Part 1. Obesity: The Indications for Reduction Cures

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1. Preface To The American Edition Of Part I. Obesity. The Indications For Reduction CuresFor many years I have been occupied, with my assistants and pupils, in an exhaustive study of the disorders of metabolism and nutrition. The result of this work has been a number of short essays publi...
2. Obesity. The Indications For Reduction CuresIntroductory. Gentlemen: The physician who does not wish to treat his patients according to old-established routine practice, and who does not feel satisfied with prescribing in a purely superficial ...
3. I. Simple Obesity in Otherwise Healthy SubjectsThe most frequent case encountered in practical life is the development of obesity in persons who are altogether healthy. The decision whether or not to advise a reduction cure in cases of this charac...
4. I. Simple Obesity in Otherwise Healthy Subjects. Part 2b. Medium Degrees of Obesity (body weight about 15-25 kilo above the average for the particular age, sex and size of the subject). Cases of this kind are the most frequent ones encountered and lend t...
5. I. Simple Obesity in Otherwise Healthy Subjects. Part 3c. Slight Degrees of Obesity (body weight about 5-15 kilo above the normal average). Cases of this character, provided the patients are otherwise healthy, do not call for reduction treatment; all the...
6. II. The Indications for Reduction Cures in Obesity Complicated with Other DiseasesDiseases of various kinds, from mild functional disorders of important organs to serious anatomic lesions may determine the attitude the physician should take toward the question of reduction cures in...
7. a. Diseases of the Circulatory System - The Indications for Reduction Cures in ObesityThis class of disorders is the most important. Among them I may mention valvular lesions, myocarditis, myodegeneration of the heart, fatty heart or rather heart weakness complicated with obesity, arte...
8. a. Diseases of the Circulatory System - ContinuedThe matter is much more simple and more favorable in regard to the final outcome if the disturbances of compensation are just beginning, regardless of whether they are due to fatty heart (Mast-Fetther...
9. b. Diseases of the Kidneys - The Indications for Reduction Cures in ObesityThe only renal disease that we must consider in this connection is atrophic nephritis. As far as I can see very little attention has so far been bestowed on the prognostic importance of dietary treatm...
10. c. Chronic Pulmonary Disease - The Indications for Reduction Cures in ObesityAs it is my intention to discuss pulmonary tuberculosis separately, and as many other disorders (for instance, kyphoscoliosis, emphysema, adhesive pleurisy) have already been discussed in the paragrap...
11. d. Chronic Articular Rheumatism - The Indications for Reduction Cures in ObesityIn certain respects similar conditions obtain in chronic arthritis; this disease if it attacks the intervertebral articulations, the articulations of the pelvis or of the legs favors obesity from the ...
12. e. Gout - The Indications for Reduction Cures in Obesity(Arthritis urica). It is a well-known fact that gout and obesity are frequently found together in the same individual. The prognosis of gout in obese subjects is comparatively favorable; the disease i...
13. f. Other Diseases of the Organs of Locomotion - The Indications for Reduction Cures in ObesityIn addition to chronic rheumatism and gout a number of other diseases that interfere with locomotion call for reduction cures whenever even slight degrees of obesity seem to render the movements of th...
14. g. Diseases of the Nervous System - The Indications for Reduction Cures in ObesitySome of the diseases of the nervous system we have already discussed above, those, namely, that interfere with locomotion; other forms of nervous disease call for a short discussion. We are here deali...
15. h. Diabetes mellitus - The Indications for Reduction Cures in ObesityThe statement has frequently been made by different clinicians that cases of diabetes usually feel better and are better protected against the dangers of diabetes if they are fat above the average. It...
16. i. Pulmonary Tuberculosis - The Indications for Reduction Cures in ObesityModern phthisiotherapy, according to Brehmer and Dettweiler, calls for abundant nutrition in phthisis. The results of this treatment are so extraordinary and so satisfactory that we need not be surpri...