The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure

Edward Hooker Dewey

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure, by Edward Hooker Dewey This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure Author: Edward Hooker Dewey Release Date: November 2, 2008 [EBook #27128] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NO BREAKFAST *** Produced by Susan Skinner, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) Transcriber's Note: The following words were spelled/hyphenated inconsistently in the original text and have not been changed: over-eating, overeating; centre, center; Cowan, Cowen; Suci, Succi. DR. DEWEY'S BOOKS. The True Science of Living; or, The New Gospel of Health. $2.25, sent postpaid. "Dr. Dewey's logic seems unanswerable."—Alexander Haig, M.A., M.D. Oxon., F.R.C.P., London, Eng. author of "Uric Acid as a Factor in the Causation of Disease," "Diet and Food." "I am glad to find myself in general accord with the views of Dr. Dewey."—A. Rabagliati, M.A., F.R.C.P., Edinburgh, Scotland, author of "Air, Food, and Exercises." "Dr. Dewey has written an epoch-making book."—Emmett Densmore, M.D., New York. "'The True Science of Living,' in its adaptation to the needs of humanity, ranks, in my estimation, with the writing of the Egyptian prince, the Jewish law-giver, the inspired Moses."—Amos R. Collins, M.D., Westerly, R. I. "To live according to the teaching of either of these books would soon make a new race."—J. W. Dill, M.D., D.D. "I have just finished 'The True Science of Living,' and would recommend every person to read it and follow its direction."—D. M. 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"The last line of 'A New Era for Women' has been read, and I wish, with all my heart and soul, that every woman in the world could read Dr. Dewey's words with that burning conviction which is mine."—Alice McClellan Birney , President of Woman's Congress. "Taken altogether, 'The New Era for Women' will be found worthy of a place in every household, and should be read by every woman in the world."—Chester County Times. "Plain, common sense, devoid of puzzling, technical terms. Every woman who cares for ideal health should purchase this book, and help to inaugurate the 'new era' for her sex."—The Search Light. Chronic Alcoholism. Price, 50 cents. THE NO-BREAKFAST PLAN AND THE FASTING-CURE. BY EDWARD HOOKER DEWEY, M. D. MEADVILLE, PA., U. S. A.: PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR. 1900. C OPYRIGHT, 1900, BY EDWARD HOOKER DEWEY. R EGISTERED AT STATIONERS' H ALL, LONDON, ENGLAND. All Rights Reserved. TO GEORGE S. KEITH, M.D., LL.D., F.R.C.P.E., SCOTLAND, A. RABAGLIATI, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P., EDINBURGH, AND ALEXANDER HAIG, M.A., M.D., OXON., F.R.C.P., LONDON, ENGLAND, WHO HAVE COMMENDED THE WRITINGS OF THE AUTHOR IN THEIR OWN PUBLISHED WORKS, THIS BOOK IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED. {7} PREFACE. This volume is a history, or a story, of an evolution in the professional care of the sick. It begins in inexperience and in a haze of medical superstition, and ends with a faith that Nature is the all in all in the cure of disease. The hygiene unfolded is both original and revolutionary: its practicality is of the largest, and its physiology beyond any possible question. The reader is assured in advance that every line of this volume has been written with conviction at white heat, that enforced food in sickness and the drug that corrodes are professional barbarisms unworthy of the times in which we live. E. H. DEWEY. MEADVILLE, PA., U. S. A., November, 1900. {9} CONTENTS. THE NO-BREAKFAST PLAN. PAGE I. Introduction—Army experiences in the Civil War—Early years in general practice—Difficulties encountered—Medicinal treatment found wanting as a means to superior professional success II. A case of typhoid fever that revolutionized the Author's faith and practice—A cure without drugs, without food—Resulting studies of Nature in disease—Illustrative cases—A crucial experience in a case of diphtheria in the Author's family III. A study of the brain from a new point of view—Some new physiology evolved illustrated by severe cases of acute disease IV. The error of enforced food in cases of severe injuries and diseases illustrated by several striking examples V. An apostrophe to physicians VI. The origin of the No-breakfast Plan—Personal experience of the Author as a dyspeptic—His first experience without a breakfast —Physiological questions considered—A new theory of the origin and development of disease and its cure—The spread of the No-breakfast Plan—Interesting cases VII. Digestive conditions—Taste relish—Hunger relish—The moral science involved in digestion as a new study—Cheer as a digestive power—Its contagiousness—The need of higher life in the home as a matter of better health—Cheer as a duty VIII. The No-breakfast Plan among farmers and other laborers—A series of voluntary letters to an eminent divine, and the writer put down as a 81 56 {10} 13 26 34 42 60 crank—The origin of the Author's first book—How the eminent Rev. Dr. George N. Pentecost was secured to write the introduction—His nobreakfast experience—The publisher converts a prominent editor —The case of Rev. W. E. Rambo, a returned missionary—The publishers' missionary work among missionaries—The utility of the morning fast—Its unquestionable physiology—Why the hardest labor is more easily performed and for more hours without a breakfast IX. The utility of slow eating and thorough mastication unusually illustrated by Mr. Horace Fletcher, the author—What should we eat? —The use of fruit from a physiological standpoint X. Landscape-gardening upon the human face—A pen-picture —Unrecognized suicide—Absurdity of the use of drugs to cure diseases—A case of blood-letting—Mission of homœopathy —Predigested foods 85 105 110 {11} THE FASTING-CURE. XI. The forty-two day fast of Mr. W. W. C. Cowen, of Warrensburg, Ill., and its successful end—Press account—The twenty-eight day fast of Mr. Milton Rathbun, of New York, and its successful end—Press account—A 117 second fast of Mr. Milton Rathbun, of thirty-five days, in the interest of science, and its successful end—Press account—Adverse comments of Dr. George N. Shrady, an eminent New York physician XII. The remarkable fast of forty-five days of Miss Estella Kuenzel, of Philadelphia, resulting in a complete cure of a case of melancholia —Press accounts—A still more remarkable fast, of fifty days, of Mr. Leonard Thress, of Philadelphia, resulting in a complete cure of a bad 136 case of general dropsy—Press accounts—General dropsy in a woman of seventy-six relieved by a fifteen-day fast, with the cure permanent—Rev. Dalrymple's fast of thirty-nine and one-half days without interruption of pastoral duties XIII. Insanity—A study from a new point of view—Its radical cure deemed probable in most cases by protracted fasts—Feeding the insane as practised in the hospitals sharply criticised—Some direct words to physicians in charge XIV. The evolution of obesity, and its easy relief by fasting—Overweight prevented by a limitation of the daily food and without lessening any of the powers or energies—The evolution and prevention of apoplexy XV. 177 {12} 157 Chronic alcoholism—The evolution of the drunkard—His complete, easy, rational cure by fasting—No case so grave as to be beyond cure by this means—Asthma; Its cure through dietary means—A railroad tragedy —The need of railroad men to save their brains from needless waste of energy in their stomachs—An illustrative case—Some of the Author's 183 troubles from the ignorance of the people—The death of Mrs. Myers, of Philadelphia, on the thirty-fifth day of her fast—Adverse press accounts and comments—Adverse comments of Prof. H. C. Wood, M. D., L. L. D., on fasting and fasters XVI. A successful sixty-day fast under the Author's care—More about predigested foods—Bathing from a physiological standpoint—The error of drinking water without thirst—Some earnest words to the mothers of 199 this land—What the No-breakfast Plan means for them and their children —Concluding words ILLUSTRATIONS. PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR R EV. GEORGE SHERMAN R ICHARDS MRS. E. A. QUIGGLE MR. MILTON R ATHBUN SHORTLY AFTER HIS FAST MISS E. F. KUENZEL, FORTY-FIRST D AY OF FAST MR. LEONARD THRESS, FIFTIETH D AY OF FAST MISS E. W. A. WESTING , FORTIETH D AY OF FAST Frontispiece. 54 94 104 132 146 152 154 {13} MRS. A. M. LICHTENHAHN, THIRTY-SIXTH D AY WITHOUT FOOD Opposite p. " " " " " " THE NO-BREAKFAST PLAN. I. A hygiene that claims to be new and of the greatest practicality, and certainly revolutionary in its application, would seem to require something of its origin and development to excite the interest of the intelligent reader. Methods in health culture are about as numerous as the individuals who find some method necessary for the health: taking something, doing something