Of the secondary effects, the cachectic condition induced expresses itself in pulmonary phthisis largely, while in infants and very young children intestinal disorders are specially frequent.
A cachectic state is often induced by a continued use of mercurial preparations, or at least by mercury and disease together, in constitutions not originally strong.
When the stricture is very tight, the patient cachectic and irregular in his mode of life, and the case injudiciously or inertly treated, sloughing takes place rapidly, or phagedenic ulceration occurs anterior to the stricture.
To the continued irregular and imprudent exhibition of mercurial alteratives, as they are called, may be attributed the cachectic and scrofulous constitutions of many thousands of patients of all ages.
Cachectic patients should not, as some authorities recommended in former times, be starved by poor diet in addition to the losses which they already suffer when afflicted with diseases, such as cancer.
All cachectic or morbid nutrition conditions are due to imperfect lymph.
By this time the patient has assumed a cachectic look.
A little cachectic dropsy may appear about the ankles.
In infants much reduced, Parrot has seen ulceration in the neighborhood of the pterygoid apophyses, but attributable to the cachectic state of the child, and not to the disease in the mouth.
In the cachectic stage, toward the end of the disease, aphthous patches {541} often appear on the tongue and buccal mucous membrane.
Purpura haemorrhagica has been present in a few instances in the later stages (cachectic purpura).
Toward the last, cachectic oedema about the ankles can often be recognized.
Tuberculosis is a cachectic (possibly a purely dyscratic) one, not inherent in the individual, but always caused by some morbid influence from without.
Second: Cases in which gastric symptoms are absent or insignificant, whereas symptoms of general marasmus or of progressive anaemia or of cachectic dropsy are prominent.
Albuminuria does not belong to the history of gastric cancer, although a small quantity of albumen may be present in the urine as in other anaemic and cachectic conditions.
Progressive emaciation and impaired physical endurance usually precede these local symptoms, but actual cachectic depression may come on quite tardily.
They are formed most abundantly on the legs of scrofulous, cachectic persons who have purpura.
Slight or moderate oedema about the ankles is a common symptom during the cachectic stage of gastric cancer.
This form of irregular pock has not been seen by the writer of late years, but before animal vaccination came into general use he met with it frequently, mostly in cachectic children.
Two of these factors, as above enumerated, are more or less general to the system, being the consequence of general cachectic states.
Pleuritis, which we have stated is apt to be suppurative, demands the same treatment as the idiopathic disease when it occurs in cachectic patients.
One of the most protracted cases is that recorded by Bollinger of a veterinarian who, after an eleven years' illness, recovered with cicatricial contraction of the nose and larynx and a decided cachectic appearance.
The disease going on from bad to worse, he by and by became cachectic and dropsical, and finally grievously distressed, he died in one of his paroxysms.
