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An essay on hydrocephalus acutus, or dropsy in the brain / [John Cheyne].

  • Cheyne, John, 1777-1836
Date:
1808
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Credit: An essay on hydrocephalus acutus, or dropsy in the brain / [John Cheyne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    uncertain ; in some cases in the second, and also'in the third variety of the attack, it ap- pears to run its course in a few days; and I have known it in the first variety, from the great length of the first stage, last many weeks ; _but the result of my observation, even in this variety, has been in favour of the more limited period of Dr. Fothergill. ¥n children at the breast we do not so rea- dily distinguish the attack of Hydrocephalus ; we indeed see somewhat of the expression ; we observe the child moaning, feverish, watch- ful, frowning ; the expression of pain not vio- lent. ‘The disease evidently not from any dis- order in the breast or bowels, for the respira- tory organs are unaffected, and there is not the flinging out of the limbs, and extreme im- patience, which children evince in colic or griping’ pain. The Hydrocephalic stools dif. , fer from those attending any of the bowel com- plaints of children at the breast: and in no ee ee er ee Pe ER ISTE SCO ** lus) was not confined to children, or such as were under ** puberty, for he imagined that he had seen it two or three ‘* times in adults, and gave me the following case, where ihe ** dissection put it beyond a doubt,” &c. This is.a proof that Dr. F othergill drew his account of the disease from child- ren alone. And so far from this being a more rapid disease, if we may judge from cases on record, it is in adults some- times more tedious. Consult on the subject Memoirs of Mes dical Society, Vol. VII. p. 173. Cg