When fully fattened, the thin cuticle, that is one of its characteristics, cracks, from the adipose distension beneath, exposing the fatty mass, which discharges a liquid oil from the adjacent tissues.

(Showing its internal structure) A, tendon of the semi-membranosus muscle cut across; B, F, tendon of same muscle; C, internal condyle of femur; D, posterior crucial ligament; E, internal interarticular fibro cartilage; G, bursa under knee-cap; H, ligament of knee-cap; K, fatty mass under knee-cap; L, anterior crucial ligament cut across; P, patella, or knee-cap ]

To this perverted chemical action is also due the fatty degeneration so common in inebriates, affecting the muscles, the heart, and the liver.

Other poisons, as phosphorus, produce this fatty decay more rapidly; but alcohol causes it in a much more general way.

An important use of fatty foods is for the maintenance of the bodily heat.

With the thermometer ranging from 60 to 70 degrees F. below zero, there was a persistent craving for strong animal diet, especially fatty foods.

Fatty Degeneration Due to Alcohol.

This is called fatty degeneration, and is not limited to the liver, but other organs are likely to be similarly affected.

In other cases the vessels are weakened by an unnatural fatty deposit.

In some parts it is closely attached to the structures beneath, while in others it is less firmly adherent and rests upon a variable amount of fatty tissue.

Deep in the substance of the true skin, or in the fatty tissue beneath it, are the sweat glands.

The sweat is a turbid, saltish fluid with a feeble but characteristic odor due to certain volatile fatty acids.

Sometimes from this continued irritation, with the resulting inflammation, and sometimes from change of structure of the kidney by fatty degeneration, comes the failure to perform its proper function.

"If I was to get in touch with Colma, Fatty, what d'you think they'd be able to tell me about your record up there?" The olive skin of Arizona became a bleached drab.

" "Speaking personal, Fatty, I'm kind of tired of it right now.

"But between you and me," grumbled the big man, "it looked from the first like a bum game, Fatty.

Sinclair saw Fatty put his hand on the shoulder of his companion.

Same way with you, Fatty.

"Fatty," he said hastily, "gunplay will spoil everything.

On every handwith a thrill of intensest joy, I say it!is to be seen, if not yet commencing civilisation, then progress, progresswide as the worldtoward it: only hereat the heartis there decadence, fatty degeneration.

"You'd just as well take the orphans one of the biggest fatty gourds of maple sugar," sighed Miss Penelope.

Tell the Sisters that all the maple sugar that was ever poured into fatty gourds couldn't hurt the children's teeth now.

" She called all the small cup-bearers,for some unknown reason she never called one or two without calling all,and sent them running to the smoke-house to fetch the fatty gourd.

But the cup-bearers knew Miss Penelope quite as well as she knew them, and when they came back with the fatty gourd they waited, as a matter of course, till she gave each one of them a generous handful of the sugar, before handing the gourd to David.

This aroused fatty, who left the church in a rage, and his subscription was lost forever.