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...Examples flow from any physician's experience. Overweight???the man of 40 getting a fat body and a fat head, who avows himself a small eater yet is clogged with his own metabolic products; the man becoming set about the neck and waist, who turns his body slowly rather than his head and eyes quickly, or who is bluish and breathless, losing his rib movements and wants to 'stay put.' Then the various gastrointestinal victims who need to be taught how to eat. how to digest, and to regulate their bowels, and perhaps to be cured of their 'conscious abdomens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: B. M. A. | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

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