Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-21
HOT WATER AND MEAT
Win Make the Corpulent Lose In
Flesh and Gain in Health.
EXPERIENCE OF CELIA LOGAN.
Throw Physie to the Dogs and Then Ray
Upon Resolute WILL
DETAILS OF AN UNFAILNa CURE
WRITTEN FOE THE p1srArcH.I

| WRITTEN FOE THE DrsPArcH.1
The chief of my many physical derange-
ments was the accumulation Of fat around
the heart, which was slowly COMPRISING
that organ and threatening to squeeze out
Its life, as the wall closed about the doomed
man in the 'Iron Shroud." That which
happened to me may happen to any other
person suffering from surplusage of adipose;
but, unlike me, he or she may not have the
good fortune to be warned in time for re-
covery, for sudden death from heart fail
ure" is liable to be the fate of any and every
too corpulent person.
The means by which was literally
snatched from the grave are 50 simple as
hardly to gain credence. They were inher-
ent in the curative system to which I now
submitted myself, and are to be found out
lined in the following instructions, which,
BY the kindness of DR.. Salisbury, am per-
mitted to make public:
| Drink pint Of hot water at about 100
Fahrenheit, one and half to two hours
before each meal and half an hour before re-
tiring. From to 10 minutes should be
| taken for drinking the water, so as not to
d1stend the stomach to an uncomfortable
degree.
Like Washing Out q Sewer
The object of the hot water is to wash
from the stomach the Shiny mucus, alco-
holic and sour yeasts and bile before eating
and sleeping. The water should be drank
long enough before each meal to allow it
time to get out of the stomach before the
food enters. When thirsty, between two
hours after q meal and one hour before the
next, drink hot water, clear tea, lemon
water or crust coffee. Take no other drink
Of any kind between meals. At meals
drink one cup Give or eight ounces) of clear
| tea or clear coffee
The best times for taking the hot wster
are at about A M, II A. NJ, 4 P. NJ, and
p. NJ, and the meals at 7:30 to 8 A. NJ,
1890 to 1 P. M, and $50 to p. M. It is
better to take the hot water in the morning
in bed, or, if up, to lie down for while
after taking it.
The food should be either the muscle pulp
OF beet, broiled beefsteak free from fat, roast
beef, broiled lamb or mutton or roast lamb
or mutton. For side dishes, oysters, law,
broiled or roasted in the shell, broiled or
broiIed or or roasted. All iii fat AuI should b
avoided, except little butter. Salt and
pepper and Worcestershire, Chutney or
Halford sauce may be moderately INDUCED
| in with the meats. ALI meats should be
fairly well cooked. Very rare meats are
| harder to digest, the muscular fbers pass
| ing through the bowels often undigested.
Celery is admissible. Avoid all other foods
and condiments.
The Weight Easily Regulated.
By persisting in this plan of ahmentation
the adipose tissue will rapidly disappear
and the loss in weight will be from ten to
thirty pounds per month, according to the
degree of fatness, the rigidity of diet and
the exercise and mental condition of the
patient. If the loss of weight becomes too
rapid and the shrinkage in bulk so fast that
the skin does not keep pace with it and
begins to hang in folds and wrinkles, a lit
tie of the fat-forming food, such as bread,
toast, rice, cracked wheat and potatoes may
be used. Usually, shrinkage of from ten
to fifteen pounds month is about right.
When the desired weight and bulk is
reached, increase the proportion of fat form
ing food just sufficiently to maintain the
bulk and weight of the body as desired
Usually two parts Of meat and one Of veg
etable food, by bulk, will be about right.
Often, however, this proportion may be
varied either way under the guidance Of
good judgment
The meals should be taken at regular In
tervals, and it is better to eat alone, or only
with those who are living on the same diet.
All temptation should as much as possible
be removed from the patient. If three
meals'a day are not sufficient to satisfy hun
ger the patient may be allowed nice piece
of broiled steak between breakfast and
dinner and dinner and supper. These extra
meals should be taken at fixed and regular
intervals.
A Resolute VIII Necessary.
Here is real cure for the corpulent with
out the use of medicine or the expense of
physician. All that it requires is the reso-
lutte will to adhere to that which admit is
very hard fare. lost 80 pounds in six
months, and found that had not merely
disappointed those physicians who said I
must die, but that had lost along with my
pains and ever present peril my cumbersome
bulk, and had begun to feel better than I |
had within the previous decade at least.
Those who are obliged to be out attending |
to business cannot, of course, take the II |
and O'Clock draughts, but the early morn
ing pint can be taken before getting up,
and as this is the most important pint of all |
it should never be neglected It is also easy |
to arrange to drink the hot water before re- |
tiring, which is the second time in import
ance. These two pints will suffice for those |
who cannot take the others. The diet, how
ever, is different matter, depending en-
tirely upon the individual will.
Those who are not following the Salisbury
system for the recovery Of health, but
simply for the reduction of weight, should
adhere as strictly as possible to the diet
until they have lost at least 20 pounds, or as
many as they desire to be rid Of After
that they may advance to what is called the
'two-thirds diet" that is, two mouthfuls of
animal to one of vegetable food. I append
the directions for the "two-thirds or normal
diet" as prepared by DR.. j. H. Salisbury
for the instruction of patients:
Measure the Food by the Eye.
Let all meals consist of two-thirds animal
food and one-third vegetable food The
proportions are by bulk, to be measured by
the eye, broiled steak and ordinary baked
potato being the best data for making al
1owances for articles having lesser density
or more water. What mean is that you
could take, for example, without exceeding
the one-third, larger apparent bulk Of
boiled rice than you could Of baked potato,
on account of the separation of the rice
grains and the water they have absorbed.