The age-herald., 1898-05-24
Fashionable Peoples
EattenIna Fad

The worn and weary devotees of fashion at Ne " York who have lost flesh and chs ergy during the past festive season, have found an enterprising medical man. Dr. Carleton Simon, who claims to restore nervous, attenuated, exhausted humanity to health and strength, with certain harmless treatment, in his sanitarium. Dr. simons does not wish to experiment with his patients at their own homes says that he must have absolute control of them to insure the best results.
 New York women and even men are adopting Dr. Simon's methods. which con- sist of the following means, described by an exchange, for the restoring of overtaxed nerves and overstrained bodies to their nor nal condition, which may be of service to Birmingham folk:
 Patients who are taking the fattening cure must spend six weeks in bed. The doctor will tolerate no substitute in the form of an invalid or steamer chairs. ''What you need Is absolute relaxation, and you can get 1t nowhere else" he says. Dur ing the day he insists that the room be as light as sunshine can make it. He be- lieves that sunlight has a rare tonic effect, and wants his patient to have as much as possible during prescribed hours.
 He insists as the primary rule that the patient sleep for nine hours a day; more if possible.
 His food is all of liquid form, and is given every hour. The quantity is increased un- til 1t is two and half times as much as is taken by normal person. It consists of eggs, chocolate and milk.
 Exercise is taken in the form of light massage twice day. This, Dr. Simon be- lieves, is equivalent to six hours active ex- ercise on the part of the person. Even the exercise of plunge bath Is forbidden, and instead there is a sponge bath twice a day.
 The appetite Is stimulated by tonic
 A day in the fattening retreat is one of pleasing monotony to the patient. She is awakened at o'clock and takes the first of her thirteen daily meals, glass of milk. At 7:30 comes the sponge bath and a half hour of light massage, which the inventor of the fattening cure says is an equiva- lent of three hours exercise
 At 8 o'clock there is a bowl of milk punch less the brandy. At o'clock there Is bowl of chocolate; at 9:30 the tonic, which is an appetite-provoker At 10 o'clock more milk punch and at Il another bowl of chocolate.
 Noon another bowl of milk and 12:3O more tonic. At o'clock is served the heartiest meal of the day-punch with more eggs and less milk than usual. At 2 o'clock glass of milk and the services of the masseur at 2:30 more tonic; at chocolate. Four o'clock brings a glass of milk as regularly as the clock strikes. Closely in the wake of o'clock comes more milk, and o'clock 'tea' consists of chocolate At '. and 9 o'clock there is milk punch and at 10 o'clock a tepid sponge bath, a glass of milk, and then flights out"
 The nurse may read to the patient if she deems her capable of enduring the strain, and 1t Is at her option whether the patient may receive visitors for fifteen minutes daily.
 The amount of food is gradually in- creaseduntil, incredible it may seem, the daily regimen is one dozen eggs, eight to ten quarts of milk and two pounds of chocolate day.
 The fattening cure differs from the rest cure in that sunlight is admitted to the sick room and in the enormous amount of food donsuned. The retreat is opened at when the hot weather begins.