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Now, I must warn all that very many persons who adopt the No-breakfast Plan are disappointed, because they have become chronic in the ways of unwitting sin: they are like thin-soiled farms long-cropped without soil culture. Harvests in either case can only come by the study and practice of the laws of nutrition.
Again I must tell you that the No-breakfast Plan, the plan not to eat in time of health until there are a normal need and desire for food, that are only developed after several hours of morning labor, and not to eat at all during acute sickness, is the easiest of all means to maintain health, and to regain it when lost.
"I'm just telling Psyche that this no-breakfast fad is hurting your health, my son. Now do come and eat like you used to. You began to look bad as soon as you left off your breakfast. It's a silly fad, that's what it is. You can't tell me!" The young man stared at his mother until he had mastered her meaning.
Now this man with his family was a recent arrival in this city, and his first intimate acquaintance was one who had been relieved of weekly headaches of a skull-bursting kind through the no-breakfast plan thus the missionary contagion.
Dewey, and that neither himself, his wife, nor any of the servants in his house eat breakfast, and as a result all are remarkably well. His two sons, one of whom was graduated at Harvard in 1896, and a second, who is still at Harvard, practise the no-breakfast system. "Just before beginning his fast Mr. Rathbun ordered a suit of clothes at his tailor's.
Life came at last through the no-breakfast plan. The most remarkable fight for life on the part of Nature against the adverse conditions of drugs, alcoholics, and milk I have ever known was in the following case: A spare woman, of perhaps forty years, came to her bed the victim of habitual bromidia and chloral, invited by severe headaches.
This No-breakfast Plan has been very closely adhered to with all for not less than twelve years, and during this time not one of us has had any acute sickness; and I am not aware that any have diseases of the chronic kind. The accompanying illustration is that of Mrs. E. A. Quiggle, sister of the Author, after twelve years' trial of The No-breakfast Plan.
I gave the matter so much thought and study that I wrote a monograph on the subject with the idea of publishing it, but gave it up to the idea of telling my impressions in "The No-breakfast Plan." There are the same structural changes in the evolution of insanity as in that of catarrh.
The doctor said he was inclined to believe there might be something in the no-breakfast system, as a great many persons eat and drink altogether too much. "Dr. Helmer said he had examined Rathbun on the twenty-fifth day, and had found him in surprisingly good condition." Mr. Rathbun had been on the no-breakfast plan for several years, and he was one of the first to write me after my book came out.
The no-breakfast cure had worked wonders; in three months we were well, simply man and Dog, and he amply justified the telegram he came with. He seemed to be without fear.
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