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

  • Kennedy, Henry (Of Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale)
Date:
1880
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Credit: Observations on fatty heart : comprising remarks on the morbid anatomy, symptoms and diagnosis, prognosis etiology and treatment, an essay / by Henry Kennedy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    phases of the gouty poison may be seen in every aspect. That a number of persons have this poison in them who never show gout I take to be certain, and most import- ant it Is to recognise it. There will be occasion to bring this part of my subject under notice again. When speaking of the use of too much food as a cause of obesity, I should probably have noticed the taking of drinks, and more particularly what are known as strong drinks. That these latter have a powerful tendency to make people bloated and fat, admits of no doubt. Malt drink of every kind acts specially so, and this is one of the reasons why so many Englishmen present a full habit of body, for in England the use of malt drink is very much more general than with us. These drinks seem to act in pi-oportion with the quantity of nutritive material they contain. At the same time we must not overlook the fact that any fluid, even water, if taken in excess, ■ has a tendency to render the person bloated. There can, I think, be no doubt that parties who drink whiskey to excess have, during part of their career at least, a tendency to get fat, and this is shown to impli- cate the heart by the presence of fatty growth. It is strange with these facts before us that some are still found to assert that strona; drinks have no nutritive value. Milk is a fluid which requires a special notice. Many adults use it under the idea that it is quite harmless, whereas it is just the contrary, and in many grown persons engenders a state of the system always border- ing on disease, and frequently running into it. Gout is a common result of its use, together with a bloated