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Excerpt from The Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine, Vol. 2 of 4: Comprising Treatises on the Nature and Treatment of Diseases, Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Medical Jurisprudence, Etc.; Emphysema-Inflammation
Frank remarks that thin persons are more liable to emphysema than those whose cellular tissue is loaded with fat; and it is matter of common oh servation, that those parts of the body where the cellular tissue is lax and free from fat are most easily affected with this disease. Thus, the eye lids, scrotum, neck, and, sides of the thorax, yield readily _to the admission of air, while the buttocks and thighs, the arms and legs are much more slowly distended. The dense cellular tissue which lines the serous and mucous membranes yields with still more difficulty to emphysema, and the palms of the hands and soles of the feet are among the last parts to become so affected.
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