Daily Los Angeles herald., 1880-07-29
os Sugelts yerald.
DE. TANNER.

4 Graphic View Of the Faster and bis Sur
soandings Physiological Facts to be
1smsnstrated by the Fast and the Good
Itch may accrue to Medical Sciences.
New York sun. July i7th.1
1T makes me look like ghost"
said DR.. Henry 3. Tanner, in Clar-
cndon Hail, yesterday.
lie referred to the photograph
taken Of him last Tuesday. in one
81 The anterooms on the north side
al The building. The light came
ia through q window, falling only
-, ,nc side Of his face, and tipping
Tia nose with white. There was 80
iistle sunlight that he had to sit q
long time, and that produced a
bur nt-cork effect on the opposite
s,d. OF his face in the picture. A
" te spot In the eye on that side
al ms out of q cavernous black
Zach, The long sitting also made
Ii wrinkles in his firm spare face
deep and harsh.
rae fact is that DR.. Tanner, &C.
to the vote Of several ladies
,guD have visited him frequently,
lias been improving in looks.
Wien the grossness and seDsuality
Of the food-consuming though
stfi.tly temperate man gave place
s,tsr the first few days to the pale
aali transcendental look of proph-
scy /. it was expected that he would
soon assume haggard expression
that would be painful to the OBJ
Instead of that, his face
was gradually overspread with a
hight red glow, such as George
FITS ncis Train points out in the
pa ms OF his hands, and which he
to "vril,n or the blood Of
itn Mortal youth. This color has
gfadually deepened to ruddiness.
when he sits up in his
cnt and draws his feet under him,
" Lille be clasps his knees, he looks
ex remedy patient, but there Is no
,earance of suffering.
.t was because DR.. Tanner was
d satisfied with his photograph
th At. instead of taking drive yes
.eFday In Central Park with his
watchers, he was driven to photo
grsph gallery at Sixth avenue and
4 enty- first street, where, under q
proper skylight, he obtained some
negatives that suit him. He sat
al * times.
The water which he began to
dfink, as often as he wanted to,
last Tuesday, has not been able to
.eplace the whiteness Of the fat
irswn from the tissues, neither has
increased his strength. At first,
AZ er he began TO drink water he
rev heavier, but yesterday morn
inf. he weighed only 1856 pounds, q
loss Of one pound sine Friday even
iag. The weight at that time was
g gafn of four pounds from his low
~ weight during the fast. Yes
tsrday morning when he clutched
ias small dynamUmeter in his
Tight hand the index needle
81 owed that he would have been
able to lift a 15O-pound weight
fsnm the ground. but when he bent
VI . fingers of his left hand over the
snriDg the needle pointed to only
90 pounds. He is yet vigorous in
hia stride, and occasionally in the
record book kept by his watchers ia
found an entry that he has been
joking. All Of those who have
watched with him, as we'll as those
visitors who stay long in Claren.
dnn Hall, get the firm impression
that the faster is thoroughly hon
est.
At noon to-day he will have
tasted tweDty-one days, or one day
more than half of the task he i'm
posed upon himself.
DIR. Hammond said he could
not possibly fast more than fifteen
days." said one of the watchers
yesterday afternoon. HE has now
lasted over five days more than
thlt, and I consider the expert
insnt'a success already, from u eel
gI.ific point of view. DIR. Tanner
has shown that 1t is safe for him to
fQ-t over twenty days and don't
oppose 1t will ordinarily be found
ecessary to have q patient fast
over seven days."
For y week Dean r. A. Gum Of
the United States Medical College
ADD Professor David Wark have
made IL q point that one or the
other should spend the afternoon
wi III the faster, because they have
thought 1t proper to watch him
aud personality.
y De bet tli6k," said Professor
~ ark yesterday, "that the Doc.
io,'s real objects In making this
fsst have been carefully and sue
circtly set forth since it began, as
hs would desire to have them set
forth.
He holds" continued the Pro-
fsssor, speaking slowly in order
that the points he made should be
caI efully noted, "lhat uncleanli-
ness and impuriiy in the body,
lsoin which disease springs, and on
v ich it feeds, arise from two
sources. The first source is the ex :.
sessof food taken over the body's
peeds. The second source Is the
jstris Of the WORKOUT tissues of
De body itself. The latter source
mEst always exist In greater or
less activity while life lasts. The
former source may be entirely cut
oH by fasting, and then the pro.
Ceases or nature are the more ea-i-
y capable of freeing the system
from the waste of the tissues. In
this way. DR.. Tanner claims, is
brought about the publication, or
As be sometimes terms it, new
birth. There is a story that a
wealthy lady once complained to
that she had noticed
That the ragged and dirty children
tn the poor quarter OF the city
were generally in robust health,
while her own children, well
and kept scrupulously
clean, were sickly.
Madam said the physician,
the reason is that your children
are clean on the outside, but the