Commentaries on diseases of the stomach and bowels of children / by Robley Dunglison.

  • Dunglison, Robley, 1798-1869.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Commentaries on diseases of the stomach and bowels of children / by Robley Dunglison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nciso-genal and oculo-sygomatic traits, are a consequence of the action exerted upon the intestines by worms, and of the active participation of the brain, through the sym- pathetic excitement. I have seen M. Ja- delot, when attending a child labouring under cerebral disease, from a single inspec- tion of the features, and from an unusually marked state of the nasal trait, pronounce the disease to consist in an accidental com- plication of verminous atfections ; and ant- helminthics, given in consequence of this opinion, have occasioned the expulsion, in a few minutes, of several Ascarides lumbri- coides. Lavater, Avho had doubtless studied physiognomy sufficiently to enable him to analyze the cases presented to his notice, has confined himself to observing that he had frequently suspected the existence of Taenia at the first view of the countenance of a patient labouring under it. He has not, however, explained in what the alteration which he liad remarked in it consisted.