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 which nature suggests and employs—elimination of the poisonous products of digestive ferment, and rest for organs, that have been functioning under stress. It is thus seen that, not only is a unity to be recognized in the cause of disease, but that there exists an equal unity in natural means of relief and cure.

Here is perceived the peculiar office of the fast—it is the unit cure. As pointed out elsewhere, the lower animals by instinct employ it when ill, and its efficiency in disease, functional and organic, when applied to humankind, is fully substantiated and daily corroborated.

Disease affects every cell in the animal body. The fast in its operation and results equally affects the body as a whole. What matter, if, in attaining the extreme ends of purification, the body is reduced to a minimum of flesh? Organs and frame—work still remain by which and upon which to build a new, purified, and resistive structure for future needs.

The simplest forms in which bodily illness is expressed are the various rashes that appear upon the skin. These result directly from stomach-abuse—from inability of that organ to carry on its work because of