Page:Linda Hazzard - Fasting for the cure of disease.djvu/304

 of the fetus, and the abandonment of the fast. His opinion was overruled, however, and the result of the case fully justified the stand taken. As the officiating physician at the confinement, five months later, he expressed himself concerning the ease of delivery and the remarkable vitality of the infant, and acknowledged his error in judgment by a complete reversal of his condemnation of the fast.

An analogous case is that of a woman of 27, wife of a practicing physician. She was between three and four months pregnant, and was suffering severe pain in the region of the uterus and in that of the stomach. The former organ was found to be displaced. Nausea and vomiting were constantly distressing the patient when the case was presented and the fast decided upon. A preparatory period of twelve days on liquid diet preceded the latter, which continued for thirty days. No unusual symptoms arose during this time, and constant improvement was noted from the beginning, the sensation of nausea decreasing successively and disappearing about the twentieth day with no return thereafter. Pulse and temperature remained slightly below normal until eating