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Oh! that the faculty would look deeper into and make themselves better acquainted with the crying evil of obesity—that dreadful tormenting parasite on health and comfort. Their fellow men might not descend into early premature graves, as I believe many do, from what is termed apoplexy, and certainly would not, during their sojourn on earth, endure so much bodily and consequently mental infirmity.
Corpulence, though giving no actual pain, as it appears to me, must naturally press with undue violence upon the bodily viscera, driving one part upon another, and stopping the free action of all. I am sure it did in my particular case, and the result of my experience is briefly as follows:—
I have not felt so well as now for the last
twenty years.
Have suffered no inconvenience whatever in
the probational remedy.
Am reduced many inches in bulk, and 35 lbs.
in weight in thirty-eight weeks.
Come down stairs forward naturally, with
perfect ease.
