VIRTTES OF FASTING.
“We, of the profession, are charged to do something; preferably something mysiorioiis or heroic. An operation, an X-ray examination, a cystoscopy, a ■ igmohhwcopy —certainly )>■■:. a policy of 'wait and see’ what Nature can do for herself without the meddlesome hand of man—never. And yet lasting is the simplest and safest of-all remedial men uses. It is Nature’s way. During the first few days, when the expectant stomach, accustomed to stimulation. is made to .suffer the sorrows of delerretl hope, it may he difficult to discern any blue in the sky. 1 Nevertheless. by mousing the fighting instinct latent in most people, even the gloom sf these few days may he lightened by I no sure prospect of ultimate victory; and with these days behind him the patient is impelled to wonder why he ever oafs anything.”—T)r Leonard Williams in an address reported in the “Lancet.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1927, Page 4
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148VIRTTES OF FASTING. Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1927, Page 4
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