Clinical report on dropsies : with observations explanatory of their pathology and therapeutics ; with an appendix on the theory and treatment of organic disease in general / by Robert Venables.

  • Venables, Robert, M.D.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Clinical report on dropsies : with observations explanatory of their pathology and therapeutics ; with an appendix on the theory and treatment of organic disease in general / by Robert Venables. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    stage: but that dropsies may exist independently of organic disease, I think, will be abundantly proved in this report. CASE IV. Thomas Johnson, aged 14 months, an ema^ ciated child, with enlarged head and joints, clear eyes, and prominent forehead. — Dispensary. July 13, 1823. The head so large for the age and bulk of this child, as to be quite remarkable \ the head hung in a pendulous manner either upon its own shoulders or the breast of its mother, as if the muscles were incapable of supporting the weight in an erect posture. The scalp was extremely tense, and seemed stretched from distention by the internal contents of the cranium. Although the eyes were not intolerant of light in the proper sense of the expression, yet exposure gave some uneasiness, as indicated by the restlessness and tossing of the head, on ad- mitting the light to the face. The temperature of the surface was elevated, but not in a very great degree. At night there were pyrexial ac- cessions, which the mother described by saying that the child got into a burning fever; pulse extremely rapid; respiration but little affected;