THE FASTING CURE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 306, 19 May 1913, Page 7

THE FASTING CURE.

EXPERIENCES OF AN AUCKLAND CARPENTER. London, May 14. Fasting as a eure for disease has always been regarded as something of an experiment, and the prominence which was given recently to the proceedings in the criminal charge made against Dr. J Linda Hazzanl, the American woman who treated so many cases in Washington State, for having caused the death of one of her patients, created a lot of interest in the methods adopted by its advocates. Mr. W. G. Greenwood, a carpenter residing in Auckland, is now 28 days out on a fast which he commenced upon the recommendation of a metaphysician, with the object of removing some internal troubles. It is stated that for some years past Mr. Greenwood has been in a chronic state of ill-health, and that although he consulted many doctors, the treatment which he received was without avail. Just before he undertook his fast the metaphysician under whose direction it is being conducted diagnosed his ailments as including a duodenum ulcer, a strain of the ascending colon caused principally by impact matter and general disorder of the stomach. A week was spent in preparing for the fast proper. In the ' first place the patient stopped taking breakfast, and afterwards made a gradual reduction of other ineals till lie was able to cease taking food altogether. During the first 26 days he took water only, but since Saturday last he has in- ( dulged to the extent of a small quantity ' of orange juice daily. 1

Each day Mr. Greenwood walks over a mile to the sanatorium where he is being • treated. He states that he already feels much brighter and stronger, and he is confident that he will derive much benefit from his treatment.

The taking of the orange juice really marks the breaking of the fast, but this is, such a gradual practice that it will be at least a week hence before he resumes taking solid food. ,