Dealing with the prevention and relief of disease through
fasting and its accessories
Preface- Nineteen years have elapsed since the author issued her first volume dealing with the prevention and relief of disease through fasting and its accessories. In each of the three succeeding ...
- Part One. Historical. Chapter I. The Pioneers Of Therapeutic Fasting In America
- Dr. Tanner's Forty Day Fasts: Fasting Experiences Of Dr. E. H. Dewey: Brief Account Of Dr. Hazzard's Work For Thirty Years In this chapter the author proposes ...
- The Pioneers Of Therapeutic Fasting In America. Part 2
- Dr. Tanner went further than this in later years, and, as he says in a letter to the author of date February 23, 1912: My second fast, publicly given, was called the 'Great American ...
- The Pioneers Of Therapeutic Fasting In America. Part 3
- Here, he continues, was an object lesson: (1) Vital power supported without food. (2) Mental and physical strength increasing with the decline of ...
- The Pioneers Of Therapeutic Fasting In America. Part 4
- In personal contact with Dr. Dewey and in a voluminous correspondence he ever dwelt with great inspiration and broad vision upon what he called New Gospel of Health, emphasizing at all ...
- Part 2. Theory Of Fasting. Chapter II. Unity Of Disease And Cure
- Fasting And Starvation Defined: Distinction Between Functional And Organic Disease: The Cause Of Impure Blood: The Nature Of Disease And Cure Disease and ...
- Unity Of Disease And Cure. Continued
- Inherent or congenital organic disease and functionally caused organic disease in its later stages embody defects in form, size, or cell structure of any one of the vital organs. Except in rare ...
- Chapter III. Starvation
- Starving From Overfeeding There Is No Hunger When Disease Is Manifest The chief purpose of food is that of supplying the tissue of the body with the elements necessary for its ...
- Chapter IV. When And Why To Fast
- The Time To Fast Is When One Is Ill: The Body Gets Sick As A Whole: General Hints About Fasting FASTING is indicated only when illness impends or is in actual evidence....
- When And Why To Fast. Continued
- The social surroundings of a fasting patient are of the utmost import. The effect of mental states upon physical well being will not be dwelt upon here, but, when friends and family object to the ...
- Chapter V. Illustrative Cases of Fasting
- Fasting Applied To Cases Of Inflammatory Rheumatism, Chorea, Epilepsy, Pregnancy, Etc. The cases dealt with in this chapter are typical but not exhaustive. They are selected ...
- Illustrative Cases of Fasting. Part 2
- I was totally incapacitated from actual manual labor of any kind before my fast, and I lived in dread of a second stroke, with a strange, unnatural depression evident upon slight over-...
- Illustrative Cases of Fasting. Part 3
- The general health of the patient apart from the distressing symptom described was excellent, strange to say. And to this a strong constitution and robust physique in large part contributed. ...
- Illustrative Cases of Fasting. Part 4
- Two days after the beginning of the fast, an abscess broke through the surface of the skin at the base of the spine immediately over the sacrum. The discharge from this sore was most profuse and ...
- Illustrative Cases of Fasting. Part 5
- Medical diagnosis of the next instance, a man thirty-eight years old, pronounced it a case of valvular heart disease, and medical prognosis gave no hope of recovery. There was severe pain in the ...
- Illustrative Cases of Fasting. Part 6
- A young man of twenty-three offers a case of the insanity of syphilis of the type known in medicine as meningitis. In this subject the blood taint was acquired by contact, and, when observed and ...
- Illustrative Cases of Fasting. Part 7
- It is to be remarked that the children of these two mothers are not only physically excellent examples, but are also mentally intelligent to a marked degree. These gratifying characteristics are ...
- Illustrative Cases of Fasting. Part 8
- During the early portion of the fast there were headaches and vomiting of greenish bile and mucus, and these distressing symptoms were present until the thirtieth day, when the patient was ...
- Part Three. The Technic 0f Fasting. Chapter VI. Caution And Counsel
- Competent Guidance Is Required For Protracted Fasts: Short Fasts: Corrective Dietary Much though it is to be desired by those who know the inestimable benefits to be ...
- Chapter VII. Preparation For The Fast
- True Hunger Disappears When Disease Approaches: Tapering Off To A Complete Fast: The Function Of The Liver: Two Plans For Fasting When disease appears in ...
- Chapter VIII. Symptoms Occurring During Fasting
- What Symptoms Mean: Variety Of Symptoms Produced By Elimination Symptoms of disease are the evidences of abnormal conditions that are present within the body, and they ...
- Symptoms Occurring During Fasting. Part 2
- In some diseased conditions the action of the heart is low, in others, it is high. While it is reasonable to expect that the beat of the heart will show lower register when the blood is laden with ...
