The way she put on flesh was marvellous, and one could almost see her fatten from day to day.

Within ten days all her pains, neuralgia, and backache had gone, and have never been heard of since, and by that time we had also got rid of all her little pillows and other invalid appliances.
"It may be of interest, as showing what this system is capable of, if I copy her food diary on the tenth day after the treatment was begun; and all this, this bedridden patient, who had lived on starvation diet for twenty years, not only consumed with relish, but perfectly assimilated.
"Six A.M.: ten ounces of raw meat soup.

7 A.M.: cup of black coffee.

8 A.M.: a plate of oatmeal porridge, with a gill of cream, a boiled egg, three slices of bread-and-butter, and cocoa.

11 A.M.: ten ounces of milk.