THE FASTING TREATMENT.
AUCKLAND, December 6.
The fasting craze has claimed at least one believer in Auckland, the subject being a dropsical patient who has subsisted on limejuioe and water, without food, for VI days up to the present time. The patient undergoing this treatment is a lady, who stated that for the first three days of her fast she suffered a good deal from acute hunger, but since then her self-imposed denial of food has caused her no inconvenience. previous to her fasting *he was practically an invalid, now she is able to undertake housework. The experiment will be watched with interest.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2804, 11 December 1907, Page 34
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103THE FASTING TREATMENT. Otago Witness, Issue 2804, 11 December 1907, Page 34
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