BY WILLIAM BANTING.
FIFTH EDITION WITH ADDENDAS,
AND REMARKS BY MR. HARVEY, F.R.C.S.
NEW-YORK:
MOHUN & EBBS,
Booksellers, Publishers & Importers.
1865.
This letter is respectfully dedicated to the Public simply and entirely from an earnest desire to confer a benefit on my fellow creatures.
W. B.
CORPULENCE.
Of all the parasites that affect humanity I do not know of, nor can I imagine any more distressing than that of Obesity, and having just emerged from a very long probation in this affliction, I am desirous of circulating my humble knowledge and experience for the benefit of my fellow man, with an earnest hope it may lead to the same comfort and happiness I now feel under the extraordinary change—which might almost be termed miraculous had it not been accomplished by the most simple common sense means.