosis established, the treatment was simplicity itself. Commencing with light pressures upon these sensitive areas the doctor gradually increased the force applied to the comb, at the same time engaging the owner of the thumb and teeth in conversation relative to his business, and to the political situation--this latter a perennial source of interest-absorbing conversation in the West. After about ten minutes of this operation the doctor looked up and asked his victim “how the teeth were getting along.” After cautiously testing their sensitiveness by means of various biting pressures, the patient responded that “while they were still a little ‘sore’ the pain had entirely left.” The doctor then issued instructions as to how to apply rubber bands in order to make the proper pressure, which is to use one-fourth inch bands about two inches in length, bind them around the first joint--counting from the tip--of the thumb and first finger, leave them on until bluish discoloration appeared, then remove, and re-apply after a few hours. The traveling-man reported the following day that he had enjoyed a good night’s sleep--the first for many nights--and after forty-eight hours of this treatment he telephoned that all pain and sensitiveness had completely disappeared. In neuralgia and other painful conditions of long standing, where there are no decayed teeth--or other dental causes for the pain--many permanent cures have been effected by pressure treatment. Almost it would seem that whatever tends to reduce the pain would also help remedy its cause, no matter how remote. As illustrating, in detail, the successful “home treatment” of neuralgia, another case of Dr. Roemer’s is most interesting. The Doctor says “I saw recently a patient with tri-facial neuralgia of two years’ standing. Nothing had relieved permanently. The attack which brought him to me was of four or five days’ duration. During this time he had been unable to eat. Even the attempt to speak would bring on an acute paroxysm of pain of a sharp piercing nature, which radiated over the entire left side of the face, extending from the lower and the upper jaw, and up into the left eye. These paroxysms left him as ‘limp as a rag.’ “He had been advised to have the nerve cut, as offering the only relief for his trouble. “I applied rubber bands on the joints nearest the tip of the thumb and forefinger of the left hand. In less than ten minutes my patient was talking and laughing, and we had quite a visit.