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It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased…
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At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further…
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Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in…
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Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order,…
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I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet,…
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My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put…
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I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a…
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For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial…
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I am under obligations to most of those advisers for the pains and interest they took in my case; but only to…
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I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being…
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My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.
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The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great…
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