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  1. NLM Digital Collections - The new dietetics : a guide to scientific feeding in health and disease 
    Publication: Battle Creek, Michigan : The Modern Medicine Publishing Co., 1923
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/33221700R
    ... was at one time a believer in the fasting theory and himself tried the experiment of fasting. At the end of two weeks he found ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army (Series 4, ... 
    Publication: Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1936-1948
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/8104688X7
    ... of intractable heart disease by colonic lavage and fasting, with a theory about the causation. Med. Press & Circ, Lond 1939, ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - Primitive culture: researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, ... 
    Publication: Boston : Estes & Lauriat, 1874
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/0234617X2
    ... AND CEREMONIES. It is indeed not the complete theory of fasting as a reli- gious rite, but only an ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army. Authors ... 
    Publication: Washington : G.P.O., 1880-1932
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/8104689X45
    ... a physiological study of the curative power of fasting, together with a new theory of the relation of food to human vitality. ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - Our children : their physical and mental development : the great aim of parents should be to .... 
    Publication: Hartford, Conn. : Belknap & Bliss, 1872
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/48630660R
    ... morning. TRITE TRUTHS. Then the idea of walking, fasting, is unsnstained by any theory of utility, while practically, it will be found ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - Diabetes : its cause and permanent cure, from the standpoint of experience and scientific ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Blakiston, 1889
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/66111050R
    ... v. During, Ewald, etc.) advocate a most painful theory of fasting ; and, at variance with the former, not only ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - Everybody's doctor : a new and improved hand-book of hygiene and domestic medicine 
    Publication: New York : Dennis, 1885
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/63570980R
    ... water. He thus not only upset all the theories by fasting forty days ; but also confounded the doc- tors ...
  8. NLM Digital Collections - The use of the body in relation to the mind 
    Publication: New York : Harper, 1847
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/61331590R
    ... at once ? When these questions are answered 256 FASTING. in consistence with the dual theory of mind, then we have others to put. A fact recorded in Captain Franklin's narrative will easily conduct us back to our observations on fasting. It appears that the captain and his party ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - The use of the body in relation to the mind 
    Publication: New York : Harper & Bros., 1859
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/61331600R
    ... at once ? When these questions are answered Xoi) FASTING. in consistence with the dual theory of mind, then we have others to put. A fact recorded in Captain Franklin's narrative will easily conduct us back to our observations on fasting. It appears that the captain and his party ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - Bodily changes in pain, hunger, fear and rage : an account of recent researches into the ... 
    Publication: New York ; London : D. Appleton and Company, 1915
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/00620620R
    ... show that after the first few days of fasting the hunger feel-, ings may wholly cease. On the theory that hunger is a manifestation of bodily need, ... adequate, let us examine the state of the fasting stomach to see whether, ... would sustain the theory that hunger has a local outlying source. Hunger ...
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