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Bt WILLIAM BANTING.
THIRD EDITION.
LONDON":
PUBLISHED BY HAERISON, 59, PALL MALT^
Bookseller to the Queen and H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.
1864.
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PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION.
Kensington,
Decemher, 1S63.
This letter is respectfully dedicated to the Public
W. B.
COEPULENCE.
the afflicted.
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and comfort.
Although no very great size or weight, still
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were :
—Bread, butter, milk, sugar, beer, and
potatoes, which had been the main (and, I
adopted freely.
B
—
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sugar.
two of claret.
;
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B 2
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briefly as follows :
twenty years.
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tory.
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tormenting an afiliction.'
Maij, 18G3.
ADDENDA.
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authority.
WILLIAM BANTING.
CONCLUDING ADDENDA.
o 2
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STATURE. WEIGHT.
5 feet 1 should be 8 stone 8 or 120 lbs.
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was not.
APPENDIX.
seem harmless.
Some doubts have been expressed in regard
is not.
WILLIAM BANTING.
4pn7, 1864.
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