A practical treatise on the remittent fever of infants, with remarks on hydrocephalus internus or water on the brain, and several other diseases: and cases and observations designed to illustrate the influence exerted by a certain disordered state of the chylopoietic viscera, upon local and constitutional diseases / [James Milman Coley].

  • Coley, James Milman.
Date:
1813
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Credit: A practical treatise on the remittent fever of infants, with remarks on hydrocephalus internus or water on the brain, and several other diseases: and cases and observations designed to illustrate the influence exerted by a certain disordered state of the chylopoietic viscera, upon local and constitutional diseases / [James Milman Coley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    attend diligently, and watch carefully the symptoms as they present themselves. Before the organs of speech and the reasoning facul¬ ties have been sufficiently evolved to render any account of symptoms uttered by the pa¬ tients intelligible, their tender age demands our particular regard : we should survey their sufferings with all the solicitude of parents without their fears ; and in order to administer relief, should not only direct the most efficient means, but should, if necessary, With prompt humanity put them into execution : laying aside all useless dignity and parade, and all affected delicacy. • • An injudicious compassion for the piercing distresses of children will sometimes induce their parents to interdict all attempts to afford relief; but as this will be found to proceed from an ignorance of the disorder, it will be i i * j * irI> proper to remonstrate with them, to point out • j i the cruelty of their conduct, and rescue the innocent sufferers by a steady pursuance of the most vigorous measures. On these dis¬ tracting and melancholy occasions the practi¬ tioner is expected not only to direct the medi¬ cal treatment, but is imperiously called upon