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

  • Ebstein, Wilhelm, 1836-1912.
Date:
1890
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Credit: Corpulence and its treatment on physiological principles / by Wilhelm Ebstein. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    again assure us that eunuchs are neither plumper nor leaner than other people. As reg-ards the influence of the sexual constitution of ivomen on the acquisition of embonpoint, it is commonly asserted that derangements of the monthly- courses have much to do with the increase of fat. In non-menstruating women it has been observed to become more abundant, and women have somewhat frequently been noticed to grow stouter when arriving at change of life. On this point Krieger communi- cates a statistical report by Tilt, who found that of 282 women, in whom menstruation had altogether ceased for five years, 121 had become more cor- pulent, that 71 had on the contrary retained their previous figure, while go had grown thinner. Krieger claims even to have observed a beneficial influence of this increasing embonpoint during the period of their change of life, in as much as they remain free from the nervous complaints so often attending the cessatio mensium, whenever these disappear pre- maturely. Krieger explains the matter by assuming that by the diversion of the superfluous blood to the formation of fat, all previously existing partial con- gestions, profuse excretions and nervous disturbances are got rid of. Other women begin to become full-bodied after pregnancies following rapidly on each other, especially when they do not nurse. But even 2*