was somewhat surprised at the extraordinary and speedy result of my rigid adherence to his advice, because he had long before prescribed the proper dietary system to reduce or cure corpulence, but his patients having hitherto impru­dently slighted his prescriptions, it was only my very strict compliance that completely proved the accuracy of his judgment. My only merit consists in entire obedience to Mr. Harvey’s advice. To him alone belongs all the credit of the remedy. He was the first to lead me on to the true road of health, and I was probably the first of his many patients who kept to it.

I have never assumed the slightest medical knowledge, but, on the contrary, I have assured every correspondent that I was utterly ignorant of the physiological or chemical reasons for the wonderful results produced by the prescribed dietary; nor do I come before the public now with any pre­tensions whatever to such knowledge, but simply to offer my five past years’ experience in confirmation of my original observations upon the great fact, backed by the experience of numerous correspondents in all classes of society, male and female, in the hope that the evidence which I have col­lected may induce medical and scientific men to promote a still wider knowledge of this important truth, “that change of diet is frequently necessary in advancing and advanced Isle to secure good bodily health and comfort, particularly to the corpu­lent and obese.”

It was unfortunate, and doubtless detrimental, in the early stages of my crusade against Corpulence, that theo­retical writers in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, and other influential periodicals, should have dwelt so strongly upon my four meals a day, presuming they were four heavy meals. No part of my pamphlet states this. Since attaining man­hood I have been rather remarkable for the moderation of my meals, and I very much doubt if any man, in sound health., and actively occupied, has consumed less in the course of the twenty-four hours. I am thoroughly convinced, that it is

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