Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-14
TRYING TO GET LEAN.
Celia Logan Relates Her Experiences
With Obesity Remedies.
GAINED FIFTEEN POUNDS ON ONE,
Effects Of $50 Pills Taken on Queen lisa
bella's Recommendation.
A FAT DOCTOR WHO GOT TOO THIN
WRITTEN FOR THE p1srAroH.l

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''obesity cure" within my knowledge is ab-
stinence from certain articles of fat-forming
food. Anti-fat doctors advertise that no
dieting is required, but I have never known
any so-called cure without its accompanying
diet card, every .one of which I have pre-
served and given to the reader as received
it. My experience goes to show that corpu-
lence can only be permanently removed by
thorough change of life and diet, assisted
by continuous exercise.
There is vast difference Of opinion
among physicians as to the manner in
| which this dietetic regimen should be con-
Quoted. The worst of all methods is the
starvation treatment, demonstrating aside
| the deprivation and suffering-while we
| starve we lose albumen, which is the very
principle of life, the principal element OF
| the blood, and muscles at the same time that
we lose fat. This brings about q poverty OF
blood d-anemia-which may be carried SO
| far as to seriously injure the health and
even endanger life. That is the case with
the old-time Banting corpulence cure More
| than any otherT know it induces anamia,
which requires an immediate compensation,
and consequently speedy restitution OF the
| tion was inaugurated. Thus by these starv-
alton processes the patient loses his fat, but
| regalns 1t as soon as he stops fasting.
The System of Ebstein.
Any treatment which is so hard that it
can be followed only short time is to be
| rejected as worthless. The great question
| is what nourishment will best sustain life
| and reduce fat at the same time? A German
,>hvcioiop Ehcfain hu mama fhnuOht he had
solved this difficulty, and few years ago
gave his views to the world in o little
pamphlet entitled "Corpulence and Its
Treatment. The following regimen is that
by which he claimed to have removed the
superfuous fat of his patients. 1
Breakfast--one large cup of black tea,
without milk and sugar; about two ounces
| ter. Time-In summer, $50; in winter, 7:3O
Am.
Dinner (about 2 P. M.)-Soup with bone
marrow occasionally, four to six ounces of
especially fat meat; plenty of vegetables,
cabbage, and, most of all, legumes (peas,
| beans). Beets, carrots and turnips were on
account OF the sugar they contain almost
| totally excluded, potatoes entirely. After
dinner little fresh fruit, occasionally some
| salad or stewed fruit, but without sugar.
| light white wine. Soon after dinner large
milk
Supper (between and P. M)-In winter
| regularly and in summer occasionally, an
| other large cup of tea without any sugar OF
milk. One egg, or some small plate of fat
.. 1r or fresb ounces
| white bread, with plenty of butter, and oc-
| casionally little cheese and little fresh
| fruit
Permitted Plenty of Butter. ,
The "plenty of butter" clause struck the
| fancy of adipose America. Plenty, mind
you; not little, but plenty-all you wanted,
in short. This was on the theory that fat
does not make fat. Hitherto the popular
belief was that fat does make fat. Further
more, the Ebsteinites were allowed all sorts
| of delicious fat things, like salmon, liver
| pate, sauces, soups and gravy. Only q few
sweet things, like sugar, were forbidden.
| Lured by the light of "plenty of butter"
ceased to repine because there was too much
of me exclaiming, with Falstaff: ga plague
Of signing and griefl 1t blows man up
| like a bladder
| weighed, and then Ebsteined fora week,
and weighed again. had gained exactly
five pounds. Plenty of butter and five
pounds of grease; Next week the same,
and the next. Plenty of butter and 10
pounds more fat on my overburdened bones
In my righteous wrath and just indignation
I put Herr Ebstein's obesity book into the
fire. Plenty of butter, indeed! Why,
was so disguised that did not for o long
time after endeavor to interfere with my
fat, but Just let it have Its own sweet will
with me. I swore off obesity cures-until
the next time.
The System That Cured Bismarck.
That time came when DR.. j. w. Gibbs, of
New York, introduced into his country the
celebrated Schwenninger cure for corpu-
lence. It will be remembered that Schwen-
ninger was an obcure doctor practicing in
Berlin, where he sprang into fame by re-
ducing Prince Bismarck from 246 pounds
down to 1856 pounds His secret was the
utmost possible abstinence from all fluids
Drinking anything was forbidden for one
hour previous to and during meals, and for
one hour afterward To one always accus-
toned to drink coffee, tea or water at meals
the Schwenninger prohibition is torture un-
til it becomes a habit. I learned that which
I have stated in former article as physi-
illogical fact, that hunger is more easily
borne than thirst. In this treatment, as in
all others, certain secret medicine was
given.
DR.. Gibbs refused to administer this in
nv case, considering it too powerful for a
weakened constitution, as it was so potent |
that only two drops of it were taken at a
time Some restrictions as to eating were |
imposed upon Schwenninger patients. I ap-
pend the dietary card 1t will be observed |
that slight, bitter beer" is allowed:
MAY EAr-Lean mutton and beef, veal, |
lamb, tongue, sweetbread, soups (not thick |
ened), beef tea and broths, poultry, game, |
eggs, fish, cheese, bread lin moderation), |
greens, spinach, water cress, mustard and |
cress, lettuce, asparagus, celery, radishes, |
French beans, green peas, Brussels sprouts, |
cabbage, caulifower. broccoli, sea kale, |
onions, jellies mot sweetened), fresh frui5 |
lin moderation, and not without sugar and |
cream) pickles.
MAY NOT EAT-Fat bacon and ham, fat of |
meat, butter, creams, sugar, potatoes, pars- |
nips carrots, beetroot, rice, arrow root, sago, |
tapioca, maccaroni, ,vermicelli ,semolina, GUS |
tard, pastry and pudding of all kinds, sweet |
cakes, nuts of all kinds.
MAY DR1NK-Tea, coffee, cocoa (from nibs, |
with milk, but without sugar or creamy, dry |
wines of all kinds lin moderation), brandy,
whisky, gin lin moderation, without sugar., |