Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-11-06
HOW TO GET FAT.
A Few Simple Rules Of Diet and Rest
Which Are Effective.

Lean people are clamoring in great num-
bers to know how they can add to their at
tenuated bodies the muscular tissues which
their stonter fellow-citiZens are throwing
away. The question is difficult one to
answer. In the first place nature did not
intend that we should all go about with our
bones hidden beneath mountains Of flesh.
There must and always will be some lean
and hungry ones.
"Thinness as a rule" said a wel-known
physician to New York World reporter,
''is constitutional. 1t depends largely on
temperament and habit. Nature always
makes an effort to keep up the equilibrium.
Thus, when, after long sickness, the body
becomes emaciated, the wasted or lost It's
sue is speedily regained as the patient be-
comes convalescept Then, you may say
that attenuation is often chronic disease,
like all others, and quite as incurable. 1t
is perfectly natural that certain persons
should be sparingly supplied with flesh.
| They are healthy and as a rule live longer
than those who are far stouter. The main
| point is TO keep the body we'll nourished.
In most cases where the loss OF flesh is slow
and gradual there is some form OF sickness
| present that causes it. Nature, like every
! evenly-balanced and well-organized body,
always repairs during rest the waste that
| las ONCuLIOO duIllH lil6 udJ. n pTCpOu-
| derance OF fat is always Q sign Of impaired
health, and so thin people who are trying
to increase their weight must start out to
make muscular, and not adipose tissue,
This can be done in many ways. have
/ demonstrated to several of my colleagues
that can put half pound of flesh on my
body every day as we'll as cake that amount
| of In the same time" continued the doctor.
II experimental on myself for eighteen
days. At the eud of that time was just
J nine pounds heavier than was when be-
| gan, and could easily have continued In
creasing my weight had chosen to do So"
"How did you do itl' asked the reporter
"Every night just before 1 stepped into
bed ate as much Of stale bread crusts and
Roquefort cheese as / could comfortably
swallow, and jumped into bed. That sounds
strange in view Of the fact that we are told
that the worst thing we can do is to eat just
before retiring. Well, ] confess, it was
very disagreeable to try 70 20 to sleep With
stomach full Of food. The first few nights
l couldn't get wink Of sleep, but grad
ually became accustomed to the diet-in
| fact, IL not only agreed with me, but I got
TO enjoying my ante-bed luncheon. Every
day put myself on the scales and found
that I increased half pound ip weight as
each twenty-four hours went by, Besides
this. took to Longing about the ONCE and
lying down without going to sleep as often
as c5lld do so during the day. / took no
exercise to speak of whatever All the
while kept my kidneys under close obser-
walton, and increased my Consumption Of
liquid. This was, practically speaking, an
l did," l.
The doctor is In his ordinary condition q
well-nourished man, free from all signs Of
chronic disease, and trifle above the aver
age weight.
Prof. Detyveiler, German physician of
high standing, has q sanitarium in Silesia
where he treats persons who are wasting
away with disease. He has been very sue
cessful and has accomplished many astound-
ing cures. He uses no medicine at all. His
system is to get his patients to eat as much
and as often as they can In plain words,
it is nothing more or less than q system of
forced feeding At his sanitarium the Ia
bles are aiwAys set, and besides q number
Of irregular luncheons each guest is obliged
to eat eight regular meals a day. II per-
son suffers from an impaired appetite the
doctor soon corrects the difnculty and then
be begins to pile in the food. No restric-
tions arc placed upon the patients save that
they are not ailo@ed to indulge in amuse-
ments that require mental OF muscular ex-
ertion. To make sure that the patients do
not Dolt their 1000 Dr. DetWeller generally
sits at the head Of the table and beats time
to each mouthful, just as q band-master
compels his musicians 70 hold note. It is
an odd sight to watch the patients eat 70 a
musical time-beat, but il has ateHing effect
and few people leave the sanitarium after q
soiourn Of two months with less than TWEEN.
w pounds more flesh than they had when
they entered the institution. All the while
the patients are required to sleep In tents
in the open air, and are not allowed to dc
work of any kind. Even in cases where the
emaciation results from consumption OF
chronic disease Of long standing DIR. bet
weller has succeeded in effecting q cure,
OF course when disease is present it is
treated in the regular way.
The rule TO be observed by those persons
who feel that they ought TO be q trifie
stouter IA .,;,.,ply this: Avoid excitement
and keep your mind as 1 .,sSh as possible in
state OF repose and free from worry. a -
pie OF nervous temperament should control
themselves. Learn to sit quietly for a long
period and don't rush about Consuming
muscular tissue by unnecessary move
mentsL
After carefully observing this Injunction