Practical remarks on disordered states of the cerebral structures occurring in infants / by Whitlock Nicholl.

  • Nicholl, Whitlock, 1786-1838.
Date:
1821
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Credit: Practical remarks on disordered states of the cerebral structures occurring in infants / by Whitlock Nicholl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sound, and to every object of sight; its temper is irritable; the Retina is highly sensible to light, so that the child quickly winks if its face be turned towards the window, or towards a candle ; the pupil is, in many instances, more or less, contracted, but this is not always the case ; the limbs are much in action ; the head is often moved about, or is shaken from side to side; the child cries without any apparent cause, and it is soothed only by tossing it, by carrying it about, by putting it to the breast, or by letting it suck the cheek of the nurse, or its own lingers ; the secretion of tears is, in many instances, increased, causing suffusion of the eyes, and redness of the edges of the Tarsi; the secretion of the Schneiderian membrane may be increased, causing a stuffed state of the nasal passages, producing sneezing, and exhibiting the appearance of that state which is, popularly, called a cold; the bowels are, in many cases, * relaxed, vet no disordered state of the stools may appear. During such a state as I have described, there may be a degree of animation, and a quickness of observation, much beyond what are commonly met with in children of the - ■ . ' r rare cr Cfcx tma same age. So that, although a morbid condi-
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