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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 599 of 653apathy or obstinacy, their memory is weakened, their behavior isoften childish and vacillating. The muscles are flabby and atrophied, and the strength becomes less and less.The disease may last months or years ; in some cases marasmusprogresses at a rapid rate to a fatal termination.Recovery can only be obtained if the exciting causes can beremoved ; however, it takes place very slowly, sometimes with frequent interruptions and disposition to relapses.Wounds, ulcers, abscesses, etc., heal slowly and with difficulty;accidental diseases run a slow course which inclines to becomechronic. If the patients are compelled to remain in a recumbentposture, hypostatic inflammations are very apt to set in.According to the nature of the cause and of existing complications, death may take place by anaemia, hydrsemia, dropsy, pyaemiembolism, gangrene, etc.The prognosis is favorable only if the disease remains after sevediseases, losses of blood and other animal fluids, excessive exeretc. The marasmus of children is likewise a curable disease, provided the causes can be removed.In marasmus senilis, and in the marasmus consequent upon inMarasmus, Tabes. 718curable diseases, sach as tuberculosis, carcinoma, diabetes, caridiseases of the brain or spinal marrow, etc., the prognosis is unfavorable.TreattnefU* Marasmus scarcely ever sets in without aneemiato which we refer the reader for further details, more particularconsecutive anaemia and the anaemia inherent in the period ofinvolution.The marasmus consequent upon intermittent fevers is alwaysaccompanied with malarial cachexia, the treatment of which hasbeen indicated in the chapter on intermittent fever.Marasmus senilis is almost always complicated with anaemia. Itoccurs either between the years of forty and fifty (marasmus praecox, premature old age), or after the age of sixty or seventy yeaFor the treatment of marasmus praecox we refer the reader to thetreatment of the anaemia of involution; as regards the marasmusof old people, we treat it according to its symptomatic indicatioIf the anaemia is not very considerable ; if the loss of muscularOr adipose tissue is attended with great debility, disposition toin the day-time, feeble impulse and sounds of the heart, withoppression on the chest, dyspnoea after slight exertions, disposito painful diarrhoea, we recommend Phosphor. 3, a dose every twohours.This admirable remedy acts much better upon such symptomsthan Quinine ; it quickens the circulation, invigorates the digeshttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt