Letter on corpulence : addressed to the public / by William Banting.

  • Banting, William, 1797-1878.
Date:
1869
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Credit: Letter on corpulence : addressed to the public / by William Banting. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    others who have suffered, as I have done, and whose testi- mony of the efficacy of the remedy confirms my own. Being fond of green peas, I take them daily in the season, and I gain 2 or 3 lbs. in weight as well as some little in bnlk, but I soon lose both when their season is over. For this trespass I quite forgive myself. The subjoined correspondence is only a portion of upwards of 1,800 letters which I have received. There is scarcely one out of the whole which does not breathe a spirit of pure thankfulness and gratitude for the benefits derived from the dietary system, and contain the most flattering encomiums on my character and motives. One or two, indeed, of a totally opposite character have reached me, and I would not have refrained from publishing them, had the writers not thought proper to deprive them of any authority by concealmg their names. I had originally selected a much larger number for publication, but I fear that even these few may be tiresome to some readers, though I have abridged them as far as possible by omitthig personal compliments, and irrelevant matter and enquiries, &c., of little importance to any but the \vriters. They will, however, I believe, be perused with interest by many others, who can select such facts from them as may apply to their own special cases, A great many of these con-espondents—indeed, some of the most interesting—^have granted me full permission to print their names and adcbesses, in verification, and I have no doubt whatever that I could obtain the consent of nearly all to the free publication of their letters; but I consider it quite imnecessary to give more than the number and date of the respective letters, assming the reader that these ex- tracts have been faithfully made, and that I am ready to produce the originals to any person who applies to me in good faith and honesty of purpose to examine still further this very important subject. I could certainly have wished that the crowning proof of the veracity and utihty of my statements had emanated