The milder cases may profit by iron, with rest and very vigorous massage, but in old cases of this kind--they are, happily, rare--the best plan is to put the patient at rest, to use massage, restrict the diet to skimmed milk, or to milk and broths free from fat, and with them, when the weight has been sufficiently lowered, to give iron freely, and by degrees a good general diet, under which the globules rise in number, so that even with a new gain in flesh there comes an equal gain in strength and comfort.

The massage must be very thoroughly done to be of service, and it is often difficult to get operators to perform it properly, as the manipulation of very fat people is excessively hard work.

As to other details, the management should be much the same as that which I shall presently describe in connection with cases of another kind.
I add two cases in illustration of the use of rest, milk, and massage in the treatment of persons who are both anaemic and overloaded with fat.
Mrs.P., aet.

45, weight one hundred and ninety pounds, height five feet four and a half inches, had for some years been feeble, unable to walk without panting, or to move rapidly even a few steps.

Although always stout, her great increase of flesh had followed an attack of typhoid fever four years before.