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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1829. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CASES. "Monstro, quod ipse tibi possis dare." Juvenal. We have now to illustrate the preliminary remarks; this will he best effected by extracts from the communications of correspondents. The first extract is from a very sensible, wellinformed, studious friend. He gives a succinct account of his feelings, presenting an outline, or sketch, of which every practitioner in the metropolis could produce a duplicate; and every respectable medical man could, doubtless, furnish a more highly-finished portrait than this, and those which follow it. Be it so; I shall present my collection as I would portraits of another description, feeling that those who could give a better delineation and colouring of the facts of my portfolio, are the persons who will receive with the greatest latitude this attempt at portraying characters, which, from their very nature, approach to caricature. Case I. Extract of a Letter from, Esq. "You have long known that I experienced much inconvenience from that embonpoint appearance, for which the weak and ignorant are so apt to congratulate and flatter a person. Inactivity, somnolency, depression of spirits, great nervousness, as it is popularly called, but, above all, an unwillingness, or rather inaptitude for long-continued study, were symptoms of disease which I found very much increase; and from all the attention I was able to give to the subject--from what I had heard and read--but, above all, from its coinciding with your opinion, I was at last perfectly confident, that these symptoms principally arose from a too great accumulation of fat. It was not difficult for me to account for this accumulation, even supposing there was no natural tendency to it in my constitution. From earliest childhood I was more inclined to read than to play, and wh...