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Fat and Blood

CHAPTER VIII
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She was then placed on the full treatment which I shall hereafter describe.
The weight returned slowly, and with it she became quite ruddy, while her flesh lost altogether its flabby character.

I never saw a more striking result.
I have been careful to speak at length of these fat anaemic cases, because, while rare, they have been, to me at least, among the most difficult to manage of all the curable anaemias, and because with the plan described I have been almost as successful as I could desire.
Let us now suppose that we have to deal with a person of another and different type,--one of the larger class of feeble, thin-blooded, neurasthenic or hysterical women.

Let us presume that every ordinary and easily attainable means of relief has been utterly exhausted, for not otherwise do I consider it reasonable to use so extreme a treatment as the one we are now to consider.

Inevitably, if it be a woman long ill and long treated, we shall have to settle the question of uterine therapeutics.

A careful examination is made, and we learn that there is decided displacement.


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