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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    the diseases to which they are referrible are more or less intense or chronic. The first mentioned trait is the index of disorders of the cerebro-nervous system ; the second, and its accessary, signalize those of the digestive passages and of the abdo- minal viscera ; the third, is the concomitant of diseases of the heart and air passages. Speaking generally, they are all the outward signs of lesions of the great splanch- nic cavities. The oculo-sygomatic trait is strongly marked in all tiiose diseases whose primary seat is in the brain or nerves. It is like- wise observable whenever these organs ac- tively participate in affections which were in the first instance foreign to them : but at such times a coincidence of some other facial line is found, which indicates the complica- tion Thus, for instance, it is said, that the moment at which inflammation of the lungs, or catarrh, becomes converted into neurosis, or at which a common cough becomes that of pertussis, is marked upon the child's coun-