Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-17
How to Get Thin.

ssAn old writer tells us" observes the Pail
 Mall Gazette, 'that the most tragic spectacle
 on earth is to see Q virtuous man fighting
 against an adverse fate. The case of William
 Banting may stand side by side with such,
 says writer in the Neue Freie Presse, for
 he, unhappy mortal, had for above 30 years
 to fight without result against an overfreight
 of 50 pounds of fat. Trivial as this may ap
 pear to thin people, 1t is often question of
 life and death to those victims of eorpulence
 who, being possessed of sensitive mind and
 cheerful constitution, have to go through
 life bearing all the moral humiliations and
 other more material discomforts to which
 people of an excessive embonpoint are sub
 jected by their unfeeling fellow-creatures.
 MT. Banting could not find the strength to
 regard with Olympian indifference the sneers
 and smiles which his unfortunate person at
 tracted. He retired into solitude, aed there
 fer long time made vain endeavors to rid
 himself of his disease. For years this seemed
 impossible he grew weaker and weaker by
 following the prescriptions of the physicians
 which all tended to the one point, that to be- come less corpulent 8 rigid diet must be kept. But suddenly new method was invented by the hard pressed man; he tried it, and who could describe the delight of the sufferer, when slowly but steadily his stoutness, and with it all the other symptoms of disease, l began to disappear. Everyone is acquainted with the principles of the 'Banting system,  good of his fellow-men, in 8 publication where we often meet with bSrsts of enthusi- 1 asm, such ss almost convert the book into a hymn of praise. In the German ztranslation some hitherto unmentioned prescriptions l have been added; one of them, more curious l than wise, but entirely harmless, is to allow ! the mental powers to become more active'- | piece of advice which perhaps it would be difficult to follow by those who have not to 1 compose 9 Divina Comedia,' which, as Dante himself tells us, kept him thin. A new | book on 'Corpulence, and it's treatment,' has 1 lately been published in Germany by Prof. Ebstein of Gottingen. He is not like the l English savior of the stout,' full of over flowing thankfulness for relief from his dis casa probably he has not even suffered from it, for corpulent men are rarely stern 1 and strict. His method also differs from that of Banting. According to Ebstein the primary cause of corpuleDcy Is the want of sufficient energy to renounce tho so.called attractions of life. He firmly maintains that fat is produced merely by over-eating and drinking. Water and drinking cures are al- ! together condemned by Prof. Ebstein and while the Banting system teaches that fiat makes fat this doctrine is directly opposed l by Prof. Ebstein, in whose ideal of fare for 1 those suffering from corpulency fat forms a ! great feature. The 25O grams of bacon, ] says Prof. Ebstein, which our Emperor or ! dered to be delivered daily to all soldiers | G6R1QR DdEG 1Q GQ6 fI8QCu CHLQpS1Ru or 1SIU, l are, SO to speak an official acknowledgment l of the importance of fat in the rational nour- l ishment of a hard-working man. The sn- I nexed bill of fare is that proposed by Prof. | Ebstein for an average case of eorpulency, | the invalid being supposed to be Al years of age and having suffered from increasing | stoutness for 25 years. The disease is SUD- 1 posed to be contracted by insufficient bodily | exercise, diet consisting of such things as | are hurtful, among which are named all sweet \ dishes and those containing much albumen I and those devoid of sufficient quantity ol 1 fat.
 l Breakfast st-A large cup of black tea with l out milk or sugar, 50 grams of white bread l or toasted brown bread, with plenty of but ter.
 ''Dinner.-Soup (frequently and with I bone-marrow,) 12O to 18O grams meat, boiled l or roasted, with fat gravy-fat meat being preferable-a small quantity of vegetables, particularly leguninous, but, also, all kinds l of cabbage. Turnips are excluded because o1 1 the sugar contained in them potatoes are l altogether excluded. After dinner some fresh fruit, when in season. as dessert, a salad
 or baked fruit witout sugar; two or three | glasses of light wine. Soon after dinner g l large cup of black tea, without milk and ! sugar.
 T'Supper.-In winter regularly, in summer 1 occasionally, large cup of black tea, without milk and sugar an egg or some fat roast meat, or both, sometimes fat ham, smoked or fresh fish, about 30 grams of white bread, with plenty of butter, and occasionally 8 small quantity of cheese and some fresh fruit"