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.

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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    Although the above expose of M. Jade- lot's physiognomical system is, as was pre- viously observed, very short and imperfect, the principal views of that physician may have been rendered intelligible to the reader. That they are somewhat too utopical, is evi- dent. They can never lead to a discrimina- tion between all those diseases which he has mentioned; as, for instance, between the annoyance occasioned by worms and any other source of irritation in the intestinal tube; but that an attentive examination of the anatomical expression of an infant's countenance will materially assist us in the diagnosis of the seat of a disease under which it may be labouring—for example, whether it be in the head or lower belly, no one who has paid any attention to the subject can doubt. There is a marked dif- ference in the expression of the counte- nance which indicates the presence of vio- lent pain in these two situations, even in the adult: lesser degrees of it are of course dis- regarded ; and it is only in severe afFec-