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298 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
live on slops, but eat nothing,
and drink water for three
weeks ; taking daily ablutions and injections, and it will
go farther to secure a cure than months of the most
active treatment, when this is neglected. I have seen
this tried, and know its efficacy. When the patient
begins to eat, it should be the smallest quantity of food,
and of the simplest quality ; one say ounce of coarse
bread, and two ounces of fruit a day for the first week :
then two ounces of bread and three of fruit for another
week; then three ounces of bread and five of fruit for
a month. By this time the worst dyspeptic will have
digestion for meals progressively larger, until he reaches
the standard of health, and his whole system will have
undergone the most remarkable changes.
One of the best cures of dyspepsia I ever heard of
was that of Mr. Robinson, of Nantucket, who cured
himself by eating an ounce of dry, coarse, unbolted
wheat bread, at a meal, three times a day, drinking
nothing but water. Sometimes at supper he only eat
half an ounce. He chewed this thoroughly, and per
severed in this course for some months. At. first he
lost flesh, but afterward gained both flesh and strength,
and was soon able to perform the work of a common.
laborer. He was thoroughly cured. I believe the
cure would have been still more rapid
course I have recommended.
had he taken the
The world has one great agent of purification, and
that is water. It is the universal solvent. Entering
largely into the composition of all organic beings, it is by
its agency that all vital processes are performed. It is
the great agent of digestion, nutrition, and excretion.
It is at once the vitalizer and purifier of the world.