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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 598 of 653iS« Marasmiis, Tabes.[This anomaly of the functions of nutrition consists in a perceptible decrease of the normal roundness and fulness of the body.Primarily marasmus arises in consequence of congenital debility,a deficient supply of nourishment, excessive bodily or mental labcontinued mental depression, sexual excesses, self-abuse, continusitting, too frequent confinements. Very often the cause is unknown.Secondarily this disease may be superinduced by excessive secretion, seminal losses, excessive perspiration, ptyalism, excessivenursing, long-lasting diarrhoea, blennorrhoea, diabetes melitus,tinued losses of blood, chronic suppurations or discharges of ichexhausting diseases, pysemia, cancer, syphilis, tuberculosis, lonlasting intermittents, etc.Marasmus likewise arises in consequence of chronic blooding, by Arsen.y Lead, Mercury^ etc., or in consequence of exhauststrength, most frequently in childhood and old age ; it may likewise occur in consequence of continued nervous irritability, sleelessness, chronic febrile conditions, etc.Marasmus is chiefly characterized by a gradual or rapid emaciation, disappearance of the adipose tissue, a wrinkled skin, flabbness of the muscles. The skin is mostly dry, extenuated, wrinkledrough and scaly, without turgor or elasticity ; at times it is yeish, at other times strikingly pale, or cachectic; at times it iscovered with local or colliquative perspiration; the hair on the712 Marasmus, Tabes.head falls out more and more, the nails become curved and brittlethe extremities are mostly cool, the patients frequently complainof a feeling of coldness and cannot get warm.At times the appetite is great, increasing even to canine hunger,but the hunger is soon appeased and digestion takes place veryslowly. At other times the patients experience an irresistible avsion to meat or certain kinds of food. In most cases the thirst iincreased.The breath is often fetid, the gums are atrophied, the teeth aredenuded, and gradually become loose and fall out.The voice is feeble and without resonnance, the respiration isfrequently normal, but often oppressed, and after the least bodilexertion dyspnoea and palpitation of the heart set in. The breastbecome pendulous and flabby, the abdomen is at times sunken, atother times distended ; the bowels are at times loose, at other tconstipated, and again dysenteric ; the urine is mostly secretedsmall quantities and saturated, the genital organs become atrophiand the sexual instinct is either diminished or becomes entirelyextinct. The pulse is small and feeble, sleep fatiguing rather threfreshing, sometimes it is very much disturbed ; the patients areither hypochondriac or irascible; sometimes they show muchhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt