The No-breakfast Plan among farmers and other laborers--A series of voluntary letters to an eminent divine, and the writer put down as a crank--The origin of the Author's first book--How the eminent Rev. Dr. George N. Pentecost was secured to write the introduction--His no-breakfast experience--The publisher converts a prominent editor--The case of Rev. W. E. Rambo, a returned missionary--The publishers' missionary work among missionaries-- The utility of the morning fast--Its unquestionable physiology-- Why the hardest labor is more easily performed and for more hours without a breakfast 85 IX. The utility of slow eating and thorough mastication unusually illustrated by Mr. Horace Fletcher, the author--What should we eat?--The use of fruit from a physiological standpoint 105 X. Landscape-gardening upon the human face--A pen-picture-- Unrecognized suicide--Absurdity of the use of drugs to cure diseases--A case of blood-letting--Mission of homoeopathy-- Predigested foods 110 THE FASTING-CURE. XI. The forty-two day fast of Mr. W. W. C. Cowen, of Warrensburg, Ill., and its successful end--Press account--The twenty-eight day fast of Mr. Milton Rathbun, of New York, and its successful end--Press account--A second fast of Mr. Milton Rathbun, of thirty-five days, in the interest of science, and its successful end--Press account--Adverse comments of Dr. George N. Shrady, an eminent New York physician 117 XII. The remarkable fast of forty-five days of Miss Estella Kuenzel, of Philadelphia, resulting in a complete cure of a case of melancholia--Press accounts--A still more remarkable fast, of fifty days, of Mr. Leonard Thress, of Philadelphia, resulting in a complete cure of a bad case of general dropsy--Press accounts--General dropsy in a woman of seventy-six relieved by a fifteen-day fast, with the cure permanent--Rev. Dalrymple's fast of thirty-nine and one-half days without interruption of pastoral duties 136 XIII. Insanity--A study from a new point of view--Its radical cure deemed probable in most cases by protracted fasts--Feeding the insane as practised in the hospitals sharply criticised--Some direct words to physicians in charge 157 XIV. The evolution of obesity, and its easy relief by fasting-- Overweight prevented by a limitation of the daily food and without lessening any of the powers or energies--The evolution and prevention of apoplexy 177 XV.