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 alone for the last few days before entering the fast.

In the ordinary patient the omission of breakfast, as suggested above, causes slight disturbances, such as dizziness, headache, or stomach pains. These are the results of habitchange. Later they disappear usually within three or four days and there are ordinarily no unpleasant symptoms when the other meals are omitted. In the no-breakfast period, elimination of digestive toxins begins to gain over their formation, and, as the patient gradually diminishes ingestion, the fact that the body is undergoing a cleansing process becomes most evident from the daily discharges in the enemata, and from the odor that emanates from the skin and the breath. These results make it apparent that years of overburdened digestive functions and of consequent imperfect nutrition have loaded the tissues with toxins, and that a complete cleansing of the system, with rest for the organs of digestion and a rearrangement in nature and manner of food supply, is necessary for regaining a physical balance. A fresh foundation must be constructed as the old is removed, and a change in internal condition must be effected by destroying the