The Topeka State Journal

CURE FOR OBESITY.
Wonderful Results Claimed for Use of Palladium in Reduction of Flesh.

There are few more baffling things with which a physician has to deal than a tendency to obesity. A non-fat-producing diet will often work wonders. But sometimes it does not, and there are a great number of people who will not have their table enjoyments ruthlessly cut down. Obesity means simply a low oxygen supply to the tissues, or rather lowered power of combustion. Literally the fat does not burn. In many cases this may amount practically to a disease and results in mountains of fat equally distressing to wear or to see. For people so afflicted a cure of remarkable simplicity has recently been found.

This is simply a subcutaneous injection of solutions of colloidal palladium. Palladium is one of the rare metals of the platinum group, and may be reduced to a powder of remarkable fineness, which possesses very high oxidizing powers.

When the metal is pulverized under water it will form a thin, gluelike solution, and when this is injected into tissues it raises the powers of the body to burn the fat in a remarkable way.

This must be done with circumspection, however, because in very fat people the heart works under a condition of strain; and if this strain is suddenly taken off, serious consequences may follow. The reduction of flesh, therefore, should be slow and with careful attention to the heart action. Under this condition it brings relief to a very real affliction.—Collier's Weekly.