Fig. 19.—Patient seventy-two years of age with carcinoma of left side of tongue, jaw, and pharynx. Two days before this picture was taken the patient was unable to open his mouth. The folded hands and open mouth indicate not only relaxation of the jaws, but the method in which it was brought about. Dr. J. W. Hogan painlessly extracted eighteen teeth for this patient under pressure anesthesia.
Fig. 20.—Patient with right hand in this picture is indicating with index and middle finger the location of his pain, and how he is overcoming it thru pressure on the arm of the chair with the tips of the thumb and fingers of the left hand. We seldom are obliged to resort to drugs for pain, even in malignancy.
In this attitude the toes and ankles are worked or “wriggled” briskly. Then the knees are flexed and extended a half dozen times or more. A body of men, apparently in the last stages of exhaustion, recuperate their energies with from five to fifteen minutes’ exercise of this kind.
It can readily be seen how, by these exercises, all the zones in the body would be stimulated to a normal condition. And the fact that the exercises practiced are successful on a wholesale scale proves the principle sound.