Essays on the diseases of children : with cases and dissections. Essay II, on the bowel complaints more immediately connected with the biliary secretion, and particularly of atrophia ablactatorum, or weaning brash / by John Cheyne.

  • Cheyne, John, 1777-1836.
Date:
1802
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Credit: Essays on the diseases of children : with cases and dissections. Essay II, on the bowel complaints more immediately connected with the biliary secretion, and particularly of atrophia ablactatorum, or weaning brash / by John Cheyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The liver mows its healthy or difeafed ftate by the nature and effects of the bile which it fecretes. To adopt the arrangement of Bianchi, this fecretion, in a morbid ftate, may be redun- dant, diminifhed or altogether obftrucled, or depraved. In the difeafes, of which I am about to treat, it will be found in all thefe ftates. In the difeafe, which I have termed the Atrophia Abla&atorum, in the firft place, it will be found fuperabundant, and eventually it will appear to be pofieffed of unufual acrimony. In the Icterus Infantum, there is often a complete obftrudtion to the paflage of the bile. Taking thefe difeafes in the order of time in which they occur, I fhall firft mention that fpe- cies of jaundice which attacks infants a few days after birth. This is always an alarming dif- eafe ; for when infants do recover, it is with great difficulty. It generally comes on about the third day after birth; for it is necefiary that this time mould elapfe before the complete ab- forption, and fubfequent deposition of the bile into the blood, can take place. It is attended with languor, flatulence, and bilious urine, and continues many days, or even weeks: Some- times it goes gradually away, but generally ends in a fatal marafmus. When this difeafe is fatal, it, in all probabi- lity, is fo from an original malconformation in the liver; for we do not find, upon difiection,