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As for sterility from excessive fatness, where the gener- 

 ative organs have undergone fatty degeneration or other 

 serious change a cure is out of the question. But short 

 of that point improvement is likely to occur in many in- 

 stances if a great amount of exercise is given, the quantity 

 of starches is reduced or they are withheld altogether and 

 the diet is made up largely of meat, and only such vege- 

 table foods are allowed as grow above ground — as, for 

 instance, spinach, dandelion and other greens, nettle tops, 

 cabbages, etc. 



According to reports, copious bleeding has been tried 

 in some cases, but while this treatment might overcome 

 sterility when due to a plethoric condition of the system, 

 or, in other words, where the victims had too much blood 

 and there was great irritability of the organs of generation 

 in consequence of local congestion or inflammation which 

 interfered with their function, it is certainly not appro- 

 priate for sterility from obesity, in which the constitution 

 is impaired and must suffer a still greater loss of vigor 

 with the depletion. 



