Softening of the stomach in children in Australia : with some observations on the disease in adults / by C.E. Reeves.

  • Reeves, C. E. (Charles Evans), 1828-1880.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Softening of the stomach in children in Australia : with some observations on the disease in adults / by C.E. Reeves. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    To the European pathologist the disease presents features of great interest, namely, that although, as in Europe, and particularly in England, it occurs as a secondary affection in diseases of the brain, chest, skin, and intestines in children, and in inflaniniation of the womb and peritoneum after child-birth ; in consumption, diseases of the heart, erysipelas, and in dysentery—yet is most commonly met with in chil- dren as a primaiy disease, brain, chest, and intestinal diseases being very liable to occur as secondary affec- tions, and they are nearly certain to cause the case to terminate fatally if the patient’s strength has been previously much reduced. This tendency of the disease to occur as a primary one, is, from what the writer has observed, entirely confined to chil- dren, for he has never seen it later than the fourth year. , It is essentially, both as a primary and as a secondary disease, confined to the hot months/ yet cases will be met with in the winter months in the low damp districts and in damp houses. They are not, however, common; and if met with, the weather wiU be generally found to be warm for the time of year and moist. This is the kind of weather mo.st favorable for its development in the badly-drained large European towns. “ Cheyne (Essays on Diseases of Children, ed. 1801) considered that it was a[it to occur during the autumnal months, particularly in sultry seasons. Jjeger (Hufeland’s Jour, der Pract. Arzneyhund,h(\.. xxix.) and Dr. Gairdener (Edin. Med. Ghir. Transact. 1826) are also of the same opinion. Pommer (Heidelhiiry, Klinik. Annal. 2 bd. 2 Heft., 1826), dry warm weather, alternating Avith cold showers or misty weather. The latter author has observed that it often exists in connection with e]>idemic diarrhoea. Cruveilhier (Med. Eclaree par I’Anulamie Patholo- gique) considered that it was apt to exist as an epidemic in the autumnal months, and to occur in connection with epidemic follicular enteritis. In several of the cases reported by Camerer (Magener-