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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    ally met the mother in the street, and on inquiring why she had not attended regularly, she told me that she felt wholly unequal to carrying the child so great a distance. She also stated, that the little patient had since become much worse : rest- less nights, with continual tossing of the head; and the child seemed to suffer much from general irritation. As the eruption had almost wholly disappeared, re-immersion in a bath, similar to that already described, was recommended, and she was requested to bring the infant on the next visiting day. August 8. The child was immersed in the bath as directed, but seemed to suffer so much from the irritation, that the immersion could not be continued longer than four or five minutes. The head considerably diminished in size. The scalp may now be wrinkled by pressing it with the hands from the ears up towards the vertex *. Bowels regular; and the alvine discharges more healthy and natural; eruption still present; sensi- bility increased; and the child is not so torpid and indifferent as it has lately been. Tempe- * The mother was saying, that the head had diminished very much in size, and on my asking if she had measured the head at different periods, she immediately verified her assertion by wrinkling the scalp in the manner described above.