The natural cure of consumption, constipation, Bright's disease, neuralgia, rheumatism, colds (fevers) etc. : how sickness originates, and how to prevent it a health manual for the people / by C.E. Page.

  • Page, C. E. (Charles Edward), 1840-
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[1883], ©1883
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    as I do the continuous efforts made every day to in. duce him to eat. When he began the fast he had been living on the same diet as the rest of the pa- tients. He came to me and said, seemingly in a per- fectly rational manner, that he was anxious to be cured, and that he thought abstinence from food for a time might benefit him. Mr. said he did not intend to carry his experiment to extremes, but that the moment he felt it would be proper for him to break the fast he would do so. On the second day - again refused to eat, and did not go out of his room. On the third day he drank a small cupful of water. At the end of the seventh day he had drank about six pints of water, and the natural functions of the body had then ceased. All of the attendants were instructed to use every possible means to induce the man to partake of nourishment, and a man was with him constantly through the day. Could he not have obtained food at night ? was asked. It would have been impossible, replied Mrs. . All the rooms are locked, and none of the patients have access to other parts of the building after sundown. We would have been only too glad had he taken food. About the 20th day he be- gan to get thin and haggard-looking about the face, and seemed to be feeble. He said that his head felt better, and that he did not intend to eat anything as long as he felt so well. On the 35th day he became so weak that he had to go to bed, and remained there until he broke the fast. I had told him that when