| Description Of Item | Contains 'Adiposis - Textbook p288' with extract from textbook on fatty constitutional diseases; 'Fatty Degeneration in the form of [Atheromatous] Degeneration' with microscopical examination of athermatous deposit on cardiac valves; 'Fatty Degeneration of the Heart'; 'Fibroid Degeneration - Fibrinous Cachexiae' with extract from textbook on fibroid constitutional diseases and a cutting on the enlargement of lymphatic glands and spleen and fatty degeneration of heart and liver; and 'Waxy Lardaceous, Amyloid Degenerations'. Also includes analysis of Woodhall spa water, 1874 and advertisements for the spa; carte de visite photograph of a man, possibly Reverend Dr Marshall, exhibiting polysarcia; 'On the nature of the waxy lardaceous or amyloid degeneration' by William H Dickinson, 1867; 'Dietary in Disease' by Edward Smith, 1864; 'On certain points in the anatomy and pathology of Bright's Disease of the kidney and on the influence of the minute blood vessels upon the circulation' by Dr George Johnson, 1868; 'Strychnia in fatty degeneration of the heart' by J Waring-Curran, 1870; and small cuttings on cases of obesity, changes in the adipose cellular tissue in amyloid degeneration, fatty degeneration of the cornea, the effect of alcohol on the human body etc. |