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of a pound of dead pork greater than the kinetic
energy of three live three hundred pound hogs.
Consider next, the numerous cases of protracted
fasts which have been recorded since Dr. Dewey's
books were published.
Leonard Thress, of Philadelphia, fifty-six days, and Miss Estella Kuenzel, forty two days, with a steady gain in strength from the first day, are among the eases recorded by the doctor himself; and some hundreds of others, perfectly authenticated, prove that a person can go from twenty to sixty days without food and can often do so without appreciable loss of strength. I believe it is the accepted dictum of the old physiology that a man will starve to death in ten days. This has been proved to be a mistake, and it is evident that most of the people who have perished of hunger in that limited time died because they thought they had to, and that, property educated, they might have lived from twenty to sixty days longer. In death by starvation the brain and nervous system, which are the power plant, lose no weight; the other tissues disappear until the skeleton condition is reached, and death comes because the brain can get no more raw material with which to repair the heart, lungs, stomach, liver, etc. The organism grows weak and perishes from lack of raw material to replace the daily waste of its vital parts; it dies when the viscera are so attenuated as to be
