Excerpt from Report of Professor Delafield's Lectures on the Practice of Medicine, 1888 The patients become anaemic, they are emaciated, or, although remaining fat, are feeble and flabby. The ingestion of fats is followed by distress. They are con stipated, with flatulence and its associated pains. The faeces are hard and light-colored. The tongue is coated, the mouth and throat dry, with a bitter taste. The skin is pale and muddy-looking. The appetite is poor and capricious. The urine contains an excess of phosphate and oxalate of lime. There are headache, mental lassi tude, abnormal sensations in different parts of the body. In the bad cases hypochondriasis, neurasthenia, hysteria, or melancholia may be developed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.