Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-08-03
TO REDUCE THE WEIGHT.

Dlet Tor Persons Overburdened With Fle.h
ana women who suffer from
Overweight and who have worried with
score OF unsatisfactory expedients
promised to reduce uncomfortable
a. iposity' Will surely be interested in
the methods of treatment which were
enPloyed In the case of the late Sena-
sor STANFORD; treatment that would
Prooaoiy have been completely success
.ui nad not the fatty degeneration of
me heart gone beyond the stage where
ieletlc influences were of any avail.
none OF the known varieties of medi-
cine are really palatable, and all the
courses OF treatment so far discovered
are more or less irksome to those whose
heaith needs repairs, and the course
winch the senator was religiously
adhering to when he died was most
dlstasteful to him. Fried hashed
beef, three times q day. washed down
with water that was hot as drinka BILE
water can be. was the only food that
entered the sc Hator's stomach for the
last seven weeks of his life. This
change of regimen was one against
whlch the patient inwardly rebeled
he had lived as he pleased and
ne pleased to live well-but he had
placed himself in the hands of a ply
stefan who was an expert in the pro-
Iongation of threatened mems DAYS,
and was faithful to the instructions
given Tempted continually to indulge
IN the food on which others who sat at
his table Toasted, the senator consumed
only the moderate quantity of finely
chopped beef. fried until cooked
nd ho
glass of hot water. The primary re-
suit of this diet was the loss of thirty
one pounds of flesh in fifty DAYS and
the departure of that apoplectic florid-
ity which had for the past two or
three years been one of the sem
ator's most marked facial character
lstics- How much longer the treat
ment would have been continued. and
what the ultimate results might have
been in this particular case can not be
guessed, for the fatty degeneration of
the heart suddenly reached the point
of fatality and the dieting came to an
end. Medical experience would sug-
Rest, though, that everything would
have been well had the most vital of
organs been unaffected; that the mere
bulk could easily have been removed
questionable whether the speed of re-
duction was not too great. and, al
though in the case under discussion
the rate probably had nothing to do
with the decease, still the best of the
authorities are satisfied that the loss
exceeding ten pounds a month is
too much of a drain upon ordi-
nary vitality. The principle of the
reduction is easily understood.
Lean meat being heterogeneous,
forms muscle and not fat. Lean
meat eaten by a very lean person would
be difficult of assimilation. for fat is
necessary to the aSsimilative process.
but when swallowed by one who is
plentIfully supplied with fat the COM
bination supports life and. of course,
diminishes the encumbering tissue con-
siderably.
The usefulness of hot water as an
anti-dyspeptic beverage has long been
asserted; it helps digestion as no other
perfectly harmless fluid can. Food
that is starchy or fat is digested in the
small intestines, but lean meat dis
tributes it's good qualities from the
stomach. and in that work sufficiencv
: of hot water materially assists the fire.
quently ineffective gastric juice. AL
together the lean meat remedy" seems
to be the best yet known for the re-
moval of supertiuous fat: and it has the
advantages also of being cheap and
easy of application.-Washin Star