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 difeafe which I am now to confider, and which is the chief objed of the prefent paper, is fomewhat allied to the laft in its nature, and is vulgarly denominated in this part of Scotland The Weaning Brash 7. It is one of the moft fatal of the difeafes of children, and, as far as I know, it is overlooked by thofe phyficians who have made thefe difeafes their ftudy. It is an atrophy, the confequence of weaning children too fuddenly at an unfavourable feafon of the year. This difeafe fometimes comes on two or three days after weaning; frequently not for three or four weeks; fometimes not before five or fix weeks have elapfed. The firft fymptom is a purging, with griping pain, in which the dejeclions are ufually of a green colour. When this purging is neglecled, and, after continuing for fome time, there is added a retching, with or without vomiting j ' It is hoped that the nofological name which I have given to weaning brafh (viz. Atrophia Abladtatorum), as a literal tranflation of the vulgar one, and as placing this difeafe under the genus Atrophia, which, I prefume, is its natural fituation, will be deemed unexceptionable. Atrophia is the fecond genus of the third clafs of Cullen, who defines it, Marcor et af- thenia, fine pyrexia hed~tica. By Sauvages, in whofe very ufeful and comprehenGve fyftem of nofology it will be found as the third genus of the tenth clafs, it had been defined, Ma- cies fine febre.