I believe the answer is conjure.
The structure and rhetorical style that the author uses in the letter to the editor of the Daily News is to inform readers about the new ideas about the disease using scientific evidence as support. They used problem/solution with a logical appeal.
The writing is about cookies?
Answer:
His muscles had wasted away to knotty strings, and the flesh pads had disappeared, so that each rib and every bone in his frame were outlined cleanly through the loose hide....
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