On the nature, causes, prevention and treatment of acute hydrocephalus, or water-brain-fever / [Thomas Smith].

  • Smith, Thomas, 1813-1887.
Date:
1845
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Credit: On the nature, causes, prevention and treatment of acute hydrocephalus, or water-brain-fever / [Thomas Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    regimen herein indicated, they may hereafter avoid a repetition of the calamity, and rear a family no longer ce scarcely vital,” and born but to perish untimely before efflorescence, but vigorous and adapted for longevity. Nor must it be overlooked that, in adopting prophylactic measures to guard against the occur¬ rence of water - brain - fever, we are also taking effective means to prevent the accession of a host of formidable maladies, originating in the same peculiar condition of the system,—the strumous or serous diathesis. Thus it not infrequently hap¬ pens, that those who in infancy have escaped the fatal ravages of Hydrocephalus, have been unable to withstand the ruthless attacks of pulmonary consumption ; and at a time of life most interest¬ ing, have fallen victims to a disease which, with unerring certainty, destroys those who, at a former period of their existence, were more especially prone to the development of Hydrocephalic fever. Entertaining the views which I do of the nature of the disease, it may be objected to me that I should nevertheless retain the term Hydrocephalus. My motive for doing so is this. I consider that objections may, with the greatest propriety, be
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