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 of the excess and most of it is excess fills the alimentary tract with decomposing rubbish, and the system is again in the developing process of disease. A diet including ordinary quantities of milk succeeds at any time in depositing adipose tissue and in creating increased bilious flow. At the very best the milk of the cow is intended only as food for the calf.

When, after the fast, digestive power reasserts itself, the enemata are discontinued daily, but they should be administered without question at least twice weekly in health. That natural movements of the bowels are dependent upon perfect digestion is but slightly qualified by the statement that muscular tone is a necessary condition in the intestinal walls. For the attainment of this state, and for the rebuilding of general muscular quality, a system of judicious exercise is recommended and insisted upon when the fast is broken and thereafter. This, like diet, must be entered upon in gradual manner and is increased and extended in proportion as the body shows progressive capability.

The process involved in breaking the fast demands extreme caution and care. At the end of the period of abstinence and with the