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Excerpt from Cursory Remarks on Corpulence
He had approached his thirtieth year before he experienced any great ihconveni ence from 1118 increase of bulk. From this period his mind was deeply impressed with the apprehension of becoming corpulent. Inactivity, somnolency, depression of spi rits, that trairi of symptoms usually called nervous, and an inaptitude for study, were symptoms which could not but produce much anxiety. By an abstemious mode of living, and a vegetable diet, he became lighter, 'more capable of 'mental exertion, and in every respect improved in health but whenever he resumed his former course of living, his complaints returned in full'
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