The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-16

New York Herald.
DR.. Robert A. Gum introduced DR.. Tan
nor, in Booths thratre last evening. The
house was not half filed. DR.. Tanner began
his lecture by instancing the historical and
other f SITS since the time of Noses and Elijah,
uad then said that his fast of forty days was
undertaken to silence those physicians who
had set up the cry OF "fraud" whenever they
had spoken of modern cases of fasting and to
yindnate himself whom they had denounced
as pretender. In his early practice of
medicine he discovered in fasting cure for
many disesses-for example, dyspepsia and
inflammation Of the stomach, and other
diseases. lie tasted for forty-tWo days i'll
Minneapolis in 1877, but the medical faculty
denied that he had done SO. A case of long
fasting-that of Mollie Fancher, of Brooklyn
having been reported, DR.. William A.
hammond, Of this city, had declared 1t a
fraud, md challenged any person to abstain
from food for forty days, and this WAS DR..
Tanners opportunity to vindicate himself
D. Tanner quoted copiousy from the cor
respondehce that passed between himself
and DR.. Hammond prior To the fast and,
alter scoring Dr. Hammond roundly, gave
nis hearers DR.. Marion Sims opinion of the
lat. Next the speaker sand III his forty
dals' abstinence from food had upset the
tncWirs Of tue schools aLd proved that the
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| faith in this power that carried him through
the forty days. lie had learned to rely upon
fasting to restore the vital equilibrium with
out the use of drugs. Americans, he inisted,
swallow too many decentralization
taken to cure dyspepsia, which is induced by
overeating that produce the very
diseases they are said to destroy.
| Paying his respects to the CIRCULARS, 4"
among whom he found many fools, Dir.
Tanner said he WAS thankful that he no
longer wore the shackes of 1.-The code" for
physicians, he continued, "are born, not made
within college walls, and only educated fools
ask for special legislation" Here the speaker
hoped that there might be no legislation to
fetter the practice OF medicine in New York.
After II passing glance ut DR.. Frank Ham
iIton's averment that the fact had proved
nothing DR.. Tanner set # rth in his epitome
of what had been proved, namely: that man
can exist longer than fourteen DAYS without
food; that the stomach will readily resume
its functions after long abstinence from food.
and that the animal in our nature can be sub
ordinated to the mental. DR.. Tanner quoted
at length from the books, and then said that
the fast will necessltste restuity of phis-
! iology.
Let well fed person." the doctor con-
tinued, sit down in utter inactivity, and he
will become Il mass of purifying organisms
and die of blood poisoning. Activity is
necessary to throw OF the ettete material of
the body You can live on quarter of the
food you take, and you will be all the better
for your temperance in eating. The extra
effort to digest the surplus food you eat is a
cause Of indigestion"
Blasting is eminently the specific for cur.
ing dyspepsia and rheumatism, both acute
and chronic. Rheumatism comes of blood
poisonage. The blood becomes acid through
II arrangement of the digestive organs, and
all food taLen into the stomach ntensifes the
scdity of the blood. Ten days of fasting
may eliminate the poison from the bodv.b
The doctor dwelt upon the value of pure
air rs life sustainer, saying that his riding in
Centr. park and on Riverside drive when the
air Vas charged with electricity buoyed him
up and aided him materially in continuing
his fast until the expiration of the furtietb
day. Then he opitomized the forces that
sustain life as-tirst, the intelligent govern
ing principle, which he styles the soul;
second, heat, found in food, tie fuel for the
body; third, electricity, and fourth, animal
magnetism. Life" DR.. Tanner continued,
"can be maintained longer without food than
without either of the other forces"