Medical commentaries on puerperal fever, vermination, and water in the head / [John Alexander].
- Alexander, John
- Date:
- 1836
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Medical commentaries on puerperal fever, vermination, and water in the head / [John Alexander]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![it is the most dangerous variety of Vermination, as it oftener leads to convulsions and death than any other. And the following practical fact should never be forgotten—that the non-detection in a child’s evacuations of any worm, is, by no means, conclusive evidence of the child being free from them. Therefore, if a young person labour under verminative symptoms, we should continue exhi- biting appropriate medicines, although apparently without effect, as it has, by Dr. Armstrong, been well observed, that worms may be so changed pre- vious to expulsion, as not to be recognisable. Vermination gives rise to sijmpathetic affections of the brain—the heart—the lungs—the stomach—and t]ie bladder. An instance of the first of these sym- pathetic affections commences this paper; and, since its occurrence, I have met with several similar ones, although none, perhaps, so calculated to mislead. It becomes, then, a matter of practical importance to ascertain those combinations of symptoms which will lead the junior practitioner to suspect, at least, the existence of Vermination when operating as a cause of disorder. And, with that end in view, the following observations, brief though they be, may not altogether prove unserviceable. If a child, who has exhibited a fretful temper, nas been irregular in its bowels, and has a tumid abdomen with slimv evacuations, be attacked with cerebral symptoms, they should almost exclusively](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29313065_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
