The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-03
m BE LIKE CASSIUS.
goW A FAMOUS MERCHANT GOT
RID OF ADIPOSE.

ave seemed Eseential-His Methods
Did Not Kill Him.
From the Piftsb,Tg Dispatch.
In 1852 and 1868 l was in London, Eng.
qaylng caught a severe summer cold it
,,used a slight deafness, which alarmed me
n much that sought the advice of a cele-
frsted aurist, Mr.. William Harvey of Soho
,luare My visiting days were similar to
those of an elderly gentleman, with whom
fell into conversation, and being after
wards introduced by Mr.. Harvey, we be-
came well acquainted. The affsble old
Gentleman who helped to beguile the tedious
hours of waiting in medical mans ante
room, was, atterward learned, nearly o6
years of age.
He was very slightly deaf, not tall, and
appeared to me to be of enormous bulk. In
reality he was feet inches in stature and
weighed 202 pounds, a large portion of
which he carried from the chest down ward.
/ Ike an immense balloon Of flesh. am thus
particular n describing him because never
met any one who was personally acquainted
with him, aud because he was at that very
time engaged in writing q pamphlet which
was destined to render him famous. He
was London merchant, by name William
Banting, author of the renowned Letter
on Corpulsnce."
AN OLD SYSTEM IN NEW DRESS.
This little work appeared in England in 1868
end Immediately attained such popularity
that it was translated into almost all living
languages and gained for its writer the
distinction of having his name bestowed
upon bis and any treatment for the reduc-
ton OF aAipose tissue. Not that Benting
was the d1scoverer of the dietetic system
for the release from one of the Oldest
plaques of the human race. The physi-
clans of antiquity gave almost similar in
structions as Banting did for the putting
of of superhuous fat. Hippocrates, 1.-The
father of medicine" born 400 B. O.. recon-
mended exercise in the open air while fast
ing, and no hot baths.
Down to modern times no reduction treat
ment had been of any special value. 1t re-
NAMED for Banting TO give some new-old
information in such a condensed, straight
forward form as to place the 'cure" for
obesity within the reach Of every one af-
ficted with the malady, for that is what it
becomes if left unchecked. Among those
old enough to remember the "Banting sem
saton, Il is generally believed that the
author died shortly after, and IN conseS
quence of his own treatment Such is not
the case He was already an old man
when he began it, born in 1877, and died in
1871 having lived to the age Of rs, and for
nine years after he began his celebrated
treatment
NOW ALMOST OUT OF PRINT.
His Letter on Corpulence" is still con.
sidered an authority upon this subject, but
1t is difficult to obtain being almost out of
most interesting and salient portions Of it.
By way of beginning he says:
II am confident no man l0boring under
obesity can be quite inseusible to the sueers
and remarks OF the cruel and injudicious in
public assemblies, public vehicles or the CT
binary street traffic; nor TO the annoyance
of finding no adequate space IN public as
sembly il he should seek amusement or need
refreshment, aud therefore be naturally
keeps away as much as possible from places
where he is likely to be made the object of
the taunts and remarks of the others.
am as regardless OF public remarks as most
men, but have felt these difficulties and
therefore, avoided such crcumscribed ac-
commodation and notice. and by that means
have been deprived of many advantages to
health and comfort.
Although no very great size or weight,
still | could not stoop to tie my shoe, so to
speak, nor attend to the little offices hui
manity requires, without considerable pain
and difficulty, which only the oorpulent can
understand, | have been compelled to 20
down stairs slowly backward, to save the
jar OF increased weight upon the ankle and
knee joint, and been obliged to puff and
blow with every slight exertion, partlcu-
lsrly that of going up stairs"
TURKISH BATHS WILL NOT DO IT.
About Turkish baths, now much resorted
to by the corpulent, he says: cat tuis
juncture about three years back Turkish
baths became the fashion. and | was ad-
vised to adopt them as remedy. With the
first few found immense benefit in power
nd al Nv fNr oil
lieving l had found the philosophers stone >
pursued them three times a week until
had taken fifty, then less frequently las
began TO fancy, with some reason, that 30
many weakened my constitution, till l had
taken ninety, but never succeeded in losing
more than six pounds weight during the
whole course, and [ gave up the plan as
worthless, though l have full belief in their
cleansing properties, and their value in
colds, rheumatism and many other all
ments."
When | first took course of Turkish
baths in the delusive hope that they would
stay back my rapidly accommodating flesh.
asked the bath attendant If they conduced
more to the increase or to the reduction of
fat.
Yes, mum. she replied
But which?" persisted. "Do they make
you thin or fatf"
They does. mum, both They makes fat
folks thin and thin folks fat"
After many experiments by which Bant-
ing added to rather than lessened his bulk
ne found relief in dietary system furnished
by Mr. Harvey. Strange that an aurist
should effect a cure where SO many physi-
clans had failed. After describing several
Oh his failures, Banting says:
AN ACIDULATED PURGATIvE DRAUGHr.
AT last found the right man, who I'M
hesitatingly said be believed my ailments
were caused principally by corpulence, and
prescribed certain diet-no medicine be-
You'd morning cordial as a corrective
with immense effect and advantage both to
my hearing and the decrease of my corpu-
lency."
My own personal experiments in thu re-
ductlon of my weight extend over period
OF twelve years. Accompanying every So
called obesity cure there was some "cor-
rective," a mysterious draught; cordial,
medicine, pill, powder or tea, the component
parts of which are kept secret from the
patient
The corrective" which Harvey gave
bantlng was an calculated purgative
drought, and that is the aim of them all
though the person supposes the medicine to
De part of the reduction process Banting
goes on TO say:
The items from which l was advised TO
ABSTAIN as much possible were bread, butter,
nllk, sugar, beer and potatoes, which had