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

  • Hall, Marshall, 1790-1857.
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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    MORBID AFFECTION OF INFANCY. I have watched, with peculiar care, many cases of a morbid affection incident to infancy, which generally arises from circumstances of exhaustion, but resembles, in many of its symp- toms, the earlier and especially the later stages of hydrencephalus. As this affection has not been noticed by practical writers as it deserves, I think the following brief account of it cannot prove uninteresting to the profession. I first gave a cursory sketch of this morbid affection in a little volume of Medical Essays published in 1825, but now out of print. It has since been briefly noticed by Dr. Abercrombie in his valuable Researches on Diseases of the