THE WATER OF LIFE - Thought for Food

there. Nevertheless, I believed, and still believe, that the text I have
quoted, and many others also, bear reference to that vital fluid which is
within our own bodies; and believing it, I acted in accordance with that
belief, to find in the end that it proved to be my physical salvation.
Fortified by my faith in what I thought to be the correct interpretation
of the text, I fasted for forty‐five days on nothing but urine and tap
water‐and this, despite the doctor's assertion that eleven days without
food was the limit to which a human being could go I also rubbed urine
into my body‐a very important factor in the cure, with which I shall deal
in Chapter XVII‐I finally broke my fast on raw beef, and though it gave
me no discomfort beyond a ravenous hunger, I none the less ate
cautiously for a time, and continued to drink my own urine, noticing
that its changes in temperature, quantity, taste, etc., depended almost
entirely on what I ate or drank, and on the amount of exercise I took.
At the end of this treatment I felt and was "an entirely new man." I
weighed 140 lbs., was full of vim, looked about eleven years younger
than I actually was, and had a skin like a young girl's. I was thirty‐six at
the time, and am now over sixty. Yet by dint of drinking every drop of
water that I pass, living on a wellbalanced diet, (*) and never eating
more food per diem than I consider the body requires, I look and feel
much younger than most men of my age, and keep free from those
major and minor ailments to which the body is said to be heir.
(*) See Chapter XVII.
Having now related the essential details of my selfcure and all that
contributed to its continuance, I will merely add that in 1918, being
convinced that knowledge must not be selfishly "hidden under a
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