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 deadliest foe to nature and her methods of cure is called to aid in offsetting the work already accomplished. Medicine completes in these circumstances what food began, and the chances are that death will ensue. No defense of the fast can be made, and it is visited with wide-spread and emphatic condemnation, whereas, were the facts known for their real worth, the conditions arising therefrom would be recognized as natural in origin, and as warnings that prodigious and successful efforts towards cure were at work.

To break the fast at a wrong time is even worse than to break it upon erroneous diet. The point of greatest import here to be observed is the care that should be given and the confidence that should be engendered lest fear step in and with it food and drugs. In the administration of copious enemata, duplicated and reduplicated, for the purpose of the immediate removal of disturbing elements lies the remedy for the eradication of alarming signs.

The fast in ordinary cases should be broken by the ingestion of the juices of ripe fruit, and of broths prepared from vegetables. The juices of perfectly ripened fruit are most easily changed in mouth and