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New Zealand Mail, Issue 422, 13 March 1880, Page 26

medical ALLAN'S ANTI-FAT (Trade Mark "Anti-Fat," registered) is the celebrated American remedy for corpulency. It is purely vegetable, being a compound concentrated fluid extract of sea lichens, and is perfectly harmless. No particular change of diet required. Will reduce a fat person from 21b to 51b a week. It acts upon the food in the stomach, preventing its conversion into fat. " Corpulency is not only a disease of itself, but the harbinger of others," wrote Hippocrates 2000 years ago, and what was true then, is no less so to-day. The consequences of obesity are often more serious than is generally supposed. The thick accumulations of fat in the tissues mechanically oppress adjacent organs, thereby producing dyspnoea (shortness of breath) and disturbances in the circulation, characterised by palpitation of the heart, fainting, determination of blood to the brain, derangements of the stomach, liver, kidneys, uterus. &c. In consequence of the congestion of the stomach, the patient becomes dyspeptic, and is tormented with flatulency, acidity of the stomach, and eructations. The impediments to a free circulation of the blood, and the increased pressure of the masses of fat throughout the system on the blood vessels, produce a determination of blood to the brain, whence arise somnolency, torpor of the mental and physical functions, and not unfrequently apoplexy. Obesity is undoubtedly a not infrequent cause of fatty degeneration of the heart and liver. Speaking of the heart, a late author says : —"Some of the instances of sudden death of fat people may be reasonably ascribed to a rupture of the organ in this weakened state." fis absolutely harmless. "We . are daily consulted by letter and otherwise by those who desire to know if the ANTI-FAT is truly a harmless medicine, to which inquiries we can, from our large observation, most sincerely and positively answer in the affirmative, but various other questions are propounded by those who, from having regarded their obesity an indication of health, are fearful of injurious effects from a remedy known to reduce corpulency. One wants to know "if the fat is removed, will the skin not be wrinkled or furrowed ?" A knowledge of the anatomy of the human skin, and of its wonderful contractile nature, is only necessary to convince any person who might have similar apprehensions that the skin readily adapts itself to a changed habit of body. Not only is the skin not furrowed by a reduction of cor2?ulency, but from the alterative or blood-purifying effects of this medicine the skin when blotched or rough is made more smooth, clear, and beautiful. ALLAN'S ANTI-FAT requires no particular change of diet while using it. Since writing our first little circular treati-~e upon the subject of corpulence many hundreds of cases have come under our personal observation, and in all good results have followed the use of the Anti-Fat. In no case has any unpleasant or injurious effect been produced. Instead of regarding obesity as an abnormal condition, many people have erroneously considered it as an evidence of health, and any agent that reduces fat is therefore at once suspected of being injurious. Starting to reason from the false position that fat is an evidence of health, it is not surprising that they should very naturally fall into the error of supposing that an agent possessing properties capable of reducing corpulency would prove injurious to the health. Keasoning, however, from the rational basis that an undue deposition of fat, constituting obesity, is not a healthy but a morbid condition, it is quite as natural for us to arrive at the opposite conclusion, which is sustained by experience and observation, i.e., that the reduction of fat in cases of corpulency is invariably followed by an improvement of strength, spirits, and physical comforts.

LLAN'S ANTI-FAT must be used perseveringly. - A very extensive observation has convinced us that in the majority of cases the ANTI-FAT must be [ taken from two to three, and in rare cases, even four weeks before the patient will begin to not'ce much reduction of flesh, after which the loss goes on rapidly —generally from three to five pounds a week. To the over-sanguine we desire to say that ALLAN'S ! ANTI-FAT does not possess miraculous power. It's workings are in harmony with Nature's laws. It is one of Nature's remedies. It overcomes the morbid condition of obesity by removing the exciting cause, acting upon the food in the stomach, and preventing the conversion of starch and sugar into fat. As systems vary in their susceptibility to medicines, so some, because the experience of a neighbor, on using one bottle of ANTI-FAT, has not been fully realised, refuse a trial. Is it reasonable to suppose that a condition that has existed for years can be thus easily overcome ? Take a case of dyspepsia, for example, where the functions cf the stomach have become deranged, would any one expect an immediate cure, even though the most effective medicine be employed? Precisely similarly must the cure of this abnormal condition —obesity—be effected. The functions of the stomach are in an abnormal condition, and must be corrected by a gradual process.

LLAN'S ANTI-FAT, endorsed by those eminent L in the medical profession. THOMAS FAIRBANK, M.D., of Windsor, Surgeon to her Majesty the Queen, referring to ANTIFAT in the "British Medical Journal" of June 7, 1879, says: -I gave some of this extract (Fucos "Vesiculosus) to a very corpulent lady, who in three months lost three stones in weight without any change in diet. Since then I have frequently given it for reducing weight depending on the accumulation of adipose tissue, and have never found it fail. I may state that a patient who has been lately taking it as an anti-fat, and who has always suffered very much from rheumatic pains about the body, has been entirely free from such trouble while she has been taking the extract, a fact which she quite independently noted." v LLAN'S ANTI-FAT Reduces a Lady Four Pounds per Week. "Manchester-square, London, Sept. 30, 1879, " The Botanic Medicine Co , Great Russell-street Buildings, London, W.C " Gentlemen, —My mother has used your ANTIFAT for over three months, and has found it to reduce her on the average four pounds per week. She has commended it to several friends.—Yours truly, W. C. Upton." LLAN'S ANTI-FAT Reduces 91bs in Four Weeks. Edward Parrett, Esq , Chemist, of Market-squaie, Winslow, writes the Botanic Medicine Company, under date of June 12, 1879 : " One lady to whom 1 have sold Allan's Anti-Fat has decreased 91bs in four weeks." Herr F. Arnott, of the Elbe, Prussia, writes the Botanic Medicine Company, under date of July 15, 1879 : " I have much pleasure to inform you that by taking six bottles of your ALLAN'S ANTI-FAT I am ten pounds lighter." A LLAN'S ANTI-FAT Reduces 51bs. a Week, " 22, RedcMffe-street South Kensington, S.W., "June 2, 1879. " To the Proprietors of Allan's Anti-Fat. "Gentlemen, —I have tried your vronderful medicine Anti-Fat both in America and this country. Through its use I can thin down at command, losing on an average five pounds p c r week.—Yours respectfully. Harry Braham." LLAN'S ANTI-FAT. Sold by all Chemists. L Trade Mark. "Anti-Fat" (ißegistered), and Pamphlet, entitled " How to Get Lean Without Starvation" (Copyright) All infringers will be promptly prosecuted. Send stamps fur Pamphlet. • ADDRESS HOTANIC MEDICINE COMPANY GREAT RUSSELL-STKEET BUILDINGS, LONDON, W.C. SOLD BY ALL CHEMISTS, and WHOLESALE by MEBSRS KEMPTHORNE, PROSSER, AND CO.'S New Zealand Drug Company, Wellingon,£Dunedin, Aucktand.gand.Christchuroh