The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-10-27

than one hundred and thirty pounds
but / do weigh two hundred anC
twenty. Now just think of my car
Tying that extra ninety pounds when
ever move. What can be done fol
me? All summer long l pant and per
spire, and wish myselfin Greenland
/ When I walk the street, my sisteI
says 1 look Just like a Berkshire pig
When 1 go up stairs in hurry [ Jus
lose my breath altogether, ndplumI
myself down iutO a chair, and gasp i
/ back agin. Now what can be dOnt
for me, DoetOr?"
HAS your husband a hOrse?" q
already knew he had several.
''Oh, yes; why you know he keepi
a stable full"
"Do they ever get fat?''
"Oh, yes; you know my husband
/ keeps fast horses. hear about moth.
/ ing else the year round, but '2.4O, 2.31,
and that they are too fat and thai
they are out of condition. and all the
rest of it; you know the phrases"
"When your husbands's horses gel
| too fat, can he reduce them?"
"Oh, yes; very easily"
"How does he do it?''
"Why, he reduces their food, and
gives them more exercise"
MADAM, all l have TO say is, &c
thou and do likewise "
"WhatI starve? Why, 1 have tried
that for months together. What
have eaten wouldn't keep a mosquito
alive; and have grown fatter and
fatter all the time.
Madam, you must excuse me, but
what you are saying lacks accuracy.
You eat and drink too much, or YOU
would not be in this condition"
"Well, how little should I eat?u
''I cannot tell you that; but / can
say that you should reduce the guam
tity which you are now eating, and
that you should live with very little
drink. This will help you much.
''TO be particular, let me say, 90 on
with just such food as you like. If you
are fond of meat, all the better; in
crease the proportion of that article a
little. Masticate the food very thor.
oughly, so that you will not need
much drink to swallow it. When
you have a desire for drink, content
yourself with . single mOuthful. In
a week or two, you will be surprised
to find how the wish for water has
disappeared. If you can learn to get
on with one tumblerful of water or
other drink per day, this fat, shaky
condition will at once begin to disap-
pear.
fBut to speak of your food again,
reduce the quantity you now eat one
quarter, and after, say two months,
reduce another quarter. Thisreduction
will probably be sufficient, if you
rigidly observe what 1 have said about
drinks.
'If, in addition to this, you exer-
else yourself into a prOfuse perspira-
ton once or twice a day, you viii be
astOnished to find how soon your
clothes will.be growing loose. Why,
madam, there is not a fat person un-
der fifty years Of age in the country,
who might not get himself or herself
into comfortable proportions in less
than half year."
"Doctor, what do you think of
Banting's system ?"
"I think just this. If pe0nle have
no control oyer their appetites, that
system is a good thing, although sure
to produce an abnormal condition of
the tissues. We cannot use meat
above acertain percentage in our food,
without deranging the general health.
A feverish, hard pulse, and a certain
condition of the stomach and liver
which will show itself in a da=kening
of the cOmplexiOn-these and other
symptoms will show, when we eat
more meat than we should, that the
vital processes are not going on well;
and besides, this eXpedient which
Banting advises of living on meat, is
entirely unnecessary. 1t is infinitely
better to keep up about the usual pro-
portions of meat and vegetable food,
and simply reduce the quantity"
''But, Doctor, if go into this thing
as you advise, it seems to me that l
shall hardly be able to keep on my
feet, I shall be so weak"
MADAM, you are entirely misla-
ken. Any person when too fat will
only experience a sense of lightness
and increasing strength, when max
ing a judicious reduction in the
amount of food and drink. He will
breathe better, move quicker, and feel
that a great load is being removed.
"For example, a man weighs, say
two hundred and fifty pounds, and
should weigh, to be active and healty
one hundred and seventy-five pounds.
This man is carrying about and extra
seventy-fve pounds, interfering with
his respiration and activity; in other
words, cutting short the two great
conditions of health, viz, respiration
and exercise. Yet that man goes on
putting and blowing until he dies, and
dies prematurely, too, for excess
i've fat is inimical to longevity.
"AnOther word or two about drinks.
All fat people are large drinkers, and
when we remember that about three
fnurths of the human body is water,
(if Won Dut human body into an
oven and make it perfectly dry, it will
90 down from $50 pounds to
about forty pOunds) you see what an
intimate relation with this fat eOndi-
tiOn the large use of drinks may have.
And it is not difficult to learn to get
on with but little water. Most peO-
pie drink many times more than they
really need. A man weighing two
hundred and fifty has sixty or seven
ty pounds more of water in his sys-
tenn than it needs. So he must drink
but little water and he will soon get
on comfortably, not only without sUf-
fering, but with improving health.
MADAM, before YOU leave, / want
to say one other thing; you must not
sleep too much. Long sleep fattens.
Don't 90 to bed very early, but get
up early in the morning. Seven
hours in the twenty<Our, or say six
hours for a while. will do for you. In
other words, madam, my prescription
for YOU is, keep pour elJes open and
your mouth shut"
HOW SHALL THIN PEOPLE BECOME
PLUMP.
But for one fat person there are, es-
peeiaIIy in New England, a dozen
lean ones.
Here comes a young woman Of
twenty-five, who looks as though she
was thirty-five, and the prematurely
old looks come from this clinging Of
the skin 70 the bones. See how hOI-
low her temples and cheeks are. Cast
ing her ewes about the Office to see
that nobody overhears, she says:
tDOctor, what can be done for these
dry bones? Why, can hardly make
a shadow: and while 1 ought too be
plump at twenty, (which she desires
me 20 understand is her age here 1
am looking like an old grandmother.
Can anything be done for these crows
feet about my eyes, and these scraw-
ny collar bones ~
"Well this is curious; a woman just
the opposite condition has this mo-
ment left here. She is carrying nine
ty pounds to much flesh That makes
her miserable. 1 have prescribed for
her, and il she follows the prescrip-
ton, in six months she will lose her
extra pounds. If YOU have nodisease
but simply lack Of fat, 1 am sure 1
shall be able to prescribe for yOI, 50
that the desired twenty-five pounds
or more will come in about the same
length Of time"
II am perfectly well, and ! am
strong, too, ouly 1 am such skele-
ton"
sLet me question you a little.
What time do you 20 to bed? ?n
'Generally about eleven, or half
past eleven"
''This must be changed. Instead Of