Practical observations on the nature and treatment of marasmus, and of those disorders allied to it, which may be strictly denominated bilious / By Joseph Ayre.

  • Joseph Ayre
Date:
1818
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Credit: Practical observations on the nature and treatment of marasmus, and of those disorders allied to it, which may be strictly denominated bilious / By Joseph Ayre. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    altending it; and it appears, independent of the authority by which its employment comes re- commended, to be as appropriate for it as any other perhaps that could be chosen, for it excludes the admission of all hypothesis, at the same time that it implies, very properly, the absence of organic disease, and is, therefore, in reference to this fact, sufficiently distinctive of every form of the complaint. It has, however, I believe, been hitherto regarded as peculiar to children and infants, though, if the views which I have taken of it be correct, there 1s no essential difference be- tween the marasmus of children, and that dis- order of adults which may be strictly denomi- nated’ bilious, either in the nature, or in the causes, or in the means of cure. It varies somewhat, indeed, in its appearances, and in the intensity of its symptoms, as well as in the modes of its termination, but these variations are slight and may justly be considered as only modifications of the same con nplaint, originating from the influence of constitutional causes, and
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