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 North Carolinians, whose attachment to the soil of their State was as passionate as that of any Greeks, ancient or modern, Attic or Peloponnesian.
"The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915"
Basil L. Gildersleeve
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."
"Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure"
William Thomas Fernie
Some for Want of timely Care, through Ignorance or Obstinacy, will permit the Distemper to lurk about them so long, till at last it has reduced them to an irrecoverable, lingering, ill Habit of Body; especially if they live meanly, drinking too much Water, and eating too much salt Meat; and this cachexy generally ends their Lives with a Dropsy, Consumption, the Jaundice, or some such Illness.
"The Present State of Virginia"
Hugh Jones