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
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.
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![may be usually found containing nuclei; but in the healthy panniculm adipoms or the mesentery of the adultj they cannot be detected, even by squeezing out the fat and examining the empty membrane. It is possible that, whei] full of fat, the vesicle may contain a nucleus, hidden by the highly refractive semi-fluid secretion; or that it may be destroyed by the violent process of compression. And this view receives confirmation from the fact, that in emaciated subjects, and those affected by chronic anasarca, a nucleiform body may be found in many vesicles.* The same appearance, also, is observed in fatty tumors, which are an instance of true hyper- trophy of adipose tissue, from some unknown cause confined to one spot. In them the nucleated vesicles may be seen mixed up with others non- nucleated, and filled in various degrees with their secretion. Yet these tumors are active and growing, and we can hardly suppose that any of their vesicles are effete or emaciated. In this condition the en- veloping membrane is distended with water, and the fat floats in a yellow globule in the centre, leaving a free space between itself and the wall, and ena- bhng us to examine the latter more accurately. This question will become of more impartance when we are better acquainted with the signification * KoUiker, in Siebold and KoUiker’s “ Zcitsclirift fiir wissenschaftlichcn Zoologic,” 1850.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28739504_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
