this subject a specialty and embodied the labors of a life in it had been obtained and published by some of the scientific associations there could scarcely be such ignorance of the most remarkable and interesting facts in natural history as System. on ' Fat People' deprecatory of a plan pursued by ' Bantam' for the reduction of their adiposity and in praise of and re commending what purports to be a different and much better system for effecting the same purpose. This is not the first time I have read articles of a similar purport from the same authority. Banting of Kensington England who has published several editions of a 'Letter on Corpulence' in which he narrates the means employed by him to rid himself of a great excess of bulk of person I with your permission beg to offer a few words in reply. It is to be particularly noted that in the article referred to although a ' fleshy gentleman ' is spoken of who ' began to Bantamize ' as well as 'Bantam's plan for getting lean' no explanation or description whatever of the ' plan ' is given ; the inference of course is that it is entirely different from the one recommended for the same purpose by the writer of the article. ' The very best and safest way to get rid of fat is to work it off; this may be aided by eating food which contains a large amount of nitrogen and a small amount of carbon. Nitrogenous food is that which gives strength power to but after all the great reliance should be on exercise and work in the open air.' (The italics are mine.) Mr. Banting says : ' I have proved very satisfactorily that my greatest dietetic enemy was and is sugar and saccharine elements. I have as certained by repeated experiments that five ounces of sugar distributed equally over seven days augment my weight nearly one pound by the end of that short period.'—' I very seldom take any butter ; certainly not a pound in a year.' ' I seldom take milk.'—' I occasionally eat a potato with my dinner possibly to the extent of one po
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