FASTING AT WANGANUI.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13549, 28 October 1907, Page 7

FASTING AT WANGANUI.

NERVOUS TROUBLE CURED. Some time ago a representative of The Dominion learnt from Mr J. M. Clark of a marvellous recovery through the direct agency of the starvation cure that had been made by his brother, Mr S. B. Clark, of Wanganui, from a very serious illness in the nature of a norvous breakdown. Most readers of newspapers have heard of the starvation cure, arid doubtless a good many have smiled at the curative possibilities 'claimed for tho treatment known to science as the starvation ot rest cure. The circumstances of Mr Clark's cure (according to The Dominion) are briefly as follows : — He was suffering from a general "run-down, and in his weakness his nervous system had become seriously affected — so Seriously that he was advised by his medical men to cease work immediately and travel for a year. This procedure was out of the question with a busy man, such as Mr Clark, and he became wretchedly miserable at the knowledge of his incapacity to take advantage of what seemed the only hope of a cure. Every sick man is ever ready to read of medical treatment of any kind — the patent medicine companies thrive on the weakness — and, in glancing one lucky day at a medical work, he read of the starvation euro. It fascinated him — the more he read of it the better he thought of the idea. Finally he 'decided to test it. He commenced listing on January 17th at 6 p.m., and ho refrained from eating any food until 1 p.m. on February 12th — a period of twenty-five days nineteen hours. It is rumoured in New Plymouth that thq disease of which the Wanganui lady Hoped to cure herself by a forty days' fast was cancer. It is said she is very much better in health since the fast, and that she hopes ultimately to rid herself entirely of tho affliction.