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.

Date:
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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    the alvine excretions, towards the latter part of the child's illness were unhealthy, offensive, and contained substances like pieces of flesh. He appeared to have recovered from this attack pretty well; but about a month afterwards the head was first observed to be enlarged, and it has gradually increased in size since. Present con- dition as follows:—general health not much disturbed, but face and surface generally anse- mitous and pale; no emaciation, bat flesh soft; sleep unquiet; bowels generally relaxed, but their excretions, and also the excretion of urine, stated to be natural in character; is still at the breast but will eat any solid food that is presented to it; appetite rather inordinate; pulse 126, and regu- lar; head large, circumference twenty-two inches and a half, from each meatus auditorius over the vertex fourteen inches and a half; no dilatation of the pupils, but considerable strabismus, and the eyes remain half open, and roll a great deal during sleep; anterior fontanel large, and of a crucial shape, where the cerebral movements are perceptible to the touch, and the cerebral murmur very audible on application of the ear. Has not had small-pox, measles, or any other of the eruptive fevers; was successfully vaccinated. Case IV. October 16, 1836.—Mrs. As in-