- Symptoms Occurring During Fasting. Part 3
- To those, who, through high-living and overfeeding, have given the liver work beyond its capability, the experience of the fast is often trying. Bile is cast out in large amounts and floods the ...
- Symptoms Occurring During Fasting. Part 4
- The more usual indication of disease as it affects body temperature is fever, but in cases of differing temperament, quite frequently after the beginning of a fast, temperature drops a degree or ...
- Symptoms Occurring During Fasting. Part 6
- When headaches occur with other symptoms, they are of course due to sudden release of toxic matter, are commonly located in the frontal portion of the brain, and are coincident with the prior ...
- Symptoms Occurring During Fasting. Part 5
- A fast properly conducted can never cause delirium nor affect the mental processes other than favorably. Much of insanity is the result of congestion-producing functional disorder, and this sort ...
- Chapter IX. Difficulties Encountered In Fasting
- Drugs Cause Organic Troubles: Scientists Quoted On Fasting: Auto-Intoxication One of the most serious obstacles to general acceptance of the fast as a therapeutic ...
- Difficulties Encountered In Fasting. Part 2
- It cannot be fairly assumed that, upon dissecting a body after death, lesions that are present in any organ are due solely to previous drugging. Where two such agencies as disease and drugs have ...
- Difficulties Encountered In Fasting. Part 3
- Wounds and broken bones are healed and united by natural processes, and it is only through the operation of the latter that cures may be achieved. The fast and its accessories are not in ...
- Difficulties Encountered In Fasting. Part 4
- First let us hear Dr. W. A. Evans, who writes How to Keep Well, a syndicated letter at present published daily in various newspapers throughout the country. Dr. Evans has this to say ...
- Difficulties Encountered In Fasting. Part 5
- It is thus seen that obstacles are put in the way of the practice of fasting as a therapeutic measure by the scientist and by the ignorant layman, but this has a direct advantage in promoting ...
- Chapter X. The Duration Of The Fast
- Distinction Between Appetite And Hunger: The Law Of Hunger Determines The Length Of A Fast The duration of a fast to complete purification is a matter that can never be ...
- Chapter XI. Breaking The Fast
- Fruit Juices And Vegetable Broths: Gradual.Return To Solid Food: What About Milk? At one point in the discussion comment is made to the effect that one of the chief ...
- Breaking The Fast. Part 2
- In the ordinary instance a successfully completed fast should be broken by the ingestion of the juices of ripe fruit or of broths prepared from vegetables. The juices of fruits that are fully ...
- Breaking The Fast. Part 3
- Milk also contains five per cent of sugar. This sugar is not like that which is used on the table, but is much less sweet, and it acts differently from ordinary sugar in the processes of ...
- Part Four. The Hygiene Of The Fast. Chapter XII. Hygienic Accessories Of The Fast
- Breathing: Bathing: Sleep: Exercise Breating Nature has provided in the air that surrounds the earth a plentiful supply of oxygen, a gas that is ...
- Bathing
- The skin or covering of the human body consists of an outer layer called the cuticle, and of an inner one, the corium. These constitute the true skin, but under them lies a third layer of cellular ...
- Sleep
- Sleep has its analogue in death; and it is an accepted scientific truth that the continuance of life in any living thing depends upon death. Through life to death; through death to life again. One ...
- Exercise
- The maintenance of every muscle of the body in proportionate development is regulated by its work as well as by its supply of pabulum, although the latter is determined in large part by the ...
- Chapter XIII. Fasting and The Enema
- Description Of The Stomach And Intestines: The Fallacy Of Purgatives: The Principles And Use Of The Edema: Notes On Giving The Enema To Children And On ...
- Fasting and The Enema. Part 2
- Accumulations in the colon at times become so great that their weight tends to displace portions of the bowel, and several instances have been observed in whom the transverse colon from this cause ...
- Fasting and The Enema. Part 3
- Ninety per cent of all drugs taken into the system under medical direction is aimed to affect the intestines. Evacuation of the colon, where there is constipation, is procured by the ...
- Fasting and The Enema. Part 4
- For the administration of the enema the sole equipment necessary is that of a fountain syringe with its rectal-tube attachment. The syringe should be suspended about five feet above the floor of ...
- Fasting and The Enema. Part 5
- At times, even in those who have been accustomed to the use of the enema, difficulty is experienced in causing the water to penetrate beyond the sigmoid flexure. There may be slight griping pains ...
- Fasting and The Enema. Part 6
- When fasting, the enema is an essential daily adjunct, and at this time it should be administered on rising, or shortly thereafter, and before retiring. In health, as a preventive of self-...
- Fasting and The Enema. Part 7
- NOTE II Several positions are indicated as suitable and efficacious when an enema is administered, but perhaps that which will insure both comfort to the subject and complete flushing of ...
