Essays on the diseases of children : with cases and dissections / by John Cheyne. Essay 2, On the bowel complaints more immediately connected with the biliary secretion, and particularly of atrophia ablactorum, or weaning brash.

  • Cheyne, John, 1777-1836.
Date:
1802
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    ing is free, the child foon becomes cheerful, his appetite for food returns, he amufes himfelf, and feems perfectly recovered, and the hope of every one is raifed, only to make the difappoint- ment more keen ; for the child fuddenly gets worfe, and dies, his livid and fvvoln face and convulfive ftruggles giving him the appearance of one that is ftrangled. When Croup is favourable, it terminates in various ways. Moft commonly, after the dif- eafe has arrived at its height, the fequel is as it were a retrogreffion of the attack ; there is pour- ed out a moifture on the (kin, the fever declines, and the croupinefs, and, laftly, the cough, gra- dually wear away. When bleeding is ufed upon the commence- ment of the violent fymptoms, the relief is of- ten immediate ; and I have fcarcely believed that I faw the fame child breathing foftly, who ten minutes before lay gafping and convulfed. Sometimes, after the difeafe has continued a few days, a vifcid and white fubftance is expec- torated, and the child is relieved 3 : Sometimes the Croup is chronic, and does not fubfide for weeks, when the refolution is very gradual, the child now and then coughing up portions of this white membrane. 3 This does not always happen. See cafe 10, where the membrane was twice rejected, completely formed, and yet the child died. D