A visit to the Reknaes Hospital for Lepers at Molde, Norway ; Notes on the successful treatment of obesity / William Allan Jamieson.
- William Allan Jamieson
- Date:
- 1891
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A visit to the Reknaes Hospital for Lepers at Molde, Norway ; Notes on the successful treatment of obesity / William Allan Jamieson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![SUCCESSFUL NOTES ON THE TREATMENT OF OBESITY. The raison d'etre of this brochure requires a word of explana- tion, since I make no claim to any special acquaintance with the measures best suited for the reduction of embonpoint either in men or women. My friend of more than twenty years' standing, Dr Turnbull of Coldstream, had invited me to spend a couple of days under his most hospitable roof. I had not failed to observe for some time past that there was a distinct process of shrinkage in bulk going on in Dr Turnbull, and had indeed watched the diminution with no small degree of anxiety. When, however, I quoted Sir Douglas Maclagan's well-known lines— Gvridmaii, are thae some borrowed claes, An' are your ain awantin' ] Or ha'e ye fa'n awa frae these ? Is this the wark o' Bantin' 1 Dr Turnbull assured me that there was no ground for concern on his account. He had tried Mr Banting's plan in former years, but it did not suit him. He certainly did get thinner, but his health, his spirits, and his enjoyment of existence on the convex surface of this little planet all failed, and he felt himself, and his friends feared even more strongly, that if the procedure were to be per- sisted iji for any time, his premature departure into the unknown was inevitable. He had now, he informed me, fallen on a much more thorough method, one which while it was steadily decreasing his weight, was at the same time rendering him more active, and increasing his zest for life. He told me that many of those who had seen the improvement had urged him to publish the details of the system which had done so much for him, but he had an invin- cible objection to appear in print. He offered, notwithstanding, to supply me with notes of the plan, if I would prepare them for insertion in the Edinbiorcjli Mecliccd Journal. As will be seen from what follows, given almost in Dr Turnbull's own language, another besides himself has already benefited.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21454899_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
