Observations on fatty heart : comprising remarks on the morbid anatomy, symptoms and diagnosis, prognosis etiology and treatment, an essay / by Henry Kennedy.

  • Kennedy, Henry, 1811-
Date:
1880
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    and the second as the same condition, confined to the heart alone. It is familiar to all that at and after middle life a number of persons are liable to get stouter than they had previously been—in other words, fat begins to be deposited in different parts of the frame, and the individual will weigh more than he did in earlier life. It would seem as if this tendency were more common in men than women, though the latter are by no means exempt from it, and more particularly after the cessation of the menses. But this tendency to grow fat, though general in its way, presents some points which are well worthy of observation; and as I consider they have not been sufficiently noticed, and have besides a direct bearing on my subject, I would call attention to them here. Thus, while the tendency shows itself over the whole frame, still, on closer observation, it will be found that the fat deposits itself much more in one region than another. In one it will be the thorax and arms, in another the abdomen, and in either it may be the parietes separately or the internal organs. I have often seen the parietes but slightly fatty, whilst the internal parts were literally loaded; and, vice versa, the parietes have exhibited much fatty deposit, and the internal parts very much less. This point has been de- scribed by others. The omentum alone, says Cham- bers, may be loaded with fat; and in Quain's cele- brated paper—one to which I shall often have to refer— I find the following expressions used: Body very fat} limbs less so; omentum loaded with fat; abdomen fat, and so on; and in numerous instances on record it