On a morbid affection of infancy, arising from circumstances of exhaustion, but resembling hydrencephalus / by Marshall Hall.

Date:
1829
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    similar to those just detailed. I cannot but be sensible of the flattering manner in which he has alluded to my observations. As the cases and remarks of Dr. Gooch con- tain the only additional information upon the present subject which I have found in medical writings, I think it important to add some of them to those which I have already deduced from my own observation, and that of the gentlemen already quoted : “ A little girl, about two years old, small of her age, and very delicate, was taken ill with the symp- toms which I have above described. She lay dozing, languid, with a cold skin, and a pulse rather weak, hut not much quicker than natural. She had no disposition to take nourishment. Her sister having died only a week before of an illness which began exactly in the same way, and which was treated by leeches and purgatives ; and some doubts having been entertained by the medical attendant of the propriety of the treatment, leeches were withheld, but the child not being better at the end of two days, the parents, naturally anxious about their only surviving child, consulted another practitioner.