Hippocrates, the father of medicine (460 to 370 b.c .), described cachexia as a condition in which “the flesh is consumed and becomes water,…the abdomen fills with water, the feet and legs swell, and the shoulders, clavicles, chest, and thighs melt away.” Nearly 2500 years later, we…
The New England Journal of Medicine: Search Results in Gastroenterology
