A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . iation. F. Miiller describes most graphically thiscurious phenomenon. The food prepared for this pa-tient, quite enough for the nourishment of a robust per-son, was not enough for her, and she gathered up everyscrap of food that was left by the other patients in theward. One found her almost always eating, and it wascurious to see her, as with wide open, eager eyes shestared into her plate and ceaselessly chewed and swal-lowed. There are, however, variations in this
A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . iation. F. Miiller describes most graphically thiscurious phenomenon. The food prepared for this pa-tient, quite enough for the nourishment of a robust per-son, was not enough for her, and she gathered up everyscrap of food that was left by the other patients in theward. One found her almost always eating, and it wascurious to see her, as with wide open, eager eyes shestared into her plate and ceaselessly chewed and swal-lowed. There are, however, variations in this emaciation, such 440 REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE JIEDICAL SCIENCES. ExoplitlialmicGoitre. that while at times the patient loses rapidly in weight,there come periods during which she recovers almost allthat was lost, and Huchard speaks accordingly of crisesdamaigrissemcnt. Tlie loss of weight may be enormous sous disease. An instance of this is the above-mentiojicdcase of von Schrotter, So, too, urticaria, erythema,localized oedema, scleroderma, loss of hair, swelling ofjoints, atrophy and hypertrophy of breasts, etc.,
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