Fat and blood : and how to make them / by S. Weir Mitchell.

Date:
1878
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Credit: Fat and blood : and how to make them / by S. Weir Mitchell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    duty to learn the reasons for this striking symptom. It has also, in my view of it, a collateral value of great import, because it is almost au invariable rule that rapid thinning is accompanied with more or less ansemia, and it is rare to 3ee a person steadily gaining fat after any pathological reduction of weight without a corresponding gain in amount and quality of blood. We too rarely reflect that the blood thins with the decrease of the tissues and enriches as they increase. Before entering into this question further, I shall ask attention to some points connected with the nor- mal fat of the human body ; aiid, taking for granted, here and elsewhere, that my readers are well enough aware of the physiological value and uses of the adipose tissues, I shall continue to look at the matter chiefly from a clinical point of view. When in any individual the weight varies rapidly or slowly, it is nearly always due, for the most part, to a change in the amount of adipose tissue stored away in the meshes of the areolar tissue. Almost any grave change for the worse in health is at once betrayed in most people by a loss of fat, and this is readily seen in the altered forms of the face, which, because it is the always visible and in outline the most irregular part of the body, shows first and most plainly the loss or gain of tissue. Fatty matter
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