E is a regular flat applicator bent up at one end. This is useful about the throat and fauces. It can be used as a pressure applicator for the posterior wall of the oropharynx.
F is an ordinary aluminum comb used for attacking the fingers or toes either at the tips or about the joints.
Fig. 11.
But if he has a condition due to an excess of nerve or muscle tension, or if he has trouble produced by faulty circulation from any cause, squeezing his fingers will come nearer to curing him—and more expeditiously and satisfactorily—than any other treatment. If you don’t believe it, try it. It costs nothing but a few minutes’ intelligent effort.
CHAPTER V. MAKING THE DEAF HEAR.
Too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. For it keeps one thus afflicted from acquiring more.
Of course it seems outlandish and quite beyond the pale of reason, to ask a man who can minutely describe the semi-circular canals of the ear, or bound the internal labyrinth on the north, south, east and west, to believe that by pressing with a blunt probe behind the wisdom tooth, or at the angle of the jaw on the upper surface, the hearing of the adjacent ear can be materially benefited. Or that a similar result would follow squeezing upon the joints of the ring finger, or the toe corresponding to the ring finger. And this, after every other scientifically accredited method, administered by the world’s greatest specialists, had failed. Yet such is the fact. For it is the experience of physicians, familiar with the practice and principles of zone therapy, that nine out of ten cases of otosclerosis (thickening or chronic congestion of the membranes of the ear) can be improved from 25% to 90%. And, that ringing in the ears and “ear noises,” or catarrhal deafness, can be relieved in an even larger number of cases. If there is any hearing left at all, these methods are almost certain to improve it.