A report on the cerebral affections of infancy : with a few comments and practical remarks.

  • Copeman, Edward, 1809-1880.
Date:
1873
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Credit: A report on the cerebral affections of infancy : with a few comments and practical remarks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    issima est, haudquaquam vereor pronunciare, morbos illorum universes ejusdem generis esse, ab una eademque causa produci; quodque prout partes corporis diversse, sint superiores, sint inferiores, hac vel ilia aegritudine affici soleant; prout nempe ventriculus, intestina, pulmones, caput, et nervi, maxime augentur, aut male se habent, idem revera morbus quamplurima nomina sortiatur. Thus, according to his theory, all the diseases of children arise from one and the same cause, this being the natural humidity, or fluids of the body, degenerating into an acid. a Porro symptomata infantum singula acido, ut parenti legitimo, ortum suum debent. From these simple premises, he deduces an equally simple indication of treatment; namely, to neutralize the predominating acid by testaceous powders in large doses, and purge them off at intervals. The powders are to be given two or three times a day in some aromatic water; and every two or three days, an aperient of rhubarb alone, or mixed with cream of tartar, to remove the contents of the bowels. Several cases are narrated in which the effect of this treatment was remarkably beneficial in various acute diseases of infancy; and this comprises nearly the whole of what is to be learned from his book upon the subject of infantile diseases. In convulsions, Harris recommends bleeding under certain circumstances; but only in the intervals between the convulsive fits, and not during the fit;