The Practitioner's Handbook of Treatment: Or, the Principles of Therapeutics
The Practitioner's Handbook of Treatment: Or, the Principles of Therapeutics
J Milner Fothergill
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As soon as oleaginous matter is supplied to the tissues. those changes known as tubercular growths give way to the formation of healthy tissues. In obesity, on the other hand, it is necessary to avoid those forms of food which readily develop adipose tissues. The favorite plan, in vogue at present, is that advocated by the late Mr. Banting. It consists of cutting off all hydrocarbonaceous food, and substituting for it a practically unlimited nitrogenized diet- ary. This is effectual in reducing... the amount of fat ; for the glycogen so furnished is insufficient for the needs of the system* and, consequently, the reserve stores of fat are drawn upon, and diminution in weight and bulk results. This plan is uuphyai- ological, and is so far unwise that it takes no account of the Digitized by VjOOQIC FOOD IN HEALTH AND IN ILL-HEALTH. 595 amount of nitrogenized waste produced by it ; and grave renal mischief often results therefrom. It is much more prudent to adopt a line of practice which secures the same results without the risks so run ; and the best plan is to fill the stomach with material, which, while it satisfies the cravings of hunger, furnishes but little aliment.
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