The Diseases of the Madras Famine of 1877-78
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some general remarks 011 the emaciation of the patieuts. 86 per cent, of the men and 83 per cent, of the women had wasted till they were barely two-thirds of their normal weight. When emaciation has reached this degree, life is held by a slender thread which the least untoward circumstance is sufficient to snap. Besides the wasting of the muscular tissues, the organs of the body, especially the solid organs wasted. This was most marked in the spleen. Wasting was also very noticeable even iu the brain, and Dr. Porter observes that to this wasting of the nervous tissue was no doubt in a great part due the lethargy and great nervous depression depicted in the faces of the famine stricken, as well as their apathy and unwillingness to use the smallest exertions to help themselves (often taken for obstinacy to the uninitiated). Many expressed an indifference to life and some a desire to die.
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