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Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13755, 21 June 1913, Page 8

Mr. Upton Sinclair, tho novelist, recommends a fortnight's complete fast as a euro for most of the minor ailrnonts of life, such as colds and hoadachos. Dr. Plot, in,his "History of Staffordshire," mentions the case of a girl, "very piously disposed, of tho Church of England, and therefore the less likely to put a trick upon the world," who subsisted and remained healthy for years on a daily ration of a piece of bread about the size of half-a-crown and a spoonful of water or milk. In 1762, too, Ann Walsh, of Harrogate, suddenly lost her appetite, and lived on a third of a pint of wine and water daily for a year, at the end of which she regained her normal health, and was none the worse for her fast.