The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure

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Edward Hooker Dewey. The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure

The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure

Table of Contents

PREFACE

ILLUSTRATIONS

THE NO-BREAKFAST PLAN

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II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

THE FASTING-CURE

XI. NOTES AND PRESS COMMENTS ON VOLUNTARY FASTS

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FOOTNOTES:

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Edward Hooker Dewey

Published by Good Press, 2019

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With the people the disease is simply an attack, and not the summing up of the results of violated laws going on perhaps from birth. With the people the symptoms are merely evidences of destruction, and not the visible efforts to restore the normal condition. Hence the failures to relieve always raise more or less questioning, among friends in painful concern, as to the ability of the physician to discharge his grave duties.

This unreasoning, unreasonable "blind faith" in remedial means is as strong in the most intelligent as in the most ignorant, and it has ever given me more trouble than the care of the sick. Another serious complication of the sick-room arises from near-by friends who are very certain that their own physicians are better fitted by far for the serious work of prescribing for the sick.

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