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I am confident that you will be highly delighted with
the splendid effects of the Tablets at the end of a few
weeks if you follow carefully my instructions and are
prompt and regular in taking the Tablets. I am sending
you herewith printed instructions and rules for diet.
You will note that our suggestion as to what you should
eat, if strictly followed, will not work any hardship,
and that you will never go hungry....
This letter, signed “________ ‘Adviser, Fell Formula Association,’”
was accompanied by a printed circular giving rules as to diet, etc.,
and by a “symptom blank,” to be filled up by the patient in order to
obtain particulars of “the Fell System of Simple Muscular Movements
for Reducing the Weight and Increasing the Strength, in combination
with the ‘Fell’ Reducing Treatment”; it appears from the latter that
particulars of these exercises are only supplied when the 26s. case is
sent for.
A fourth letter dealt with generalities and recommended taking the
reducing treatment in increased quantities, but after an interval a
fifth was received, enclosing a booklet advocating the use of “the
Century Thermal Bath Cabinet,” from which the following are extracts:
... We have strongly recommended the Home Turkish Bath
that it may be used at least once a week as an adjunct
to the Reducing Treatment; hence our affiliation to
the “Century Thermal” Bath Cabinet, Ltd., whose home
cabinet is built on such lines as to render it the best
device extant for taking Hot Air or Vapour Baths.
... in any event, it were better to spend the required
amount, for were the cost as much as £10 in all (it has
but rarely exceeded that) the expense is out of all
proportion to the ultimate benefit.
... with the Fell treatment no case of obesity, in
either sex, can fail to be reduced if assisted with the
regular use of the Hot Air Bath.
Booklets entitled _Corpulence or Obesity. Its causes, results, and
successful treatment: The Treatment of Obesity by the “Fell” Reducing
Treatment_: and _Make Muscle of your Fat_, were also sent at different
times. The following extracts from two of these scarcely appear
consistent:
A Guarantee to Reduce Weight.
It is not our purpose to indulge in empty talk only, or
in unconsequential boasts. We are prepared to, and do,
give a positive guarantee that the Fell Treatment, used
in conjunction with the Muscular System, will reduce
the fat of any person—provided our instructions are
adhered to—in the space of a very few weeks.
Do We Guarantee?
We are frequently asked this question personally and by
letter, and reply emphatically—No, we do not. To say
Yes—would be illogical and certainly demoralising.
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