Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-03-04
RUBS NOSE TO
CURE PATIENTS
SURGEON REACHES PARTS BY
NASAL STIMULATION.
Noted Medical Men WORKING Alonu
Many Similar Lines He

DR.. Pierre BONNER, a distinguished
Paris physician, has published an ac-
count Of a novel method of treating
disease.
He calls this method "centrothera.
py," meaning the cure of disease
through the treatment of the central
nervous system. In practice the meth.
cd consists of applying slight stimu-
lation to certain areas in the nasal
cavaties, which are in close relation
to the nervous centers that control
every part of the body. The stimu-
latiLn is slight cauterization ordi-
narily used by throat and nose spe-
cialists.
DR.. BONNER reports that in the last
six years he has treated 100000 cases
by cauteriZation at the great Hotel
Dfeu hospital in Paris, at the Poly
clinic maintained by Baron Henri de
Rothchild and in private practice.
In his book he gives record of
about 1000 cases, in all of which he
claims to have obtained complete
cures or great improvement. The all
msnts rteated range from headache
to cancer.
1t is interesting to note that other
medical men are working along close
ly related lines. DR.. William H. Fitz.
gerald, a nose and throat specialist,
Of st. Francis hospital, Hartford, CT,
recently reported q remarkable sys-
tenn Of treatment through sensitive
spots in the nose.
DR.. Fitzgerald produces complete
anesthesia Of certain parts of the
body by pressing down a related area
in the nose. By this method he can
remove a foot without using an anes.
thetic, the patient feeling no pain. BY
simply massaging the area in the nose
DR.. Fitzgerald can cure diseases in
the related area in the body.
Others have discovered a ,lose con-
nection between the nasal cavity and
diseases apparently far removed.
While studying infantile paralysis at
the Rockefeller institute DR.. Simor
Flexner and his colleagues found that
the germ of this terrible disease en-
tered the body first through the nose,
then made its way along the olfactory
nerve to the brain and thence to the
spinal marrow, where it does most
OF its damage.
The essential feature of the BONNER
method consists in applying the cau-
terry close to the centers of nerve con-
troll. These centers, he tells us, are
in the medulla oblongata, the bulb
which forms the top of the spinal col
umn, and is located within the skull.
In this bulb there is a center that con-
trolls every area of the body. Its
acti,i ity and vigilance are necessary to
the life and health of each part. If
disease gains an entrance at any part
Of the body, whether it be an infiamed
toe or an appendix, it means that the
functions of the nervous centers in the
medulla have been overcome In some
way.
The reason why the nervous centers
in the medulla can be reached through
the nasal cavity is that this is the
nearest surface in direct nerve COM
munication with the medulla. All the
other surfaces are related to the nerve
centers, but they are much further
away. All the remedies we now use,
according to DR.. BONNER, operate
through their effect on the nerve cen
terS. For instance, when the doctor
puts an ice pack on the abdomen to
reduce an ipflamed appendix, it does
not operate by directly freezing the
appendix, but sends stimulation to
the appropriate nerve center that
makes it try to do its work of keeping
the appendix in normal condition.
Just under the surface of the nasal
cavity runs branch of the great tri.
germinal nerve which supplies the
face and is in close relation to the me-
dulla. According to the theory of DR..
BONNER, a certain spot in the nasal
cavity leads back through the trigger
minal nerve to the center in the me-
dulla that controls some other part of
the body.
1.-THE medulla is the wise guardian
of our physiology by which our life
is continued from second to second.
Every illness is deviation from this
physiology. The medulla of every sick
man knows infinitely more than any
doctor; it is the great physician whom
we must consult. 1t is the conductor
of the medicine; when 1t goes wrong
it is because the medulla is out of
order or asleep. Instead of pushing on
the wheels of the automobile, regu-
late the source Of power. Wake it up
and it will work." says DR.. BONNER.
The relation of one nervous center
to another explains the extraordinary
manner in which one disease changes
into another or cures another. Thus,
according to DR.. BONNER, case of
asthma may cure inflammation of the
intestines; an eczema will cure asth.
ma, and then change into headache,
which will give way to hemorrhoids,
which will be followed by vertigo,
which will change into nervous pros.
tration.
In such cases the asthma may stir
I'M the neryous center which shOl,ld