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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    *3 frequently in adults as in children, with this dif- ference, that adults have the power of expecto- rating the lymphatic exudation before it be- comes a folid membrane. But if this were the cafe, we mould at leaft hear the croupy cough, and peculiar voice and breathing, for thefe pre- cede the formation of the membrane. Children of all ages up to puberty have died of Croup ; and yet a boy of ten, twelve, or fourteen years of age, has, as perfectly as ever he can have it, the power of expectoration. I have heard of no example of this difeafe after the fifteenth year ; and I have imagined this to depend on that change which happens in the conftitution at pu- berty, and perhaps, in a more peculiar manner, on the change which the upper part of the wind- pipe undergoes. That a very material alteration does take place, is evident from the change in the voice, which now becomes firm and manly. I therefore fuppofe, that the greater degree of tone with which the trachea is endowed, enables it to refill thofe excitements which would have operated on the fame organ in a lax and lefs per- rejicere negligunt; mox autem ilia ita increfcit, ut vires jam infantis ad earn rejiciendam non fufEciant. Credo itaque ru- dimenta, initiumque morbi noftri, in adultis non minus fre- quenter, ac in infantibus occurrere ; perfe£tum autem, atque completum morbum, cujus naturam membrana polypofa de- •* clarat, ob mox expofitas rationes, in adultiore setate rariorem « efie. P. 177.