Category: Health & Medicine
Hernia 9 Umbilical Hernia 10 Medical Theories 14 Medical Specialism 16 Periodic Headache 17 Effect of loss of blood 18 Apoplexy 19 Sanguineous Apoplex 20 Pulmonary Affections 21 Fatty Liver 22 Abdominal Dropsy 23 Hepatic Obstruction 24 Broussais, his Theory 25 Signs of Hepatic...
In the month of August, 1849, M. Guénaud, a master baker, still residing in the Rue St. Martin, Paris, presented the following appearance:--Age, twenty-eight years; height, four...
10. CHAPTER IV.Physical beauty, like virtue, is a type to which all approximate in different degrees, and which, when not wholly departed from, admits the possessor among the number of the acc...
9. CHAPTER III.The human skin is capable of great extension. It may be distended to four times its size, yet is not endowed with much elasticity. On this account we may notice, in very fat per...
11. CHAPTER V.It can scarcely be necessary that I should record all the several methods which have been proposed and adopted for the reduction of obesity; yet, lest I should be charged with i...
14. CHAPTER VIII.With few exceptions, the corpulent, both male and female, drink a great deal with their meals; and I am more and more convinced, by daily experience, that the large amount of fl...
7. CHAPTER I.The physician has a twofold duty to perform. He is called upon not merely to alleviate pain, and to undertake the cure of disease, but he is, moreover, required to lay down rule...
13. CHAPTER VII.It is to be borne in mind, that in dividing alimentary matter into two kinds--one fitted to develop fat, and the other having an opposite tendency--my object is merely to suit t...
8. CHAPTER II.Sterility must be numbered among the infirmities induced by excessive corpulence. This is a well attested fact in reference to the human species, and also as to the females of t...
4. CHAPTER VI.Cases of Reduction of Corpulence 70 Case of Guénaud 71 Increased Muscular Power 73 Unimpeded Respiration 74 Diet 75 Case of Widow Rollin 76 Case of Chauvin 77 Case of Roberts 78...
2. CHAPTER IV.Quantity of Fat 35 Case in Java 36 Appearance of the Obese 37 Pallor 38 Varicose Veins 40 Somnolence 41 Effects of Exercise 43 Pre-disposition to Fat 44 Intestinal Tract 46 Comp...
1. CHAPTER III.Hernia 9 Umbilical Hernia 10 Medical Theories 14 Medical Specialism 16 Periodic Headache 17 Effect of loss of blood 18 Apoplexy 19 Sanguineous Apoplex 20 Pulmonary Affections 21...
3. CHAPTER V.Treatment of Obesity 60 Delarding 61 Compulsory Abstinence 62 Use of Acids 63 Use of Iodine 64 Similarity of Fat and Water 65 Alkalis 66 Bi-Carbonate of Soda 67 Alkalis alone no...
5. CHAPTER VII.6. CHAPTER VIII.