The famous novelist offers the public the fasting cure which improved his health. Contents: Preface; Perfect health - a letter to the New York Times; Some notes on fasting - fasting and doctors; Humors of fasting; Symposium on fasting - death during the fast, fasting and the mind, diet after the fast; Use of meat; Appendix - some letters from fasters, fruit and nut diet, Rader case, Horace Fletcher's fast.