The first great successes with thyroid were achieved in adults, particularly adult women, exhibiting a peculiar obesity, coldness, loss of hair and teeth and a remarkable lassitude and torpor that might be summed up as a chronic drowsiness, like a saturation of the blood with some narcotic drug.

If the bony container is or becomes too small for its contents, it is interesting that along with the other signs of pituitary insufficiency, such as undersize, obesity, and asymmetry, there developes conspicuous moral and intellectual inferiority.

In males, the generative organs do not grow, hair on the face does not appear, hair elsewhere on the body remains generally scanty, the voice continues as high-pitched as the child's, there is more or less muscle weakness, obesity, and mental sluggishness.

With delayed involution of the pineal, obesity results.

Tendency to obesity (toward middle age) 3.

Or there may be obesity, with juvenility, if there is a repression of the pituitary secretion for one reason or other.

The Jewesses, in general, until they become enormously stout and weighed down with obesity, are of extreme beauty.

It is useful in cases of obesity, liver affections, and others of that type.

Specially recommended In oases of DIABETES, GOUT, RHEUMATISM, OBESITY, AND INDIGESTION.

She counted his obesity to him for a sin.

Besides being guiltless of obesity, George Cannon was free from the unpardonable fault of clumsiness.

Size N. size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume; largeness &c adj.; greatness &c (of quantity) 31; expanse &c (space) 180; amplitude, mass; proportions. capacity, tonnage, tunnage; cordage; caliber, scantling. turgidity &c (expansion) 194; corpulence, obesity; plumpness &c adj.; embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood.

Expansion N. expansion; increase of size &c 35; enlargement, extension, augmentation; amplification, ampliation^; aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction; turgescence^, turgidness, turgidity; dispansion^; obesity &c (size) 192; hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus

But of them all only one species, and that a migratory one, the mallard, has been persuaded to abandon its wandering ways and settle down to a life of ease and obesity as a dependant of man.

Come, make up your mind to let him go with me, and I'll send him home as stout as I am." At the bare idea of Charlie's being brought to such a state of obesity, Kinch, who, during the interview, had been in the back part of the room, making all manner of faces, was obliged to leave the apartment, to prevent a serious explosion of laughter, and after their visitor had departed he was found rolling about the floor in a tempest of mirth.

Towards the middle period of his life, he became so enormously fat, that four life-guardsmen could not, without difficulty, lift him on horseback; but, as he advanced in years, although still corpulent, his inconvenient obesity gradually diminished.

If we may believe caricaturists, the fleshiness and obesity of many English men and women in the earlier years of this century must have been prodigious.

Though from the land of shillelaghs and whiskey, Paddy is entirely devoid of that gunpowder temperament which characterizes his country; and his genuine humour, ample obesity, and originality of delivery, entitle him to honourable identification with "Sir John."

" If such selfish love of obesity for sensual purposes merits the name of affection, I cheerfully grant that Australians are capable of affection to an unlimited degree.

One would expect it fairly to burst with such an obesity, plethora, and superfoetation of useless information.

They are too valuable to run the terrible gauntlet of oil-cake, bean and barley-meal, through which they must flounder on in cruel obesity to the prize.

When getting into years, and into monstrous obesity, he was presented as a contribution to the Lancashire Relief Fund.

Another personage whom he recognised, from his obesity, the peculiarity of his long flowing periwig, and his black velvet Parisian pourpoint, which contrasted forcibly with the glittering habiliments of his companions, was Doctor Mayerne-Turquet, the celebrated French professor of medicine, then so high in favour with James, that, having been loaded with honours and dignities, he had been recently named the King's first physician.

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It turns out that the doctor told her to put the slippers as far as possible under the bed so as to cure the man of his obesity.