Corpulence, or, Excess of fat during pregnancy : a letter to Dr. Lee / by Thomas King Chambers.
- Thomas King Chambers
- Date:
- 1852
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Corpulence, or, Excess of fat during pregnancy : a letter to Dr. Lee / by Thomas King Chambers. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![]8 amiiii is thereby augmented in quantity. I doubt if this be the case; but I am quite sure that the growth of fat is promoted. In addition to this discipline, I have no hesitation in employing Liquor Potassae in large doses, beginning with siss, and mounting up to siij, or half an ounce in the day I have notes of the case of a young woman whom I saw with Dr. Blakely Brown, that well illustrate the advantage derivable from the medicine. She was very stout, weighing during the second month of her pregnancy, twelve stone one lb., though only five feet in height. During her former pregnancies she had always increased very much, and had suffered greatly from dyspnoea; and after parturition, had been obli- ged to wean her child on account of puerperal insanity. She was ordered sj of Liquor Potassse three times a day, while strict abstinence from unnecessary drink and more exercise than usual were recommended. She did not adhere quite strictly to rules, but still she had in the fourth month gained only three pounds in weight. She afterwards became more observant, and 1 be- lieve took the alkali regularly. I last saw her six months after her confinement, when she was only a few ounces over ten stone, being twenty eight pounds less than when she first came to me: she had been enabled to continue nursing](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22350044_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
