Word: cachexia
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According to the semilegendary Hippocrates, father of Western medicine, writing 600 years after David, the oldster's lot was not a happy one: "Old men suffer from difficulty of breathing, catarrh accompanied by coughing, difficult micturition, pains at the joints, kidney disease, dizziness, apoplexy, cachexia [wasting], pruritus [itching] of the whole body, sleeplessness, watery discharges from bowels, eyes and nostrils, dullness of sight, cataract, hardness of hearing...
...body's regular protective guard against cancer. Miss Medes has made it her job to find out the answer to this phase of the cancer question, no matter what the cost. Thus far the brave scientist has discovered in her body none of the lumps, malaise, sores, cachexia that harbinger the world's most frightful blight. Said she last week: "I don't mind being a guinea pig. But I do mind being called...
...chronic tuberculosis, 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...
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