And, speaking of appendicitis, it is interesting to note that if pain is relieved by zone pressure, and returns after a short time, we can be morally certain that there is pus present, and that the case demands immediate operation. This same thing, as we before observed, applies to abscesses in the ear, teeth, tonsil, or anywhere else. The injunction to “prove all things and hold fast to that which is true,” is as applicable and pertinent today as it was when first dropped from the lips of the old sage. So, if some time your progressive doctor should tell you to rub your finger nails together, and scratch the front of your hands and arms, and thereby cure falling hair, don’t laugh--because he may be repeating to you only what numbers of his patients have told him they did--and stopped their hair from leaving its moorings. Also, if he tells you to use a wire brush on the front and back of the hand, and also press with the aluminum comb on the palms of the hand, to cure cold feet, he may not be nearly as crazy as he sounds. He may be merely a little ahead of your time, as were Harvey, Semmelweis, Horace Wells, Lister, and hundreds of others, who have suffered the slings and arrows of ridicule. And so, we who believe in zone therapy now understand why we grind our teeth. It is because the action relieves nerve tension, and diminishes the pain in all the zones of the body connected by those invisible and as yet undiscovered nervous wires strung through the telegraph poles of the teeth. When we grab our bruised shins we check the transmission of pain in the irritated nerve trunk lines of that zone. When we grasp the arm of the dental chair, and hang on like grim death, we are unconsciously going through motions that, if continued long enough, would have made our trial comparatively painless. The only fault in our preparation for the ordeal was that we should have started our pressure grip three or four minutes earlier. But our intentions were good. When automatically we clench our fists in furious anger, we are relieving our terrific nervous excitation, and thereby perhaps preventing the bursting of a blood vessel. When we clasp the hands of one sorely stricken and in the throes of despair, we are, in addition to supplying him with comforting magnetism and physical solace, producing a distinctly analgesic and quieting effect upon his entire nervous system. And when we clasp our hands or press the fingers tightly together in supplication, we are ministering to over-wrought nerves, and thereby perhaps bringing ourselves into closer harmony with the great Cosmic Force that envelopes us all in a mantle of kindness and love. [CONCLUSION.] Spelling corrections: