The Arizona champion., 1890-10-04

If his teachings and example had had no effect at all, however, it would have proved that the fat people were less en- terprising and energetic than other civil ized men in our day ever are. They re- fused to consider Banting's failure as final. They declined to accept the doc tors advice to ''let well enough alone" They continued their demand that obes- ity should be treated as a disease, and a cure found for it. Accordingly every few years new fat doctor appears on the scene, and the quacks fill up the in- tervals with the sale of more or less deadly specifics. No great progress was made, however, until Bismarck became dissatisfied with his fat, and called for physician who could relieve him of it. This physician appeared in the person of certain Dr. Schweniger, who cut down the chancellor's weight to such an extent that he had him nominated to profes- sorship in the faculty of medicine in the Berlin university, and insisted on his ap- pointment in the teeth of the opposition of the other doctors, who had either never heard of Schweniger before, or heard what was bad. To the argument that he had won no distinction in the profes- sion, the answer was that he had taken fifty or sixty pounds off the princes huge frame. Schweniger accordingly rapidly became an authority on fatness, and the pamphlet containing his system is sold by tens of thousands.
 The well known Dr. Yeo, of London, discusses this system ill The Nineteenth Century. It ought to be said en passant that Schweniger's cure is claimed also by Professor Oertel, of Munich, who says he discovered it, but this avails him little, because he did not treat the chancellor. Schweniger maintains that the chief cause of fat among men, as among ami mals, is eating too much, no matter of what, and drinking too much, even of water, at ones meals, but especially of wine, beer and spirits. The central principle of this system is, that unless you live by muscular toll you must cut down the quantity you eat, and must drink but little, if any, with your meals. Of course he has minor rules, and makes distinctions between different articles of food, but to him quantity is the great enemy of the obese. After him comes a certain Ebstein, who also has his system, which differs from both Banting's and Schweniger's, but all three agree that to be lean you must greatly reduce your consumption of the carbohydrates or starchy things.
 Germany is the country where the most vigorous fight with fat is carried on, and where fat cures excite most in terest, owing, it is said, to the great prevalence of obesity, a result in part of the consumption of beer, and in part, doubtless, of the frequency and hearti- ness of the meals. Accordingly the num- Der of people who go to the various baths for simple corpulency is very large. Oertel makes provision for this class by prescribing carefully graded walks, in which the ascent will stimulate the hearts action and strengthen it.
 All the masters agree that it is mainly through its effect on the heart that fat becomes dangerous. If you surround your heart thickly with fat you impede its working, and it gradually grows weaker, and then, some fine day, when you have put little more fat on it and call on it for extra exertion, it stops short and down you go. Fat does not greatly trouble the young and active in any country. It is when, in middle life, ex- ercise begins to be distasteful, but the appetite remains as good as ever, that it comes on people like strong man armed, and makes exertioR especially in hot weather, very formidable. But the fat naonle are ororsed A1 ve feel sl1re their. number, in proportion to population, will hereafter be diminished.-New York Evening Post.