But it is here mentioned only that the medical jurist may be cautioned
against the belief that it is in all circumstances a correct criterion.
Upon this particular Rochoux has furnished some satisfactory data. Among
his sixty-three patients thirty were of an ordinary habit, twenty-three
were of a thin, meager habit, and ten only were large, plethoric and
fat.[1629] In receiving this statement, however, it is necessary to
consider, that although the vulgar idea, that most apoplectic people are
fat, does not apply to persons in the rank of Rochoux’s patients, who
were mostly hospital inmates, yet it may apply better to the upper
ranks. For the same circumstances which predispose to apoplexy, namely,
great strength, vigorous constitution and good digestive powers,
likewise predispose to corpulency, so that whenever the condition of
life permits the disposition to corpulency to be developed, the
connexion of apoplexy with it will appear.