The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1917-06-09
SIMPLE WAYS TO DRIVE
AWAY PAIN.
Jnlla Truitt Bishop in Times Pioayune

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Zone IheFapy, OF Relieving Pain At
| Home, by. VIM r. Fitzgerald, NJ ID,
aud Edwin =, Bowers, NJ n; | W,
l.esg. publisher Columbus, Ohio What,
| ever else may be said Of IL, II may be
mentinAed IN The beginning that few
more entertaining medical works have
ever been issued from the press than
| this small volume which Is designed to
make the world acquainted with Zone
/ Therapy The author In graduate
of the University ef Vermont and speat
tive and half years Ia the Bosten
City Hospital He served two years Ia
the Central London Nose and Throat
Hospital For like period he was in
Vienna. where he vas assistant 20
! Professor polilizer and Professor otto
! Chiari, who We are assured are known
| wherever medical textbooks are read
For several years he has been The
senior nose and throat surgeon Of
NJ francis lIaapital, Ia Hartford. aud
il an active member OF most OF the
American medical societies
With this quite sufficient introdae-
ton, one ia admitted to the author and
his book It must be said Of him In the
beginning that apparently, be has Ho
ax TO grind Re advises the patient to
procure such things rs rubber bands
and spring etothesptns and aluminium
| eomhs you ean get them at pat store
be says, and they are generally used
for eombing dogs and you may add
to these wire hair brush bat there
IL 80 Indication that Or Fitzgerald
would profit BY penny, though you
bought rubber bands aud aluminium
combs by the carload Just get them,
he says; and then he will tell you how
10 cure most Of your minor ailments.
aud some not SO minor, and 10 cure
them at home.
Ia the frst place he presents hu.
man figure. with lines running up and
down as though il were clothed in a
vefy tight.htting suit of sport stripes.
These mark the ''zones which run
from head tn toe. and II there Is trouble
along the line Of any one Of those zones
yea may treat 1t Yourself, according to
lF Fitzgerald
f'or instance, IL you have rheumatic
pains an the outside of the ankle bone,
ehy. leave the ANKLE bone severely
alone aud press with considerable force
for four or five minutes on the second
Jint Of the little iuFer a the sides Of
| the finger.
What could be simpler than that?
Are you afflicted with headache
The next time you have q headache,
says nr Fitzgerald instead Of at.
tempting to paralyze the nerves Of
sensation With an opiate or q coaitar
| pain deadener push the headache out
/ through the top on your head Il mere.
IFS requires that you precs your thumb
or better still, some smooth. broad
metal surface, as n knife handle. firmly
against the roof of the mouth. as nearly
aa possible under the battle ground,
Iand hold II there from three TO FIVE
minutes. by the watch Headaches and
BrufaiEias of purely nervous origin
usually snbslae aader this pressure
within a few minutes
( One at the cures effected BY the
doctor himself IL described in detail
/ The patient had suffered from persist.
cut headache tor more than three years
and her heart waH In dangerous cen
dition, owing to the amount Of an.
J tipyrin and other headache powders
she had taken, II Is worthy OF note
| that she had tried Christian Science,
magnetic healing faith care aud other
/ things. as we'll az ,nost OF the prominent
nerve specialists, and when nj last she
eame TO the autlter of this book she
vas almost In condition OF hssteria
Without stopping 10 question her" he
says. Il washed my hands In an anti