A treatise on the infantile remittent fever / By William Butter.

  • Butter, William, 1726-1805.
Date:
1782
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Credit: A treatise on the infantile remittent fever / By William Butter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3° among other difeafes, to fymptoms of in- digeftion and fevers. Indeed this period of life, as it is the moft remarkable for irritability, fo it is for indigeftion. All the indifpofitions of children are attended with fymptoms of indigeftion. This is fo notorioufly the cafe, that phyficians now feldom look further than the fir ft paffagcs for the caufc of childrens diforders. It is certain that the fever, of which I am treating, arifes from no other caufe. It may be accelerated by cold, fatigue, or the like; but the principal caufes are crude accumulations in the firft paffages, which, with a very irritable predifpofition, draw the inteftinal canal into fpafm, which is loon communicated to the reft of the body, conftituting the fever. All the fymptoms are obvioufly and fa- tisfadlorily accounted for in this way : for we fee in practice, that, in proportion as the body is kept quiet and ftill, and the piorbid accumulation carried off, everyone of ' A «