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 products. The possibility always exists that these organs may prove unequal to their work, and this possibility becomes a certainty, with death as the outcome, in two situations one, when the organs themselves are structurally defective, and the other, when their powers are stimulated through food or through drugs, or both, to the point of exhaustion. Only one of these conditions, that of organic defect presents itself in treating disease by means of the fast. Both are met in the therapeutics of medicine.

The results displayed in the post mortem findings cited, and the comparisons made in the statement that follows, are tangible assets in the claim that, in the absence of defects in the organs of the body, abstinence from food, with other natural health-giving and health-preserving accompaniments, is the unfailing remedy for the cure of functional ills. The physician and the patient from the outset of the treatment possess the assurance of recovery; and confidence that rests on infallible natural law is in itself of the greatest assistance in accomplishing results.