Miscellaneous contributions to pathology and therapeutics : being a series of original and practical papers on rickets, hydrocephalus, impotence and sterility, pulmonary apoplexy, and haemoptysis, &c. &c. / by James Richard Smyth.

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1844
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Credit: Miscellaneous contributions to pathology and therapeutics : being a series of original and practical papers on rickets, hydrocephalus, impotence and sterility, pulmonary apoplexy, and haemoptysis, &c. &c. / by James Richard Smyth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    much reduced in size, and softer; liver lessened considerably, but still projects below the margin of the chest. Continue the mixture, powders, and diet, as prescribed, and let the child have a warm bath twice a week. I saw this patient once again after some little time, when her health was all but completely restored. The countenance had acquired colour and animation, and she had become plump and active; she slept soundly, and the alvine and urinary excretions were healthy; circulation and respiration the same; the liver was further reduced in size, but still to be felt under the right hypochondrium, but not at the pit of the stomach ; the cerebral murmur had ceased to he audible on auscultation of the cranium at any point. Case III. August 17th, 1838. William Rogers, aged nineteen months, of light hair, light complexion, and blue eyes, was strong and healthy till he was eight months old, when he had an attack of illness of six weeks' duration, which his medical attendant pronounced to be inflammation of the lungs. This attack consisted chiefly in feverishness, with cough and much disorder of the bowpl<= Tl)« mother states that