SYSTEM OF REDUCING FLESH.
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CHAPTER XVII.
- The Banting System.
- A Quaint Author.
- Trials of Corpulency.
- Result of Living on Sixpence a Day.
- Indifference of Doctors.
- A Wise Surgeon.
- Relation of Glucose to Obesity.
- Diet for Stout People.
- No Starch, no Sugar.
- Losing Flesh at the Rate of a Pound a Week.
- "Human Beans."
- Humors of Banting's Tract.
- His Gratitude.
- Honors to Dr. Harvey.
- One Day with Dives, the Next with Lazarus.
- Bromide of Ammonia.
Request is often made for the details of Mr. Banting's system of reducing flesh. The popular idea of the writer, whose modest pamphlet has linked his name with the system he observed, is very like the caricature of the dry modern savant. The severe scientist who keeps his child for years without fire or clothes to demonstrate the superiority of human beings to cold, or who throws a new-born baby into a tub of water to prove that the race can swim by nature, should not be mentioned on
