Likewise the cachexy, or evill habit of the body, and the dropsie in the beginning thereof, before it be too farre gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain] Reference

Parkinson says: "Whoso is drawing towards a consumption, or ready to fall into a cachexy, shall find a wonderful help from the use thereof, for some time together.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

The second consideration is that of health: a severe illness may alarm us for the time being, but an illness of a chronic nature or even cachexy frightens us away, because it would be transmitted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays of Schopenhauer] Reference

Nostalgia, which we are apt to sneer at as a doctor's name for homesickness, and to class with cachexy and borborygmus, was a power for evil in those days, and some of our finest troops were thinned out by it, notoriously the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915] Reference

Still another category includes what might loosely be called medical terms: anatomist, cad-wagon, cachexy, cataplasm, cholera sermon, resurrectioner, and of course the contagionist, meteorastic, and telluric schools of medicine.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 4] Reference

Of the former disease my own corps, I am informed, had in hospital at one time 200 cases above the usual amount of sickness; this arises from the brackish water, the want of vegetables, and lastly the cachexy induced by an utter absence of change, diversion, and excitement.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Footsteps in East Africa] Reference

And the climate of the hot-damp category was found to suit, mainly if not only, that tubercular cachexy and those, bronchial affections and lung-lesions in which the viscus would suffer from the over-excitement of an exceedingly dry air like the light invigorating medium of Tenerife or Thebes.    From Wordnik.com.  [To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I] Reference

America generally turn to intermittents, which are not mor - tal, even in twenty months; but in a few months more bring on that cachexy, with an emaciated habit, a Avelled belly, and pale fallow complexion, which is the characteristic of the bad ftate of health in all the fouthern aud maritime parts of North.    From Wordnik.com.  [A general history of the British empire in America : containing an historical, political, and commercial view of the English settlements ; including all the countries in North-America, and the West-Indies, ceded by the peace of Paris] Reference

It is regarded as diuretic, aperient, and sudorific, recommended in engorgement of the abdominal viscera, stomach, intestines, lymphatic glands, and in icterus, cachexy, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

39, 53 cachexia, 223 cachexy, 223 cactuses, 252 cadet, 150, 406 café, 144, 200, 319, 250, 249 cafeteria, 187 cag, 231, 232 cake-walk, 95, 163 calaboose, 39, 54 calamity-howler, 95 calculate, 39, 81 cald, 245 calendar, 113 caliber, 222, 240, 241 calibre, 222, 231 calico, 118 call a bluff, vp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mencken, H] Reference