Owing to an accident of war, he lost a leg, and ever since has had severe neuralgic pain referred to the lost leg.

These attacks depend almost altogether on storms.

In years of fewest storms they are least numerous, and the bodily weight, which is never insufficient, rises.

With their increase it lowers to a certain amount, beneath which it does not fall.

His weight is, therefore, indirectly dependent upon the number of storms to the influence of which he is exposed.
At present, however, we have to do most largely with the means of attaining that moderate share of stored-away fat which seems to indicate a state of nutritive prosperity and to be essential to those physical needs, such as protection and padding, which fat subserves, no less than to its aesthetic value, as rounding the curves of the human form.
The study of the amount of the different forms of diet which is needed by people at rest, and by those who are active, is valuable only to enable us to construct dietaries with care for masses of men and where economy is an object.