Wentworth[80] reported several cases of marasmus in which he found no evidence of prosecretin.
The proof that the absence of secretin is characteristic of diabetes or of marasmus is not yet available.
About 50 per cent die of marasmus and loss of heat, with or without diarrhea.
Such may take place in disease or old age; and it is important to bear in mind those diseases in which marasmus is likely to arise, as thrombosis often proves a complication of such affections.
Marasmus is really a later and more severe form of malnutrition.
Marasmus is a term applied to infants who grow thinner and thinner.
He found that these eunuchs were much given to venereal enjoyment, but that either legitimate intercourse or masturbation, to which many were addicted, was apt to be followed by a marasmus ending in galloping consumption.
It has been observed that there is a noteworthy increase in amount of rickets,[136] scurvy and marasmus in children where highly-heated milks are employed.
Marasmus is a condition in which the ingested food seems to fail to nourish the body and gradual wasting away occurs.
The rapidity with which emaciation, hydrops, andmarasmus occur in severe cases is thus easily accounted for.
It is true that marasmus is found in both rachitis and syphilis, but it is met with in all sorts of diseases.
Inanition or marasmus is the usual cause of death in uncomplicated cases.
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.
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