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 "At the time of writing, two years from the date of the last fast, there has been no recurrence of either the throat trouble, rheumatism, or eye trouble, and a regular physician, a friend of the family, who examined the boy a few months ago, pronounced his heart perfect."

The next and last case is that of a cancer of the right eyelid of twelve years standing in a man 62 years old. The patient had been twice operated upon without success, and the cancer made its third appearance in most virulent form. A consultation with a medical specialist resulted in renewed recommendation of the knife to which the patient refused to submit. He began preparation for a fast which lasted forty-five days, and at the expiration of this period all that remained of the suppurating sore was a reddish scar of its former seat. Four years later his personal report of the case shows no symptom of recurrence upon the eyelid or elsewhere, and general health superb. The eradication of this symptom of extreme blood impurity by means of the fast fixes the value of the treatment in supposedly incurable forms of disease. It bears out completely the contention that disease is a unity,