But the results are quite as effective—although not as rapid—if the patient has no idea concerning what is being attempted.
CHAPTER 15. DR. WHITE’S EXPERIENCE.
One of the most thoro and able diagnosticians in America, if not in the world, is George Starr White, M. D., of Los Angeles, Cal., discoverer of the bio-dynamic method of diagnosis. I reproduce a small portion of his experiences in zone therapy and zone anesthesia—as detailed in his Lecture Course.
“A few years ago, while experimenting on the anesthetic effect of the Tesla current, I observed that by giving a current that produced a severe shock to the fingers, I was able to pierce them with needles and not feel pain. I did not realize why these results were obtained. But experiments on animals gave me a hint. For one of my horses backed into a window, and got a large piece of glass into the sacral region (near the tail). We tried, without success, to put her into a narrow stall and tie her legs so we could operate, as a large incision had to be made to extract the foreign body. Finally one of our men suggested that we tie a slipper-noose, which he called a ‘twitch’, around the horse’s nose. He made this ‘twitch’ out of a piece of thin rope, put it on the horse’s nose, and we started to operate. The result was a collision between the horse’s hind legs and my abdomen. I told the man to put the ‘twitch’ on again, tie it tightly, and hold it for two or three minutes. Then, altho I made a deep incision to take out the glass, the horse did not flinch.
“I realize now that we used zone anesthesia, as the sacral region and the nose are in the same zone. At other times we have had occasion to do minor operations on cows and pigs on my experiment farm, and have noticed that, by putting a ‘twitch’ on the nose, the animals did not seem to experience any pain.
“Also, before anesthesia was so well known, I remember seeing surgeons do minor operations on individuals who would take no chloroform. Almost always the patients closed their teeth, or clinched their hands on some rough substance. Then ‘they could stand anything.’
“Later I heard Dr. William H. Fitzgerald explain zone therapy. Then I realized that we have always used zone therapy, although we did not know it.
“After spending a few days with Dr. Fitzgerald, I met at a dinner party, a lady who had a severe frontal headache. Obtaining her permission to try a new ‘cure’, I exerted pressure upon the thumb, first and second fingers, and within five minutes the headache had disappeared. I had similar success in treating a toothache.