Meantime she had been instructed to make pressures with a tongue depressor and with elastic bands (See Figures 17 and 5), for the relief of the breast pain--which relief, by the way, was quite complete. After a few weeks, this lady returned to her surgeon for further examination and to complete arrangements for operation. Upon examining, however, the surgeon found the growth so reduced in size that he expressed himself as unwilling to operate, as he saw no necessity for operating. The tumor has since completely disappeared--under these tongue pressure treatments. This patient, and the name of the surgeon who saw her “before and after,” are at the disposal of any physician who may regard this plain unvarnished tale as an old wives’ chronicle. A small uterine fibroid made a similar happy exit, as a result of pressures made on the floor of the mouth, directly under the center of the tongue. This patient next made a regular practice of squeezing the joints of her thumb, first and second finger, whenever she had nothing else important to do. And the result infinitely more than justified the means. Lymphatic enlargements, as painful glands in the neck, arm-pits, or groin, yield even more rapidly to this zone pressure than do tumors. And while no claims are made to the effect that cancer can be cured by zone therapy, yet there are many cases in which pain has been completely relieved, and the patients freed from the further necessity of resorting to opiates. And in a few cases the growths have also entirely disappeared. [Illustration: FIG 5.--Showing method of “rubber-banding” the fingers for trouble in the first, second and third zones.] The growth of interest in this work is most encouraging. Dr. FitzGerald and other physicians using zone therapy in their practice, have had scores of letters from patients they have never even seen, but who have written, expressing their appreciation for the relief secured through instructions from some of their patients, or through following out some suggestion from my articles in the magazines. I have reason to believe that there are now upwards of two hundred physicians, osteopaths and dentists, using these methods every day, with complete satisfaction to themselves and to their patients. And the number of laymen, and especially lay-women, who are preaching the doctrine in their own households, and among their circle of friends, must be legion. The adoption of the method is attended with absolutely no danger or disagreeable results, and may be the means of lengthening short lives and making good health catching. I, for one, hope that the numbers of those who may be inclined to learn and practice these methods upon themselves and upon the members of their families may ever increase and multiply. For this is a big idea, and a helpful one. Therefore, the more who make it their own the better for the human race. We shall now let Dr. FitzGerald continue the argument. CHAPTER II. THAT ACHING HEAD.