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Source: Macfadden’s Encyclopedia of Physical Culture Source type: book Document type: book chapter Document title: “Fasting as a Curative Measure” [chapter 1] Author(s): Macfadden, Bernarr Edition: Fifth edition Volume number: 3 Publisher: Physical Culture Publishing Company Place of publication: New York, New York Year of publication: 1920 Pagination: 1203-1396 (excerpt below includes only page 1207) |
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| Macfadden, Bernarr. “Fasting as a Curative Measure” [chapter 1]. Macfadden’s Encyclopedia of Physical Culture. 5th ed. Vol. 3. New York: Physical Culture Publishing, 1920: pp. 1203-1396. |
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| William McKinley (medical care: criticism); William McKinley (death, cause of). |
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| William McKinley. |
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From title page: Completely Revised—1920 Edition; Fifth Printing; Approximately
Thirty Thousand Sets, One Hundred Fifty Thousand Volumes.
From title page: Macfadden’s Encyclopedia of Physical Culture: A
Work of Reference, Providing Complete Instructions for the Cure of All
Diseases Through Physcultopathy, with General Information on Natural Methods
of Health-Building and a Description of the Anatomy and Physiology of
the Human Body.
From title page: By Bernarr Macfadden; Assisted by Specialists in the Application of Natural Methods of Healing. |
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Fasting as a Curative Measure [excerpt]
Men who are fleshy should never hesitate for a moment if they are attacked by an acute disease, to take a fast long enough completely to eliminate it. Such persons have enough stored up energy and fuel to run the body for a month or two months without the slightest fear of injury. No matter what their ailment, they cannot possibly be injured by fasting, and there is every assurance that they will be able to rid themselves of the disease. I have referred elsewhere to the case of President McKinley. No sane, unprejudiced man, in the light of the knowledge of fasting which I have here given, can read the bulletins issued by the doctors themselves and not see that the President was simply poisoned by the food that he was urged to eat.