BISMARK AND HIS OBESITY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6996, 19 April 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

BISMARK AND HIS OBESITY.

Stottt people would no doubt be glad to have further information as to the method by which Prince Biamark has at last got rid of his superfluous flesh. For a dozen years ,r the man of blood and iron" has been afflicted with all sorts of maladies, more or less directly traceable to his excessive corpulence. He passed sleepless nights and could hardly walk a couple of hundred yards without fatigue. Doctor after doctor was called- in ; but "physicians were in vain." At last, however, he has found his saviour. Count William Bismarck, the Prince's second son, was, like his father, long troubled with obesity. One happy day a literary friend introduced to him a certain Dr. Schweninger, a Bavarian, who claimed to have hit upon a regimen which was an infallible cure for fatness. Count William placed himself unreservedly in the hands of the Herr Doctor, and in a few weeks had lost his supei'■fluous bulk. Thereupoh Dr. Schwenningcr was summoned to the Chancellor, whom .he undertook to cure as he had cured his son. At tlie end of Beven or eight weeks Prince Bismarck weighed sixty pounds lesß and-lie now looks upon himself as cured. ■ He sleeps long and tranquilly ; takes long walks which would fatigue a young man : and, after ten year-'' .-ibseuce from the saddle, he is now able ■ "ride. All this,is. prodigions but what is Dr. SchwenniDger'a mysterious i regimen ? .