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 extreme form it would seem to indicate approaching dissolution.

At an early stage in the fast partial deafness with humming in the ears is apt to occur. When this happens, careful and constant syringing of the outer ear with warm water discloses an excessive quantity of wax, after the removal of which, the annoying symptoms vanish. The presence of this secretion in amount above normal indicates the extreme of elimination to which the body lends itself while digestion is suspended. Cases, which, before the fast, have suffered from semi-deafness, find the symptom much aggravated until mechanical removal of the clogging mass of wax is accomplished. Every avenue of escape is utilized by nature in the process of elimination in progress during the fast, and the ears perform their part in company with the eyes, the nose, the mouth, and the eliminative organs themselves.

At the end of a fast remarkable evidences of complete renewal of the old body are displayed. The hair falls profusely; tartar deposits upon the teeth are shed ; diseased spots in dental substance are sloughed; and extreme forms of pyorrhea, those affecting the