Fat and blood : an essay on the treatment of certain forms of neurasthenia and hysteria / by S. Weir Mitchell.

  • Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914.
Date:
1885
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Credit: Fat and blood : an essay on the treatment of certain forms of neurasthenia and hysteria / by S. Weir Mitchell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of them may account for its undoubted value in lithsemic or gouty states; but, at all events, they point to the need for a more exhaustive study both of this and of other methods of exclusive diet. As regards milk, enough has here been said to act as a guide in its practical use in the class of cases with which we are now concerned; but I may add that it is sometimes useful, as the case progresses, to employ in place of milk, or with it, some one of the various '^ children's foods, such as Kestle's food or that of the Anglo-Swiss Company. Before dealing with the treatment of the anae- mic and feeble and more or less wasted invalids who require treatment by rest and its concomi- tant aids, I desire to say a few words as to the use of rest, milk dietetics, and massage in people who are merely cumbrously loaded with adipose tissues, and also in the very small class of anaemic women who are excessively fat and may or may not be hysterical, but are apt to be feeble and otherwise wretched. Karell has pointed out that on creamless milk diet fat people lose flesh; and this is true; so that sometimes this mode of lessening weight