Excerpt from The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery, 1841, Vol. 4 We often see persons who have been brought up in a plain manner acquiring a competency, and then quitting their la borious habits and taking to a sedentary life, become suddenly corpulent, with the appearance of high health. But if you congratulate them on the change, they will tell you that they do not feel well. They are troubled occasionally with ful ness of the head, or wandering pains in the abdomen or joints, evidently arising from the full habit, the result of the change in the mode of life. Many such persons I have seen suddenly taken off by some structural lesion, without any premonitory symptom. 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.