Corpulence; or, excess of fat in the human body: its relations to chemistry and physiology, its bearing on other diseases and the value of humn life, and its indications of treatment. With an appendix on emaciation / By Thomas King Chambers.

  • Chambers, Thomas King, 1818-1889.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Corpulence; or, excess of fat in the human body: its relations to chemistry and physiology, its bearing on other diseases and the value of humn life, and its indications of treatment. With an appendix on emaciation / By Thomas King Chambers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE READER. /: ... , v ■ J The substance of this little treatise was confained in a course of lectures, which, in the spring of the present year, I delivered to the College of Phy- sicians as Gulstonian Lecturer. I selected the subject because it was one which had often inte- rested me as a physician, and which, from the number of important scientific questions involved in it, appeared likely to attract the attention of a professional auditory to even an inexperienced speaker. I am told that my choice was a fortunate one, and have been requested by many friends who did, and many who did not hear me, to give them an opportunity of criticizing what I said, more at their ease than the rather incommodious benches of our College Theatre allow. The manuscript notes were sent to the “ Lancet,” and I intended from the type put up by the printers of that periodi- cal to have had copies struck off for those who