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. Organic diseases already existing are seriously aggravated; wounds fail to heal, become ulcerative and sometimes gangrenous; while all degenerative processes are rapidly hastened to a fatal issue.[968]
INDEX.
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Abdomen, contusions of, [580]
post-mortem examination of, [370]
wounds of, [580]
Abdominal viscera, rupture of, [582]
wounds of, [582]