Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-10-13
b F.JRTY-TNO LONG DAYS
Fn.L. c. SCOTT HAS TASTED
.is. SUFFERER FROM CHRONIC
KHET MATIsM AND HOPES
TO CtRE 1T.
ruFR FAsTs HAVE HELPED.
-opneFs TO CONTINUE HIS Alb
>rNENCE FROM FOOD FOR
SIXTY DAYS.
the Register.

NOTION. w. Va. October II.
b.. t.. c. Scott. chaplain of he West
+-- Asylum for Incurables in this
not taken mouthful of food
4r=. He is a native of Gygart's
Randolph county. West Virgin
niles from the present site OF
04 Of Elkins. He Is now IS years
after having been for some
Ggder in his native county, Mr..
II the age of %. entered OHIO
University at Delaware, and
-=a fEele over four years. About
Wsry. 1891. while yet student al
eaa. Mr.. Scott was seized with
mai IN. He returned to Beverly.
Ii county. his home. and went
dr. fa are OF local physicians. He
10 Hot Springs, Ark, where
.-.s! "A year under treatment with
Mr.. Scott was pastor of the
If E Church at Hot Springs while
s,- HIaae He then had charge for
4rs of the First NJ. E. Church
sess-fv. then the county seat of
-a. his native county. In 1895
r,-- 10 Clifton Springs, n. Y, and
board CT six physicians was
a8tment for five months. There
Id no arrest TO the progress OF
disease. In the spring OF 1896 he
limited as a student TO Drew
zeal Seminary. Madison. New
White there he sought treatment
arbilt hospital and was
informed by DIR. shrady,
fae most eminent of America
TONERS. dlat his disease was as
Enable Is consumption. Seney hos
3raok.yn, and its DR.. Goodridge
ri out no encouragement could
given the sufferer The patients
elbows, fingers and ankles be-
1nrhylosed. and his neck also, so
Years his chin has been pressed
q aUM bis breast; he has been I'M
is grasp anything or to raise his
h his mouth, he has had TO be
even drink, clothed and wheeled
4 chair like a helpless infant
Of all this. however, Mr.. Scott
ken bright. eheery, hopeful. He
.6~.es well. has lost none of his zest
he. and rs versed in all the affairs
c5acern intelligent men.
l5B5ful. jubilant, never-say
|H.-a ment solves all problems. The
IN fares hard who does not have
65.ient the hep OF temperament.
s is more than all this; he is
e'. lie was led to believe in 1897
,.7 C.. C. Haskell, OF n uwich. Conn,
lie met at Mt. Lake Park, Md.
lsting would benefit him. MI.
Has Impressed by Mr.. HaskelTs
saa6s. and ON three different occa-
rs I'd five, ten AND eleven days
lively. and every time
with Immense Relief.
|. trends. relatives and care takers
light: they believed him insane
beat on suicide, and constrained
+ TO eat. with the result each time
IA he relapsed into his old trouble.
pr I'D his correspondence with
/ HASKELL and made the acquaint-
uf local clergyman who was
T long friend of Mr.. Haskelfs and
EselJ a faster, and had some CORE
with DR.. Dewey. of Mead
.r Pa. veteran champion of fast
{ medical practice. Mr.. Scott be-
le satisfied that his trouble was
used pr morbid ferment in his
mach. for during all the years of
s suffering he has had coated
-gue lie thinks he has fed the fer
aai and the ferment has fed the dis
S.. lie is confirmed in this judg-
en- by his remarkable recovery. on
d. aston of each Of his fasts. Ac-
tau5iy on September |, with the con-
d OF his physicians, he began a
toe fast TO be kept up not less than
weeks. and as much longer as there
sAt be prospect of improvement.
This is the forty-second day of his
His pulse has improved from the
S. Vt once his skin assumed clean
althy look and no longer had upon 1t
Characteristic offensive, oily exuda-
IN,
The Swelling Disappeared
ln his Joints: within three weeks he
ifed down stairs, and can now get
rom his invalid chair and walk.
le cat still remains on his tongue,
Z he is advised that when 1t begins
ifave his tongue it will leave in a
fry. 1t is an interesting experiment
'lng to starve out disease. If Mr..
ou shows that chronic disease can be
2 + d successfully by this method
VIII prove benefactor of the human
e.
Mr. Scott proposes as long a fast as
. physicians will permit; for a full
nv days If pulse and other indica-
ms show that he may do that with
ie'l. The record is eighty days. 1t
needless to say that Mr.. SCOTS
eads sFmpathize with him in his
io!' struggle and will rejoice if he
AQuerS in his fight with the disease