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on in excruciating torments while her enfeebled system tries to rid itself of the poisonous accumulating filth.
Another neighbor of mine, also an aged woman, passed out the other day. This was a similar case. She, also, was "a great sufferer." For weeks before she died her continuous groans and screams were heard by the neighbors; she ate three or four meals during the day, and was also fed at four o'clock in the morning. She was a heavy woman; she could have lived through the entire period of sickness without food and had she done so she would have lost less in weight, for her system would have been spared the dreadful labor of eliminating unused food; and not only would she have lost less flesh but she would have had a painless illness, and an easy death. Most of the agonies of all kinds of sickness are due to feeding.
Five years ago I was asked to advise a young man who was in the last stage of tuberculosis, with the end very near at hand. Surrounded by loving friends, who, unable to think of any other way to show their sympathy, were continually forcing food upon him, he was coughing his life away, and suffering severely in the struggle of his feeble body to eliminate the filth. I said to him: "My boy, if you want to spend your remaining days in peace and comfort, do not eat except when you are decidedly and unmistakably hungry," and I gave his family a lecture on the difference
