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Show Is Leanness Due to a Short Intestine? i a variety of clinical forms, and without special regard to cause these subjects may often recover their weight under rest in bed and forced feeding with butter, cereals, etc. Lack of exercise Is antagonized an-tagonized by massage and a certain amount of voluntary exercise is compatible with the rest cure. When these cases of emaciation do not respond re-spond to trestment a toxic or psychie factor must be suspected. LEANNESS is congenital, emaciation is acquired ac-quired and due to some disease. According to Tartiere's index ths Ideal weight of an adult expressed in kilograms should be equal to the decimals of height above the metre. Given the actual height and weight it is therefore easy to compute the degree of spareness or emaciation, Roox considers ths two conditions jointly in sn article which appears in ths gastroenterological number of La Medecina. - In regard to leanness, "once lean always lean," although exeeptlona occur oc-cur in which the lean man becomes stout in middle mid-dle life. The author does not appear to be aware of Goldthwaite's teaching that leanness means an abnormally short intestine and the resulting Inability to assimilate food reserves, but he quotes Glgoa, who states that the eongenitajly thin man' requires 4000 daily food calories instead of the normal 8000, and since he does not for one or another an-other reason receive this number the status agrees practically with the doctrine of ths short intestine, which, by the way, is based on actual measurements. The emaciated man in distinction from the merely lean one may rapidly take on weight when the causes of his malnutrition are removed. There need not be a definite disease to explain emaei-tion. emaei-tion. Thus the plump child msy sometimes become be-come thin as a result of rapid growth. Emaciation Emacia-tion from ander-noorishment may appear under |