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skeleton condition is reached, and there is nothing more for the brain to absorb. The brain must be sustained when there is no other food it draws its nourishment from the body itself. The sick man loses in weight by just this process and it is the intention of nature that he should do so. I am not speaking of the sick man who has hunger, you understand, but of the severeiy sick one who has none. Nature desires his brain to live on its stored-up resources for a few days; she wants to economize power. And if you feed him he generally keeps right on losing weight; and the more you feed the faster he loses which is proof positive that he does not assimilate food. If he did., how could he lose weight? He lies still, and is not destroying any tissue; if he assimilated food he could not fail to gain in weight. And, I repeat, the patient who is fed generally loses weight and strength faster than the one who eats nothing at all proving that the disposition of the food is a tax on his energy. It would be as logical, and as scientific, to set the sick man chopping wood as to feed him; working his stomach is as bad for him as working his arms would be.
Even when the sickness is chronic, and there is some appetite, the greatest care should be used not to overeat. Where little or no exercise is taken, the amount of food required is very small indeed, and there is nothing to gain and everything to lose by
