A dissertation upon the cholera infantum : to which are added, rules and regulations, as preventive means of the autumnal diseases of children : which gained the Boylstonian prize, for the year 1803 / by James Mann.

  • Mann, James, 1759-1832.
Date:
1804
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Credit: A dissertation upon the cholera infantum : to which are added, rules and regulations, as preventive means of the autumnal diseases of children : which gained the Boylstonian prize, for the year 1803 / by James Mann. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IO agreeably to the form they have affirmed : and as it is has been apprehended, that they have their origin moil generally from a redundance of bile in the alimentary canal, the difeafe has obtained, for its generic name, Cholera, from xoK*> bills, bile. When thefe evacuations alfume a form, in which there is an inverted motion of the whole inteflinal canal from the mouth to the anus, accompanied with an inverted motion of all the lymphatics which empty into it, the difeafe is called Pajfio Iliaca, from a fuppofition that the difeafe has its feat in the Ilium. When thefe evacuations take upon themfelves a form in which aliments are fcarcely changed by the digeflive powers, and purgings fupervene immediately upon nutriment being received into the ftomach, the difeafe is denominated, Lienteria, from Ae<o? flippery, and Ey%fCY interline. When the purgings affume an appearance, as if raw flefh had been waihed in wa- ter, thefe evacuations are named Hepatirrbtza, from HTaf the liver, and Pwo to flow, upon a fup- pofition, that they flowed from the liver. When thefe evacuations are white, from a belief, that chyle is evacuated, the difeafe has obtained the name, Caliaca, from Koiktx ftomach, where the chyle is formed, as has been fuppofed. When thefe purgings are wholly or moflly blood, black, or dark, the difeafe has been named MeA/ara black>, this Hate has been thought to originate from a vitiated and malignant bile. When thefe evacua- tions are accompanied with gripes and tenefmus, the difeafe is denominated dyfenteria, from Ave bad, and E/ltfor interline. Thefe evacuations, in their moft fimple form, are deiignated diarrhaa, from A/a, and Vta, to run through. Many of thefe names being too indeterminate, and not accurately expreffive of the nature of the difeafes, which they were intended to reprefent, are now out of ufe;