Corpulence; or, excess of fat in the human body: its relations to chemistry and physiology, its bearing on other diseases and the value of humn life, and its indications of treatment. With an appendix on emaciation / By Thomas King Chambers.

  • Thomas King Chambers
Date:
1850
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Corpulence; or, excess of fat in the human body: its relations to chemistry and physiology, its bearing on other diseases and the value of humn life, and its indications of treatment. With an appendix on emaciation / By Thomas King Chambers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    12/216
    CHAPTER X PAGE Treatment of obesity. How treatment is applicable at different ages. The materials wliicli fonn fat to be excluded from the diet. Amount of food to be taken, and the times. Exei’cise. Sudorifics. Piu’- gatives. Alkahcs. Bleeding. Tonics. Vmegar. Diuretics. Iodine. Conclusion . . • . 123 Table of cases of obese persons 139 APPENDIX ON EMACIATION. Anatomical chai’acters of the fat in emaciated persons, as visible to the naked eye and the mieroscope. Variable emaciation of different parts. Mode in which the fat is disposed of in health, and in disease, viz. by the lungs. Emaciation, however, not so much due to this drain being increased, as to the supply being dhuinished. Tuberculai* cachexia. Consumption without wasting. Hamiover’s specu- lations on the loss of fat in Phthisis. Treatment of Emaciation 147