CURES BY FASTING
time she had finished the massage, the child said that they felt better. She told us not to bother about his heart or anything else in the line of symptoms, but to stop feeding him, to give him daily baths and manipulation—and to watch nature do the rest.
"The pain kept up at intervals, intervals which grew steadily longer, however, for two days, then ceased entirely. Before the end of the week, the patient was able to be taken down town on the street car for his osteopathic treatment. His fast lasted twelve days.
"Later in the summer he had a recurrence of an old eye trouble, one resulting from an impure condition of the blood. He had been treated the summer before for this trouble, which had lasted several months. This time we began another fast, which continued for twenty-two days. At its end he stripped the bandage off his eyes one evening and looked at us and we knew that the thing was conquered. During a few of the twenty-two days he had a little orange juice, and at all times he had all the water that he desired. A daily bath and rub were given, and a copious enema each morning and evening.
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