Chronic alcoholism--The evolution of the drunkard--His complete, easy, rational cure by fasting--No case so grave as to be beyond cure by this means--Asthma; Its cure through dietary means--A railroad tragedy--The need of railroad men to save their brains from needless waste of energy in their stomachs--An illustrative case--Some of the Author's troubles from the ignorance of the people--The death of Mrs. Myers, of Philadelphia, on the thirty-fifth day of her fast--Adverse press accounts and comments--Adverse comments of Prof. H. C. Wood, M. D., L. L. D., on fasting and fasters 183 XVI. A successful sixty-day fast under the Author's care--More about predigested foods--Bathing from a physiological standpoint--The error of drinking water without thirst--Some earnest words to the mothers of this land--What the No-breakfast Plan means for them and their children--Concluding words 199 ILLUSTRATIONS. PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR _Frontispiece._ MRS. A. M. LICHTENHAHN, THIRTY-SIXTH DAY WITHOUT FOOD Opposite p. 54 REV. GEORGE SHERMAN RICHARDS " 94 MRS. E. A. QUIGGLE " 104 MR. MILTON RATHBUN SHORTLY AFTER HIS FAST " 132 MISS E. F. KUENZEL, FORTY-FIRST DAY OF FAST " 146 MR. LEONARD THRESS, FIFTIETH DAY OF FAST " 152 MISS E. W. A. WESTING, FORTIETH DAY OF FAST " 154 THE NO-BREAKFAST PLAN. I. A hygiene that claims to be new and of the greatest practicality, and certainly revolutionary in its application, would seem to require something of its origin and development to excite the interest of the intelligent reader. Methods in health culture are about as numerous as the individuals who find some method necessary for the health: taking something, doing something for the health is the burden of lives almost innumerable. Very few people are so well that some improvement is not desirable.