Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-05-13
teaching of the regular physicians p, 7

asked.
i Certainly" she replied; "but do w,
not know that thirty years ago these sam
regular physicians taught that a patien
suffering from fever must not be allowe1
cold water, and that milk was held to h,
an lntiammatory food and not allowed I,
fever, and that now the fever patient i !;
permitted all the cold water he wishes
and that milk is recommended as his fooI
par excellence? And thirty wears from
now, when an obese patient. s,lfferinc
from Whatever cause, consults his nhvsi
can, the first thing to be done will be r.
reduce his fat.' - - W "
diet alone?" S'--r'''' ~
On, no; give simple constitutions
remedy, which not only. hastens the re.
ducton, but avoids all the dangers and
9lscomforts OF those who have tried the
bantlng system on the one hand and the
antl-tat medicines on the other"
This remedy is your secretq"
"Qf course, but not PATENT
Is not this something like ouackerv %,
very likely; but do you know that
quack has become very cheap cpl
Cnet ,tnat LOOMS and Hammond are at
| swords point; that the. New York Aca-
oemy OF Medicine is split into factions
nghtlng like cats and dogs as to what
constitutes 'quack, and that its veneer
able president, DR.. Fordyce Barker. came
near me- being expelled recently on charge
:" Good for you. And you will 90 on
eliminating obesity from the fashionable
circles of New York ?'
" Not altogether; / have made dis
covery OF far more importance than that.
L have found from the start that too
much flesh or too little flesh originated in
impaired digestion. To get clear of the
adlpose l had to bring my patients UP to
the best health attainable. Very well:
accident threw in my way poor woman
suffering from cancer in the breast that
her physician had resolved to remove
through surgical operation. She was
suffering, and in such i'll health that the
proposed operation promised death.
told her l thought l could, through treat
ment, so restore her general health that
she could bear the shock. She consented.
l not only restored her general health,
but, to my surprise, saw the cancer dis
appear"
"Helen Barnard Densmore," 1 inter
rupted, ''if you claim to possess a cancer
cure am done with you. / don't be-
lieve in your flesh elimination"
Stop a second" she said; "the cam
Ger disappeared, and the doctor said that
he had been mistaken in his diagnosis;
that it was tumor, evidently, and not
cancer. l accepted that, although he
would have, but for me, called in his sur
geon and killed his patient. Perhaps he
was right in the end, although so grossly
wrong in the beginning, but it started me
in the way of investigation. n
Il have now a poor woman who has
been examined by the most eminent pro-
lessor of surgery in this city, and her case
pronounced that of cancer past cure. She
is getting better, and, if am not grossly
deceived, will be cured"
SIS your medicine so powerful, then? ?"
mo, it is not; but accompanied by the
treatment it seems to be effective. Ex-
cuse me, here is one of my patients"
A stunning turnout had dashed up to
the door, and from it emerged middle
aged woman carrying mountain load of
furs and velvets and flesh.
1t is not so long since that Hawthorne,
in his book on English life, spoke of the
tendency to flesh the people of England
are now troubled with, especially the
who were stately and presentable
as girls, and offensive at middle age from
their obesity. He said the bust of mid
die aged woman made Rome howl. This |
was then supposed to be in violent con-
trast to our own land now we have the |
beefy exhibits as we'll as the Bulls.
was entertained by the husband-Dr.
Densmore-a regular practitioner, grad |
uate of the New York University Medical |
College, while the patient within was
being treated. He is quiet, thoughtful |
sort of gentleman, who seemed to be |
somewhat surprised at the current in
which he found himself floating on to for
tune. 1t was odd to see regular practi- |
toner engaged in such irregular business
as curing any one, but great discovery |
and an indomitable will carried him
through. tt -ts
Speaking of the medicated Sylphied |
process for female reduction reminds me |
Of Fanny Davenport-who nightly kills |
Fedora, not, as the author intended, in
the last, but, as the audience discovers to
its dismay, in the first acts a noted |
specimen of successful elimination of !
lovely flesh, Some two years since | saw
Fanny, and recognized the unpleasant |
fact that her adipose was overtaking her |
beauty. Last night she caromed on the |
upholstery of Fedora human, handsome,
and liable to be loved. This she has &C
without impairing her health,
and that is the wonder of it. .lE
Clara Louise kellogg, who would be a |
great prima donna had she little knowl-
edge of acting and a voice, does not try |
the eliminating process, although she is
mountainous" in her adipose.
But, do you know, that while this dread |
disease of fat is fatal to an actress, as it |
was to Croizette, prima donna may get
as unwieldly as she pleases SO long as her
voice remains, DOM PIATT.