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The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure

Edward Hooker Dewey

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 150 pages

A collection of essays on health reform by an American physician, advocating the 'no breakfast' plan and fasting as a means of restoring the body. Dewey argues that eating less often, and giving digestion rest, can promote wellbeing. It offers a window into nineteenth-century dietary and natural-healing ideas.

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DR. DEWEY'S BOOKS.
The True Science of Living; or, The New Gospel of Health.
$2.25, sent postpaid.
"Dr. Dewey's logic seems unanswerable."—Alexander Haig,
M.A., M.D. Oxon., F.R.C.P., London, Eng. author of "Uric
Acid as a Factor in the Causation of Disease," "Diet and
Food."
"I am glad to find myself in general accord with the views
of Dr. Dewey."—A. Rabagliati, M.A., F.R.C.P., Edinburgh,
Scotland, author of "Air, Food, and Exercises."
"Dr. Dewey has written an epoch-making book."—Emmett
Densmore, M.D., New York.
"'The True Science of Living,' in its adaptation to the
needs of humanity, ranks, in my estimation, with the
writing of the Egyptian prince, the Jewish law-giver, the
inspired Moses."—Amos R. Collins, M.D., Westerly, R. I.
"To live according to the teaching of either of these
books would soon make a new race."—J. W. Dill, M.D., D.D.
"I have just finished 'The True Science of Living,' and
would recommend every person to read it and follow its
direction."—D. M. Sheedy, M.D.
"A book written by a man with a burning conviction, and
bearing an introduction by an eminent preacher who has
tested the treatment recommended in it and found therein a
great reinforcement of intellectual and spiritual power,
which he attributes directly to having followed its
teachings, is sure to have more than a kernel of truth in
it, and, written in a lively, conversational style, will
not be 'heavy' or a bore to those who read it."—The
Independent, New York.
"The book is given in the form of plain lectures; it holds
the interest from the first chapter, and its logical
reasoning cannot be gainsaid."—Chautauquan.

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Contents

  1. THE No-Breakfast Plan AND The Fasting-Cure.
  2. THE NO-BREAKFAST PLAN.
  3. THE FASTING-CURE.

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