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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    pect of advantage to be derived from atten- tion to the state of the digestive organs, or from the employment of any external means, it is our duty to persevere; for I am con- vinced that many children are lost through the ignorant apprehensions and despair of the attendants, and the irresolution of the medical practitioner. By unremitting attention and perseverance, and with the risk of my reputa- tion, I have rescued many infants, who by others had been pronounced past recovery, and by the natural and unrestricted progress of the disease must certainly have perished. • The manner in which I have represented mercury to operate in removing Hydrocepha- lus internus may appear singular or improb- able to those who are in the habit of ascribing it’s cure to the power of absorption, which it may be supposed to have promoted. I en- tertain much doubt whether an effusion in the brain can possibly be removed so rapidly, ij it ever be removed by this process, as some- times appears to have happened ; because we have not yet any satisfactory evidence of the existence of absorbent vessels in this organ. And further, it is not improbable that the ef~