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 certainty where natural law is permitted its course.

Any symptom of disease in the body is evidence of poison circulating in the blood and deposited in the tissues. The conventional medical method of attack invariably aims at the suppression of the symptom rather than at the removal of its cause.

Hunger and disease cannot exist simultaneously in the human frame, and natural methods of cure take this fact into consideration, assuming first, the unity of disease, and second, the means indicated by nature for restoration of health. When hunger is absent, food is not required, and all animate creation, save man, obeys the primal law of abstinence when the physical scale no longer balances. Recognizing that disease arises from a single source, the method of the fast recognizes as well a unity of cure—rest for organs overworked and abused, and prompt removal by natural mechanical aids of filth productive of substances noxious to health.

To revert to the symptoms of disease—the function of digestion is generally regarded as an extensive and complicated process, and it is so closely related to the functions of other parts of the body that it is difficult to