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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    quire large amounts of adipose matter without any corresponding loss or gain in vigor, and this fact per- haps is related in some way to the enormous outside demands made by her peculiar physiological pro- cesses. Such gain in weight is a common accom- paniment of child-bearing, while nursing in some involves enormous falling away, and its cessation a renewal of fat as speedy. I have also found that in many women who are not perfectly well there is a notable loss of weight at every menstrual period, and a marked gain between these times. How much influence the season has, is not as yet well understood, but in our own climate, with its great extremes, there are some interesting facts in this connection. The wealthy classes are with us in summer placed in the best circumstances for increase in flesh, because it is not only their season of least work, mental and physical, but because they are then for the most part living in the country under circumstances favorable to aj)petite and to exercise. Owing to these fortunate conditions members of the class in question are apt to gain weight in summer, although many persons, as I know, follow the general rule and lose weight. But if we deal with the mass of men who are hard worked, physically, and unable to leave the towns, we shall probably find that they