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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    ate name among the vulgar, and yet that it was not known to thofe phyiicians whom I confult- ed reflecting its nature. Some of them had ob- ferved a purging as a very common confequence of weaning; but they fuppofed that it arofe from teething: Others told me, that it arofe from a mefenteric enlargement in fcrophulous children: And until I could fatisfy myfelf by diiTe&ion, I refted on this latter fuppofkion. I was the more inclined to this opinion, in confequence of having obferved a fcrophulous enlargement of the lymphatic glands in the neck, and a fcrophulous fuppuration in the part of illustration, in explaining the nature of a difeafe ; for I have always found it more fatisfa£tory to read a cafe, well and clinically taken, than the mod elaborate general hiftory of the fymptoms of a difeafe; a detail which, however accurate, does not fix the attention, and is ufeful only after the difeafe in queftion is underftood, from having feen or read of examples of it. The obfcurity and difficulty attending the diagnostics and treatment of the difeafes of children, proceed from this more than from any thing, that the writers on thefe difeafes have hardly one cafe from the beginning of their books to the end. Surely the infancy of the patient does not prevent an accurate and full cafe from being taken r Should the ftudent wifh to attain an early knowledge of this branch of his profef- fion, he will find nothing fo ufeful as the keeping of cafe books for the infertion of every important variety of difeafe. There are indeed fome notices of weaning brafh ; but they do not identify it as a particular difeafe ; at leaft, I fhould not have difcovered them as fuch, had I not been reading exprefsly for the fubject.