Word: facelessness
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Symptoms, in the beginning, are those which attend the incubation of various diseases-irregular fever dizziness, hyperaesthesia of the skin, pains in the arms and legs, loss of sexual power. Forebodings appals the sufferer; faceless shapes of doom brawl in his mind; ulcers corrupt his arms; his skin greys; his eyebrows, loosened, overhang his eyes like disheveled blinds; while his voice shrinks and becomes raucous, as if he contended for possession of it with an evil spirit. Little by little, as his body rots, an odor pervades it, more deathly and infinitely more revolting than that of the carnal house...