The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-06-11
How to Avoid Fat.

It will scarcely be credited that, in the country,
filled with Pharoahs lean kline, = book has made
it's appearance, setting forth the causes and the
remedy of inordina!e fat This book is by DR..
Dancel OF Paris and has already reached its third
edition In . country, where the human race ap
pears to be dwindling away both In numbers ro-
tundity and stature. We have heard of Falstaf-
fan Euglshmen and of fat Germans, but it was
long ago q conceded fact-in England-that on
one pair of English legs do march three French.
men-that is. Frenchman is but one-third ps IT
of an Euglishman in blood muscle and plut K.
Such at any rate, used to be the opinion in En- =,
land, and, though the Crimean war may have proA
duced some modification of it 10 regard to valour.
1t certainly showed that the French soldiers a, q
very diminutive specimens of humanity. With
due Difference therefore, we think DR.. Darc eel
would better write work: "How to become fat -
instead of How to avoid fat and It will be equal
ly useful and popular In France and America
In lieu of such volume, the next best thing is
to take Doctor Dancels rules for avoiding fat and
reverse them, so as to enable lean persons to be-
come corpulent According to the doctor, seden
tary life promotes obesity; ALSO great fondnes
for farinaceous, starchy and sugary diet, want of
thought, great absorption of fluids by drinking
mucQ, Dy NeQucub Geplu U6bI5, or even DY con-
stantly breathing damp air. The chief cause men
toned however is eating and drinking more than
enough. Almost every one takes more food than
is requisite for the support of the SYSTEM such as
have good digestion, says the learned writer con-
vert the surplus into fat " bile these who have not,
transmute it into pains, cramps and headaches.
To diminish fat our physician directs the patien.
to live principally on meat eating little else and
drinking as little as possible. Vegetables, SOUPS
puddings, tarts, fruits, breads and cakes in their
protean forms. have carbon and oxygen for their
principal bases and water is the protoxide of by-
drogen; all of which substances are the elements
of fat. The principal base of meat is azote or nj
trogen, which does not enter into the composition
of fat; hence lean meat is good diet for the aspi
rant after leanness Carniverous animals are
never corpulent, and pigs are fattened by meal
vegetables and milk, rather than meat The small
est possible quantity of liquid is An indispensable
condition.
In addition to these counsels of DR. DspceI. we
are told that soap pills and akals are administer.
ed to aid in relieving the system from fat Though
with the caution that the remedy is sometimes
worse than the disease. 1t is stated that some
terrible cases of fat have been cured through read.
ing this book, and that, among others, q monster
baker, SO fat he could not walk or lie down. was
enabled TO lose forty pounds in three months
and to diminish his abdominal equator about forty
centimeters The treatment prescribed for him
was-for breakfast beef steak or outlets. a Gun
of coffee anda very small quantity of vegetables
for dinner, plenty of meat and little else; and q
bottle or bottle and a half of liquid per day.
We think, then, we cannot be far wrong IN re-.
commenting our lean and shadowy countrymen to
take the doctors directions to fat people, and VIC.
late every one of them Eat farinaceous food;
think as little as possible; delight In bread and
vegetables, and devour little meat-especially
while the weather is so hot and the prices so high
and only use soap pills the surface of the body
Then shall we have men about us that are fat. and
women. substantial and genuine. like the solid
danes of eur early history, from whom sprang the
giants of re.