- Part Five. Natural Therapy. Chapter XIV. Children In The Fast
- Various Errors Concerning The Care Of Infants: Why Feed A Feverish Child? When the human child is born into the world, it is equipped with but three developed faculties--...
- Chapter XV. Sexual Disease And The Fast
- Menstrual Difficulties: The Menopause: The Orthodox And The Natural Approach To Gonorrhea And Syphilis: Masturbation The ultimate of therapeutic fasting ...
- Chapter XVI. Food And Disease
- The Purpose Of Food: Why We Overeat: Objections To The Germ Theory: Mucus Discharges The processes by which dead food is transformed into living ...
- Food And Disease. Part 2
- One reason for this lowering of mental guard is that most men possess gregarious intellects. If what is advanced seems to concur with whatever the mass mind believes, the common way is to accept ...
- Food And Disease. Part 3
- And all that is here said is in perfect consonance with the thesis of the text. For, reverting to infection, to the theory of the germ-causation of disease, it is seen that, while the process of ...
- Chapter XVII. Diet
- Perversion Of Taste And Smell: Thorough Mastication: Should Flesh Be Eaten? Diet at any time is largely a matter of special need, but it would seem that, after ...
- Diet. Part 2
- Fletcher uses in his description the term, appetite, in the sense that the word, hunger, is employed in the text. In the conditions that he so well expresses lies the solution of the problem of ...
- Diet. Part 3
- With the individual himself rests the selection of a healthful and properly distributed food supply. In order to maintain a normal body in perfect equilibrium, the amount and the selection of food ...
- Chapter VIII. Rest And Recuperation
- Muscular Rest: Best For The Digestive Organs: The Hibernating Animals: The Hunger Strke Of Mcswiney And Others Muscular tissue is continually undergoing ...
- Rest And Recuperation. Part 2
- Also, when disease is present, under the more prevalent methods, feeding is continuous in accordance with the doctrine that nourishment is at all times necessary to keep up strength. ...
- Rest And Recuperation. Part 3
- A hibernating bear never soils his den with urine or ordure, for no waste is formed, consequently none is voided. But, after the period of winter sleep is over, the animal feeds ravenously upon ...
- Chapter XIX. Mental And Physical Action And Reaction
- Mind Influences Function And Function Influences Mind: A Case Of Insanity: Sick Geniuses: The Subconscious Mind: The Example Of Jesus Muscular ...
- Mental And Physical Action And Reaction. Part 2
- We cannot escape the conclusion that mind influences function just as function influences mind. It is also virtually axiomatic that continued functional derangement finally ends in organic disease,...
- Mental And Physical Action And Reaction. Part 3
- Yet we must not neglect to mark and to ponder the other side of the question, for, as has been said, as mind influences function, so function influences mind. As an example, it is admitted that ...
- Mental And Physical Action And Reaction. Part 4
- A diseased body is the product of a process development that began with its birth, for every symptom in its finality is cumulative. The colds and fevers of infancy and adolescence, the causes of ...
- Chapter XX. Death In The Fast
- A Theory Of Death: Eleven Cases Of Death In The Fast: Summary Of Post Mortem Findings No fully satisfactory definition in explanation of what is called death in the ...
- Death In The Fast. Part 2
- In view of the defects exhibited, it is certain that malnutrition occurring in the developing period of life, coupled perhaps with the baneful effects of drugs administered in the attempt to ...
- Death In The Fast. Part 3
- It is perhaps unnecessary to emphasize the truth that, in the physical distress suffered by this woman, medicine was unable to grant her relief. In fact, the time when she was most free from ...
- Death In The Fast. Part 4
- The compelling cause that led to the second fast lay in the organic condition, later discovered, that had progressed to the point that the digestive function became inoperative. Morbid ...
- Death In The Fast. Part 5
- As has been stated, surgical intervention is at times essential in order to correct accidental or congenital structural defect in tissue, and here was a case in which such intervention might have ...
- Death In The Fast. Part 6
- The autopsy disclosed the lungs completely filled with an exudation of serous fluid, a condition that was the immediate cause of death. The surface of the body for several weeks had been ...
- Death In The Fast. Part 7
- The results displayed in the post mortem findings cited, and the comparisons made in the statement that follows, are tangible assets in the claim that, in the absence of defects in the organs of ...
- Chapter XXI. Natural Therapy And The Fast
- Osteopathy And Chiropractic: The Tendency Of Osteopathy To Revert To Medicine: The Broad Basis Of Natural Therapy As elsewhere expressed the fast in itself is ...
- Natural Therapy And The Fast. Continued
- On the other hand it is refreshing to discover in editorial comment the following: Some say, if the science of osteopathy is developed and practiced, what is the difference whether we do it ...
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