Practical hydropathy, including plans of baths and remarks on diet, clothing and habits of . way may be explained the greater frequency of bilious disorders inmiddle life, when men begin to take less exercise, and their respiration becomesless active, while, on the other hand, the tendency to indulgence at table but toooften increases. We may also often see inverse evidence of these relations in the effect of pureair and active exercise, in relieving various disorders that result from repletion,and from the retention of principles which, if not burnt in respiration, shouldpass off by th
Practical hydropathy, including plans of baths and remarks on diet, clothing and habits of . way may be explained the greater frequency of bilious disorders inmiddle life, when men begin to take less exercise, and their respiration becomesless active, while, on the other hand, the tendency to indulgence at table but toooften increases. We may also often see inverse evidence of these relations in the effect of pureair and active exercise, in relieving various disorders that result from repletion,and from the retention of principles which, if not burnt in respiration, shouldpass off by the liver as bile. Every sportsman must have remarked the effect ofa single days hunting in clearing the complexion. It has, no doubt, much thesame effect on the liver as on the skin.—Budd. The liver in health measures about 12 inches from side to side, and 6 or 7 THE LIVER. 345 Gall-bladder filled with gall-stones, which, have all a crustof pure cholesterine. From aman, 64 years of age, who diedin Kings College Hospital, ofsoftening of the brain. Nodisease of the liver was sus-pected.—
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