On a morbid affection of infancy, arising from circumstances of exhaustion, but resembling hydrencephalus / by Marshall Hall.

Date:
1829
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Credit: On a morbid affection of infancy, arising from circumstances of exhaustion, but resembling hydrencephalus / by Marshall Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    should be prepared to watch and treat the morbid affections of this young and tender age. The subject must be taken up and investigated anew. All the affections which may arise from exhaustion, must be accurately observed, distinguished from similar affections arising from other causes, and traced back to their origin, and forward in relation to their remedies. In this manner some hydren- cephaloid, convulsive, and even croupy affections will be viewed in a new aspect; and we shall be preserved from some painful dilemmas into which we should assuredly fall without this knowledge of the effects of exhaustion. But in this essay I purpose to confine my observations to one of the forms of disorder which arise from this cause,—the hydrencephaloid. It may be divided into two stages, the first that of irritability, the second that of torpor; in the former there appears to be a feeble attempt at re-action, in the latter the nervous powers appear to be more prostrate. These two stages resemble, in many of their symptoms, the first and second stages of hydrencephalus respectively. This morbid affection has, as I have stated, usually been first induced by some change in