Fasting for the Cure of Disease

book · 1908

type:book

year:1908

citation:Hazzard LB. Fasting for the Cure of Disease. Seattle: Harrison Publishing Co.; 1908. 179 p. Library of Congress, RM226 .H3, LCCN 09031446. https://www.loc.gov/item/09031446/

LINK

https://www.loc.gov/item/09031446/

SUMMARY

Linda Burfield Hazzard's self-published statement of her fasting cure, issued at Seattle in 1908 (179 pages; Library of Congress copy, LCCN 09031446, held in the public domain). The book sets out her disease doctrine in her own words: that disorder fills the blood with impurities, that the body manifests disease as Nature's effort to cast those impurities out, and that the cure is to stop eating so elimination can proceed, with auto-intoxication invoked as the underlying harm. The primary source for the intervention and the two longevity-adjacent claims attributed to Hazzard. It reports her own reasoning and case anecdotes, not a controlled study; no measured endpoint beyond weight loss and 'elimination' is defined.

NOTES

Fasting for the Cure of Disease (Seattle: Harrison Publishing Co., 1908) is Hazzard’s own exposition of the regimen and the primary source for the case. It frames disease as the consequence of impurity in the blood and fasting as the means by which the body, left unburdened by food, discharges that impurity; it invokes auto-intoxication, the idea that retained toxins poison the system, as the mechanism the fast relieves. As evidence it is a first-person doctrine illustrated by case anecdotes, with no comparison group and no defined endpoint other than weight reduction and the cessation of symptoms the author reads as proof of elimination. It is cited here for the claim and the mechanism as Hazzard stated them, not as a demonstrated outcome. The Library of Congress copy (LCCN 09031446) is digitized and in the public domain; the front cover supplies the case object image.