The vitality pitch that places the case in the dietetic-vitalist longevity tradition: that a body purged of impurity by fasting is returned to its natural vigor, with periodic fasting framed as the foundation of durable health. The endpoint is a surrogate, restored “vigor” and “natural balance” rather than any measured outcome; the broader longevity reading is the archive’s placement of the claim in the tradition of Cornaro, Hufeland, and Metchnikoff rather than a specific lifespan figure quoted from Hazzard. The claim is refuted on its own terms: the regimen did not restore health but produced starvation and, in at least fourteen Washington cases between 1907 and 1913, death (Washington State Archives).