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hunger be given to the sick man, so that he can generate vital power from the food, build up his strength and get well?
The appetite is taken away in severe sickness because nature needs all her power for the work of restoring normal conditions, and there is none to spare for the labor of digestion. The digestion of food is work, and hard work; the sick man's brain has not the power for it. So nature says, "Keep out; we are busy inside; when we are ready for food we will let you know." Sick horses never eat; but sick people --- or at least their friends and physicians seldom have horse sense. When the appetite is taken away it is considered a sign that nature requires "light" foods; or that the earth should be ransacked for tempting dainties to create an appetite; whereas, nature simply wants to be let alone. Food given when the tongue is coated and the appetite gone is seldom digested; it decomposes, and the condition within the stomach of the unfortunate one becomes something horrible to think about; a putrid, poisonous mass, the dreadful odor of which can often be distingnished throughout a large apartment.
The person who fasts loses weight, but the loss all falls upon those tissues which can best be spared; and even in death by starvation, the brain and nervous system lose no weight at all.. That is, the brain eats up theother tissues; and death does not come until the
