ulties encountered--Medicinal treatment
found wanting as a means to superior professional success 13

II.

A case of typhoid fever that revolutionized the Author's faith
and practice--A cure without drugs, without food--Resulting
studies of Nature in disease--Illustrative cases--A crucial
experience in a case of diphtheria in the Author's family 26

III.

A study of the brain from a new point of view--Some new
physiology evolved illustrated by severe cases of acute disease 34

IV.

The error of enforced food in cases of severe injuries and diseases
illustrated by several striking examples 42

V.

An apostrophe to physicians 56

VI.

The origin of the No-breakfast Plan--Personal experience of the
Author as a dyspeptic--His first experience without a
breakfast--Physiological questions considered--A new theory of
the origin and development of disease and its cure--The spread of
the No-breakfast Plan--Interesting cases 60

VII.

Digestive conditions--Taste relish--Hunger relish--The moral
science involved in digestion as a new study--Cheer as a
digestive power--Its contagiousness--The need of higher life in
the home as a matter of better health--Cheer as a duty 81

VIII.

The No-breakfast Plan among farmers and other laborers--A series
of voluntary letters to an eminent divine, and the writer put
down as a crank--The origin of the Author's first book--How the
eminent Rev. Dr. George N. Pentecost was secured to write the
introduction--His no-breakfast experience--The publisher converts
a prominent editor--The case of Rev. W. E. Rambo, a returned
missionary--The publishers' missionary work among missionaries--
The utility of the morning fast--Its unquestionable physiology--
Why the hardest labor is more easily performed and for more hours
without a breakfast 85

IX.

The utility of slow eating and thorough mastication unusually
illustrated by Mr. Horace Fletcher, the author--What should we
eat?--The use of fruit from a physiological standpoint 105

X.

Landscape-gardening upon the human face--A pen-picture--
Unrecognized suicide--Absurdity of the use of drugs to cure
diseases--A case of blood-letting--Mission of homoeopathy--
Predigested foods