Fat and blood: and how to make them.

  • Mitchell, Silas Weir.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Fat and blood: and how to make them. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    I broke up tlie association whicii had nearly been fatal to both women, and, confidently promising a cure, carried out my treatment in fall. In three months she went home well and hap})y, greatly i-oproved in looks, her skin clear, her functions regular, and weighing one hundred and thirty-six pounds. It is vain to repeat the relation of such cases, and impossible to put on paper the means for deciding— what is so large a part of success in treatment—the moral methods of obtaining confidence and insuring a childlike acquiescence in every needed measure. Another class of cases will, however, bear some further illustration. We meet with women who are healthy in mind, but who have some chronic pain or some definite malady which does not get well, either because the usual tonics fail, or because their occujmtions in life keep them always in a state of exhaustion. If, by rest, we slow the machinery, and by massage and electricity deprive rest of its evils, we can often obtain cures which are to be had in no other way. This is true of many uterine and some other disorders. Miss B., £Bt. 37, height five feet five inches, weight one hundred and fifteen j^ounds, a school-teacher, without any notable organic disease, had a severe fall,