Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-06-04
!, HOW TO BECOME THIN.

HOW TO BECOME THIN.
Hot Water and Animal Food Used for Sew
"' = enteen Weoks. & sr:.. j
from the New York Tribune.
One of the most eminent of our civ.
il engineers has sent us the following
account of the remarkable success
with which he has experimental upon
himself. A diet exclusively composed
of meat and hot water is not tempt.
ing to the ordinary man. But the re.
suits in his case are extraordinary:
Il am sanguine-from your courte-
sy to me on previous occasions-that
you will allow mo to tell my story
in your columns, because believe it
may be the means OF bringing relief to
many who are now helpless suffer
ers. My case was a. comparatively
mild example of g. class of ailments
which have since learned to be very
large indeed, and I can state it quite
shortly. On the first day OF 1884
had a very painful attack of what
turned out to renal calculus This
was repeated several times in the same
week, and then at intervals Of about
two months until the September fol-
lowing, I am nearer fifty than forty,
have always lived plainly and regular
ly, and been nearly a total abstainer.
am five feet eleven inches in height,
and at the time of the first seizure
weighed sixteen stone four pounds in
my clothes, or about fifteen stone five
pounds net, and measured forty -five
inches and half around the waist.
had been too stout for my height for
twenty years, but rarely suffered from
anything but indigestion, evidenced BY
very frequent attacks of heartburn.
On the. real trouble appearing, my
family doctor, for whom l entertain
the highest respect, Immediately gdpp-
ped my eating beef, restricting me to
fish, fowls, vegetables, and occasionally
little well-hung mutton, and prescribed
lithia water for drink. BY his advice
went in August, 1884, to take the
sulphur baths and drink the water at
strathpeffer, in Ross-shire. Upto that
time this lowering diet had created no
Improvement, and an attack 1 had
ON the LIST of July was the very worst
of all, and the course at Strathpeffer
did me no good. At the end of August
Twas fortunately asked to go to Amer
lea on q matter OF professional bust
ness, and while there had asomewhat
milder attack on the 18th of Septem-
Der. InNew York Imet an old friend,
who, after learning the state OF my
health, advised me to consult q DR..
Butler, who had treated him, his
daughter, and agreat many other peo-
pie he knew, in what appeared very
extraordinary fashion, but with the
most gratifying success. l did as
was advised, duly received certain in
structions, and, having satisfied my
self that no harm had ever been known
to result from the treatment, started
q course as soon as could after my
arrival at home. This course consist
ed in drinking nothing but hot
water and eating practically moth
ing but animal food for seven.
teen weeks. The water was taken in
four doses per day, at a temperature
OF from 100 deg. to $50 deg. Fahren.
heit, on an empty stomach, and at
least one hour before a meal. The
first I took at 7 A. NJ, second at noon,
third at 5 P. NJ, fourth at 10 P. M,
and a pint to a pint and q quarter
each time. Lean beefstake, freed from
fat, skin and connective tissues, was
recommended, as the model food, and
this formed rs per cent OF all I ate,
during the 121 days, the remainder be-
ing plain boiled Goldfish, and occasion
ally few sticks OF celery. During the
whole time did not have bit OF
bread, potato, or any other vegetable,
except a little pepper, mustard, and
horseradish as condiments. Twas ad-
vised that ! must eat at least four
pounds OF beef per day, and as near
ly as l can estimate my daily average
of solid food through the course was
five pounds.
'The results in my own case are
simply these: On the II tn of October
1884, having then been somewhat re-
duced by the starvation treatment
my own doctor advised, weighed
two hundred poundsnet. BY the 2lst
OF December had lost thirty-nine
pounds, bringing me to one hundred
and sixty-one pounds. This was the
irreducible minimum, for although ]
continued the same course until the
9th of February I got no lighter. At
the latter date I began to eat little
rice with my beef, and gradually
worked as directed into regular diet
OF two parts of animal to one of vege.
table food, and this I have as nearly
as possible maintained ever since, con-
tinuing also the early morning and
the noon dose of hot water every day.
have not had the slightest touch of
heartburn since l began, fifteen months
ago, and, so far as can Judge, the
kidney trouble has entirely disappear
ed. AS am instructed, the drastic
four months course broke down
and removed the degenerated It's
sues from the long continued eating OF
an undue quantity OF vegetable food,
and built it up anew, and the normal
two to ono method of living is con-
serving my system in good running or.
der. The hot water has secured out
of the blood and the organs the crys-
talline deposits introduced by the i'm
perfect digestion and assimilation of
the improper food, and a steady per-
severance on the present lines, feel
confident, will keep meright. Encourag-
ed by my experience, an engineer in the
North of England, who had suffered
from govt, rheumatism and gravel all
his adult life, and who comes of a
equity stock, has for three months
taken the hot water and for nine weeks
the beef He began over eighteen stone
in weight; he has lost fifty pounds,
and for twenty years, he tells me, he
has never until now been free from
pain. He says he has derived an i'm
mense amount OF good from the treat
ment.
ITO sum up in a word: Two years