cachectic

• “Dense, crunchy, intended for medical professionals (I learned two new words -- "cachectic" and "hemoptysis" -- and my medical Latin is pretty darned good for a non-doctor), and full of the usual assortment of incredibly gross but illustrative scene photos.”

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• “But this response is hardly universal; only some patients become cachectic, and only at certain points in their treatment.”

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• “Instances, indeed, are not unknown of persons who in consequence of a cachectic state have secreted sweat that resembled blood, their body having become loose and flabby, and their blood watery, owing to the heat in the small vessels having been too scanty for its concoction.”

  On the Parts of Animals

• “Miss Letty was altogether too wholesome, hearty, and high-strung a young girl to be a model, according to the flat-chested and cachectic pattern which is the classical type of certain excellent young females, often the subjects of biographical memoirs.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860

• “No hectic heat of skin, but an extraordinary depression of the arterial action, arising evidently from the redundancy of carbon deposited in the pulmonary tissue, preventing the proper oxygenation of the blood circulating in the organs, and thereby producing a morbid effect on the whole system, which sufficiently explains the cachectic condition of the body.”

  An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners

• “All cachectic or morbid nutrition conditions are due to imperfect lymph.”

  Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration

• “Mr. Bradshaw expected naturally to see a youth of imperfect constitution, and cachectic or dyspeptic tendencies, who was in training to furnish one of those biographies beginning with the statement that, from his infancy, the subject of it showed no inclination for boyish amusements, and so on, until he dies out, for the simple reason that there was not enough of him to live.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.

• “He had been in poor health for a number of years, and was then in a very cachectic condition.”

  The Electric Bath

• “As he was not cachectic and no apparent ganglion was found, and as his thoracic respiration was perfect, it seemed to be indicated that an incision should be made in his stomach.”

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888

• “In China they drink an infusion of the root instead of tea, and it is well known that they have recourse to it as a last resort in all diseases: Dr. James says, more especially in all cachectic and consumptive cases, and in those arising from debility of any kind.”

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