Word: anorexia
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...Richardson got to know them, Catherine had come to the New York Hospital clinic for a heart murmur. He later found that Mrs. Q was bothered by a gastric ulcer, that Mr. Q habitually vomited sometimes 20 times a night, that Agnes had a well-developed case of anorexia nervosa (nervous rejection of food). Both parents had very bad teeth...
...Vitamin B1 (thiamin): for beriberi, anorexia, certain heart disturbances, inadequate lactation, nerve diseases of alcoholism, facial neuralgia, cirrhosis of the liver, sciatica...
...psychiatrists, Linnea's case was no puzzle. Anorexia nervosa (hysterical lack of appetite) often occurs in unstable women who are unconsciously afraid to grow up, and, according to Freudians, derive a childish sexual pleasure from finicky eating (oral eroticism). Some, like Linnea, gorge themselves on childish foods, others retreat all the way back to the suckling stage, stubbornly take nothing but milk. From such disastrous whims, say doctors, few recover...
...fibroid phthisis, fibroid pleurisy, unresolved pneumonia, syphilis of the lungs, mucoses of the lungs, bronchiectasis, interlobar empyema, abscess of the lungs and enlargements and tumors common to the mediastinum. Of cancer of the lungs the constant symptoms seem to be: pain, dyspnea, cough, weakness, loss of weight, cachexia, fever, anorexia. Before deciding that his patient has cancer, the careful doctor, from his store of knowledge and experience, which no laymen need doubt or seek to supplement, eliminates all other possibilities. However, the physician keeps a possible secondary lung involvement ever in mind. A skilled radiographer should also be called...
...seasickness are too well known to merit detailed description. Suffice it to list the following, which may come on in an ordinary case, from six to thirty-six hours after departure, normal weather conditions prevailing: discomfort in the epigastric region, varying with the rise and fall of the ship; anorexia; salivation, with frequent swallowing movements; headache, dizziness; weakness, progressing to faintness; cold perspiration of the skin, and pallor of the face, with the oft-described greenish hue. The facial expression, which is one of great dejection and apathy, faithfully records the internal feelings. Waves of nausea finally get so strong...