People who fast generally become comfortable, so why envy a few men
and women an easy departure when they are no longer able to live, and
why heap undeserved censure on those who are doing their best to ease
the sufferers by means of our most valuable therapeutic measure,
fasting?
There is much prejudice against fasting, but a calm study of the facts
will remove this. Typhoid fever, conventionally treated, often proves
fatal in 15 per cent. or more of the cases and those who survive have
to undergo a long, uncomfortable illness which often leaves them so
weakened and with such degenerated bodies that the end is frequently a
matter of a few months or years. Pneumonia and tuberculosis find a
favorable place to develop and in these cases prove very fatal. On the
other hand, cases of typhoid treated by the fast, and the other hygienic
measures necessary, recover in a short time, there are no evil sequels
and the body is in better condition than it was before the onset of the
disease. I have never seen a fatality in a properly treated case, and
the mortality is conspicuous by its absence. It is the same in curable
chronic diseases. Where feeding and medicating add to the ills, fasting
with proper living afterwards brings health.
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