A discourse on the nature, causes, and cure of corpulency. Illustrated by a remarkable case, read before the Royal Society, November 1757 ... / By Malcolm Flemyng.

  • Flemyng, Malcolm, -1764
Date:
1760
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Credit: A discourse on the nature, causes, and cure of corpulency. Illustrated by a remarkable case, read before the Royal Society, November 1757 ... / By Malcolm Flemyng. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with greater advantage, after the body Is confiderably reduced, than before. The third caufe of Corpulency being too eafy a feparation of the oily particles of the blood from it’s other contents, efpecially the aqueous vehicle, arifing from a weak and imperfed union of the different ele¬ ments together, what occurs to me as mod diredly tending to ids removal, is, Firft, by a fpare and plain diet to with¬ hold, or atleaft dimini£h the daily frefh fup- plies of oily matter to the blood ; that the folids, by whofe adion and energy that union, and as it were cohefion of the principles of the blood effeded, may not have more work, to do than enough ; And, Next to excite the adion of the folids ; which is to be done chiefly by exercife ; un¬ der which, I comprehend fridion or dry rubbing of the furface of the body, efpeci¬ ally the trunk, as a meterial article. And this kind of exercife is fo much the more neceffary to extremely corpulent perfons, that they can fcarcely ufe any other with remark¬ able effed. Strengthened, that heat mode¬ rately.