Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-08-01
TASTED FORTY DAYS.
Remarkable Experience Of a Man In
Grant County.
CURED HIMSELF BY THE FAST.

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teresting experience of Prof. yelling
ton Putnam who left Silver City on
last Friday evenings train for his
home in New York City. so far as
known to the writer there is but one
other man. DR. Tanner who performed
this feat and 1t left him physical
wreck Fas different with Professor
Putnam. He did not choose to deprive
his system of solid food for forty days
for the notorety to be gained from
II but to test the efficacy of the fast
ing" cure for troublesome kidney
disease. Prof. Putnam claims that
he has been completely cured by his
long abstinence from food and is high.
ly elated over the result
Professor Putnam came TO Silver
City July II. 1892, from Columbia
University where he was professor
o. elocution. lie was suffering from
kidney trouble and chose the balmy
climate OF New Mexico in preference
to that of the Adirondacks or the Cat
skills as affording him tie greatest
amount of sunshine thus insurng
an outdoor life during the winter
months. Shortly after his arrival here.
he decided to put u test the So
called fasting treatment for his
trouble and abstained from food for
fifteen days The effect was benef.
cial but did not leave him completely
cured. During the winter he lived an
outdoor life. studying the open air
and writing chapter after chapter OF
his book, The Art OF Expression"
Silver City audiences will remember
several delightful evenings spent
with the gifted reader during which
be gave masterful interpretations of
Stephen Phillips "Herod" and West.
colts David Earum." He also rem
dered RIP Van Wrinkle before the
Normal students.
Early In May Professor Putnam
left for the ella hot springs. about
, sixty miles from here. and there de-
cided e again abstain from food. 81
did not start out to fast forty days"
D, said the professor, but to hold out as
5 long as | could. Finally when the dan
ger signal lo1mod up so large that |
could no longer afford to pass II un.
l. needed, | decided to again resume
the eating habit. just forty days after
E took my last mouthful OF food"
3 Professor Putnam says he came
y
c would abstain from food as much as
:. possible, live an outdoor life and
spend as much time In contact with
Mother rTrth as he possibly could,
he wouia get we'll He has put this
i theory to the test. though at what
l. must have been torture to some per.
o sons. and claims that he has been
!, greatly benefited II not cured by II
J. During the first thirty dayG of his
y fasting. the professor says he spent
y the time In the open air near his tent
n working on his book, the concluding
chapters OF which he finished while
at the springs. and which Is now In
q the publishers hands.
3 During the time he drank great
q quantities OF the ella hot springs
water and took the hot baths. During
a the next five days he refrained from
u doing any mental or physical labor
!. OF any kind. During the last five days
u the effect OF his long fast became ap
:, parent and he had to be attended by
~ nurse. He was so weak he coulC
rs not raise his arm and had to be fed
On the morning of tho forty-first da,
he broke his fast by taking soup made
OF plasma, q condensed food said Il
~ he pure proteii. But the most remark
~ able thing connected with his feat, 4
that not once during his fast did h.
=, have the slightest sensation OF hunge
~ and II was only with the first mouth
= full OF soup did the sense return I,
y him and he developed a voracious ar
petite following tine soup with grape
nuts and lettuce. For Ave days afte
~ his fast he lay In bed, scarcely abb
10 to move himself but fast recovering
40 his lost strength. kftar the NTH da
w he was able 20 move around and wv
weeks later left for Silver City.
Professor Putnam has accepted tn
l.. chair of elecution in well know
~ school OF oratory In Boston, and a
soon as he attends to the details RI
gardng the publication OF his forth
10 coming book. viii leave for the Hui
-. But II safe to hazard that he wi
~ never forget Silver City and the Gil
!. hot springs, where he performed on
~, of the most remarkable feats in hi,
- tory.
VI Fasting is recognized as a valuabl
- remedial agent In kidney troubl
70 by the medical fraternity and is ofte
recommended by them, although lon
abstanance from food Is discourage
for the reason that the system Is $
-, weakened as to counterfeit the goo
AZ effect OF the fast. In the case OF Pre-
~. fessor Putnam. that gentleman say
=, that his weakness became so generi
during the last day of the fast, as
~ affect his eyesight, rendering II In
49, possible for him 10 recognize HI
y, nurse at distance OF but a few fee
~ The case OF DR.. Tanner which o.
cupied the attention OF the entir
medical world several years ago,
slightly different from tina. OF Pro
OF Putnam is that Tanner abstaine
is from water, not entirely. but as niue
10 az II was possible for him to do 8
while Prof. Putnam drank grei
no qualities OF water from the hot sprin
ne However as this Is a mineral wat'
II could not have contained very muC
In nutriment. Strange to say. Tame
IN. also became identified with New Me
leo, in the establishment OF Shala
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