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T H E N UTR ITI ON O F MA N . I llustrated . By ELI E M ETC H N I ! O FF. T H E PR OLO NGA TI O N O F LIFE ! O r r m rsr l c ' ' S r u mes. E i e b P . C H A L M ER S Mtr c u u n d t d y . D . S C . F . R . S 12 . 6d . et . , . s n T H E N A TU R E O F MA N S r u o msm O n ums. ' I m p E i b P . C H A L M R R S T C P noso m . d ted y M I T C H EL L D . Sc . F . R .S . I l r e . 63 . e . l ust at d n t By O TTO WEI N I N GER . N T R 10s. et. SEX A D C H A RA C E . n 8 7 G. T . WR EN C H . R A MM R O LIFE 63 . et . T H E G A F . n TH ER H G I C ! By LU . UL , T H E EFFIC I ENT LIFE 33 . 6d. e . n t ‘ I R E R IGGE .D C u l b. B 5. S U S F . M A M . y ! ! . a 6s. M ED I C I N E A N D T H E PU BLI C . net flzJ -W ‘ H E F A ST I N G C U R U PT O N SI N C L A I R A UTH O R or T E UN L H J G E, ET C . BEBN A BR MACF ADD EN I N C OR D I A L A PPR EC I A T I O N OF H I S P ER SON A L I TY A N D TEA C H I N GS C ON T EN T S PR EF A C E PER FEC T H EA L TH A L etter to the N ew Y or k T i mes SOME N or a s on F A STI N G F astin g an d the D octor s T HE H u mon s or F A ST I N G A SY MPO S I U M on F A STI N G D ea th du r in g the F ast F astin g an d the Min d D iet a fter the F ast T H E U SE or MEA T A PPEN D I X Some L etter s f r om F aster s T he F r u it an d N u t D iet T he R ader C ase ' H or ace F l etcher s F a st PR EF A C E N the C osmopol i ta n Ma ga zi n e for 1910 May, , and in the C on tempor a r y R evi ew L ( ondon) for April , 1910, I published an article dealing with my experiences in fasting . I have written a great many magazine articles , but never one which attracted so much attention as this . The first day the - magazine was on the news stands , I received a telegram from a man in Washington who had begun to fast and wanted some advice ; and there after I received ten or twenty letters a day from people who had questions to ask or experiences to narrate . At i h the date of. w r ting a year a s o passed , and the flo d has not yet C osmo stopped . The editors of the pol i ta n also tell me that they have never received so many lettersabout B PREF ACE an article in their experience . Still more significant was the number of reports which began to appear in the news column s of papers all over the country , telling of people who were fasting . From various sources I have received about fifty such clippings , and few but reported benefit to the faster . As a consequence of this interest, I was asked by the C osmopol i ta n to write another article, which appeared in the 1 issue of February, 911 . The present volume is made up from these two articles , with the addition of some notes and comments , and some portions of articles contributed to the P hysi cal u l tu r C e magazine, of the editorial sta ff of which I am a member . It was my intention at first to work this matter into a connected whole, bu t upon t e reading the articles I decided that it would be better to publish them as they PREF ACE stood . The journalistic style has its advanta ges ; and repetitions may per haps be pardoned in the case of a topic which is so new to almost everyone . There is one other matter to be r e u b ferred to . Several years ago I p l i shed a book entitled Good Health, written in collaboration with a friend . I could not express my own views fully in that book, and on cert ain points where I diff ered with my collaborator, ff I have come since to di er still more . The book contains a great deal of use ful information ; but later experience has convinced me that its views on the all - important subject of diet are erroneous . My present Opinions I have given in this book . I am not saying this to apologize for an i n con sistency, but to record a growth . In those days I believed something, be cause other people told me ; tod ay I PREF ACE know something el se, because I have tried it upon myself . My object in publishing this book is - two fold ! first, to have something to which I can refer people, so that I will n ot have to answer half a dozen fast ing letters every day f or the rest of my life ; and second , in the hope of attracting sufficient attention to the subject to interest some scientific men in making a real investigation of it . To day we kn ow certain facts about what is called autointoxication we know them because Metchnikoff, Pawlow and others have made a thorough - going inquiry into the sub jcet . I believe that the subject of fasting is one of just as great import ance . I have stated fa cts in this book about myself ; and I have quoted many letters which are genuine and beyond dispute . The cures which they record PREF ACE are altogether without precedent, I l think . The reader wi l find in the a course of the book (page 102), tabula tion of the results of 277cases of fast ing . In this number of desperate h cases , there were only about alf a dozen definite and unexplained failures reported . Surely it cannot be that medical men and scientists will continue for much longer to close their eyes to facts of such vital significance as this . I do not pretend to be the discoverer T h of the fasting cure . e subject was discussed by Dr . E . H . Dewey in books which were published thirty or forty years ago . For the reader who cares to investigate further, I mention the following books , which I have read r om with interest and profit .