Corpulence and its treatment on physiological principles / by Wilhelm Ebstein.

  • Ebstein, Wilhelm, 1836-1912.
Date:
1887
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Credit: Corpulence and its treatment on physiological principles / by Wilhelm Ebstein. 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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    GENESIS OF FAT. of the vertebrate animals as a special organ, which is in no way to be referred to the connective tissue, but which must be regarded as a specially con- structed tissue with a separate and well characterised system of blood vessels and an independent trans- elementation resulting in fat. Flemming also has certainly argued for a definite disposition of the vessels for the localities where fat is physiologically accumulated, describing them as small localised foci always exclusively following separate circuits of anastomosis of the small vessels. This disposition consists, according to him, of a sufficiently long local expansion of the vessels. But Flemming does not regard the “fatty tissue” as a special organ, and in fact carefully avoids this expression. Apart, however, from this divergence of views, all observers are still of accord that every connective tissue cell may under certain conditions be trans- formed to an adipose cell. Even loldt differs from other observers only in as much as he does not accept such a transformation under strictly physio- logical conditions, regarding the reception of fat in an ordinary connective tissue cell either as a morbid symptom, or as one coming within the conception of the fattening process. Toldt by no means assumes what some authors have made him say, that pre- cisely in the case of the corpulent the “fatty tissue” has from the first been deposited by special ex- pansion from its seat, but holds with all others that