Kallos : a treatise on the scientific culture of personal beauty and the cure of ugliness / by a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Date:
1883
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Credit: Kallos : a treatise on the scientific culture of personal beauty and the cure of ugliness / by a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ]58 'This plan leads to an exctillent night's rest, •with from six to eight hours' sound sleep.' Banting wisely says, ' I do not )-ecommend eveiy corpulent man to rush headlong into such a change of diet {certainly not), but to act advisedly and ijfter full consultation with a physician.' He sums up the effects of this diet on himself as follows :— * I have not felt better in health than now for the last twenty-six years. ' Have suffered no inconvenience whatever in the probational remedy or since. ' Am reduced nearly thirteen inches in bulk, and fifty pounds in weight. ' Can perform every necessary ofEce for myself. ' The vimbilical rupture is cured. ' My sight and hearing are surprising at my age.* ' My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.' Poor Mr. Banting, who appears to have been a most amiable, kind, and pious man, introduced his system, or rather Harvey's, in a pamphlet pub- lished just twenty years ago, and almost at once had the gratification of seeing it create an astonish- ing sensation both at home and abroad. Very speedily a new verb was invented, and stout peojile found themselves asked the question, 'Do j'ou bant 1' Numerous living proofs of the success of Banting's system began to appear everywhere. » About 66.