Cursory remarks on corpulence, or, Obesity considered as a disease : with a critical examination of ancient and modern opinions, relative to its causes and cure / by William Wadd, Surgeon.

  • Wadd, William, 1776-1829.
Date:
1816
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Credit: Cursory remarks on corpulence, or, Obesity considered as a disease : with a critical examination of ancient and modern opinions, relative to its causes and cure / by William Wadd, Surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a small pamphlet by Dr. Flemyng, and some occasional remarks in a few systematic works, will, I believe, be found to comprise all that has been said in this country, on what Dr. Fothergill termed, cc a most singular disease In answer to this, we may be told, that sufficient has been written, for any man to be his own physician in this complaint, and that cc le regime maigre, and Dr. Rad- clinVs advice, of keeping cc the eyes open, and the mouth shut/' contains the whole secret of the cure. That Lewis Cornaro and Thomas Wood, believed in this doctrine, and acted up to its principles, by a rigid perseverance in abstinence, is undoubtedly true; nor is it less certain, that the one emerged from a state of constant torment, and the other from the oppression of a load of fat. There may be others, and probably many, B4