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 thickened walls barely three ounces of liquid.

The conditions recited were not the results of a fast of thirty-eight days, but were those of disease and subsequent arrested development in early life. While there may have been a lack of general physical growth in the individual, some paralyzing agent introduced from without was responsible for the marked deformity found in the intestines.

In view of the undeveloped and mechanically inadequate state of the digestive tract, it is interesting to record that the sexual organs of this man were those of a boy. He was under height and boyish in appearance as well. Nervous shock presumably received through drugs administered in infancy caused functional paralysis and arrested growth of the digestive organs, and general development suffered in consequence.

CASE 8, that of a young man of 22, suffered for the greater part of his life from acute indigestion attended with distressing symptoms of an apoplectic kind. From the beginning of the fast the enemas brought away merely colored water, but general relief was felt until the twentieth day of abstinence. Then a profuse hemorrhage