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[Illustration: (signed) E. H. Dewey.]

THE

NO-BREAKFAST PLAN

AND

THE FASTING-CURE.

BY

EDWARD HOOKER DEWEY, M. D.

MEADVILLE, PA., U. S. A.:
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR.
1900.

COPYRIGHT, 1900,
BY EDWARD HOOKER DEWEY.

REGISTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL, LONDON, ENGLAND.

_All Rights Reserved._

TO

GEORGE S. KEITH, M.D., LL.D., F.R.C.P.E., SCOTLAND,

A. RABAGLIATI, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P., EDINBURGH,

AND

ALEXANDER HAIG, M.A., M.D., OXON., F.R.C.P., LONDON, ENGLAND,

WHO HAVE COMMENDED THE WRITINGS OF THE AUTHOR IN THEIR
OWN PUBLISHED WORKS,

THIS BOOK IS

GRATEFULLY DEDICATED.

PREFACE.

This volume is a history, or a story, of an evolution in the
professional care of the sick. It begins in inexperience and in a haze
of medical superstition, and ends with a faith that Nature is the all in
all in the cure of disease. The hygiene unfolded is both original and
revolutionary: its practicality is of the largest, and its physiology
beyond any possible question. The reader is assured in advance that
every line of this volume has been written with conviction at white
heat, that enforced food in sickness and the drug that corrodes are
professional barbarisms unworthy of the times in which we live.

E. H. DEWEY.

MEADVILLE, PA., U. S. A.,
_November, 1900_.

CONTENTS.

THE NO-BREAKFAST PLAN.

I.

PAGE

Introduction--Army experiences in the Civil War--Early years in
general practice--Diffic