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Obesity, or Excessive Corpulence: The Various Causes and the Rational Means of Cure

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Obesity, or Excessive Corpulence: The Various Causes and the Rational Means of Cure

Jean-François Dancel and M. Barrett

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A French physician promised that corpulence could be cured rationally. Dancel's treatise on obesity surveys the various causes, the treatment, and documented cases of reduction, with his prescriptions for the careful selection of food and drink. Nineteenth century weight science from the Paris consulting room. Weigh a rational method from medicine's earlier era.

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13 chapters

  1. 1OBESITY, or EXCESSIVE CORPULENCE: THE VARIOUS CAUSES and THE RATIONAL MEANS OF CURE.
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
  4. 4AUTHOR'S PREFACE to the THIRD EDITION.
  5. 5CONTENTS.
  6. 6CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.
  7. 7CHAPTER II.
  8. 8CHAPTER III.
  9. 9CHAPTER IV.
  10. 10CHAPTER V. ON THE TREATMENT OF OBESITY.
  11. 11CHAPTER VI. CASES OF REDUCTION OF CORPULENCE.
  12. 12CHAPTER VII. ON THE SELECTION OF ALIMENTARY SUBSTANCES FAVOURABLE TO THE REDUCTION OF CORPULENCE.
  13. 13CHAPTER VIII.
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