Hazzard’s governing mechanism, stated throughout Fasting for the Cure of Disease (1908): that disorder loads the blood with impurities, that the body manifests disease as Nature’s effort to expel them, and that withholding food lets elimination proceed and relieves the auto-intoxication she held responsible. It is a mechanism-only claim with no measured endpoint beyond weight loss and symptoms she read as proof of elimination. It is refuted: prolonged total fasting does not cure organic disease, and under Hazzard’s regimen at least fourteen patients in Washington died of starvation between 1907 and 1913 (Washington State Archives). The blood-impurity premise is the same one James Morison sold as the Hygeian system three generations earlier.