The mother's medical guide in children's diseases / by William A. Alcott.

  • William Alcott
Date:
1845
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Credit: The mother's medical guide in children's diseases / by William A. Alcott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    what frequent, but says nothing of the treatment, which, of course, belongs to the surgeon. I have never seen any thing of the kind, nor do I recollect of any other author who mentions it. He speaks, in the same paragraph, of itching of the nose in this complaint — a common symptom, as every body knows, of ascarides, — whether there is, or is not, polypus. Softening of the Stomach. A new and very fatal disease has sprung up in Europe within the last ten years, which the physi- cians call Gastro-malacia, or a softening of the stomach. The infant is seized with great febrile heat, and with vomiting and purging of a serous and somewhat acid matter. The features shrivel, the eyes sink, and life goes out often in twenty-four hours. In a milder form, it may continue several weeks. I do not learn that any of those who are afflicted with it recover, or that any instance of it has, as yet, occurred in this country. As it will probably reach us, however, in due time, and as it more generally attacks children under the age of twelve months, it may be interesting to mothers to know that such a disease is in existence, and some- times proves epidemic.