Commentaries on diseases of the stomach and bowels of children / by Robley Dunglison.

  • Dunglison, Robley, 1798-1869.
Date:
1824
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Commentaries on diseases of the stomach and bowels of children / by Robley Dunglison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    PREFATORY OBSERVATIONS. Minimi dubium est, aegritudinem puerilium curationeni exquisitam perind^ omnibus exoptandam esse, ac aliud quicquam quod in arte raedic^ hactenus desiderari videatur. Nec modo viri opulenti, qui terraruni et lati- fundiorum amplissimorum haredes aut exoptant, aut sospites conservare vo- lunt, in hkc replurimiun ponunt, verum et parentes universi ^op'pj fere invin- cibili erga sobolem suam exardescunt, atque in tutelam eorura tanqukm pro- priam suspirant. Quamobrem si facem utut exiguani niihi detur accendere, qui alii egregiis aninii dotibus ornati opus hoc t^m imperfectum limato suo ingenio perpoliant, ac magis absolutum reddant, incoepti neutiqu^m poeni- tebit, et boiii id ego consulam. Haiiris, dc Morhis acniisInfantuvi, p. 3. The reflections suggested by Harris in the above quotation are such as have pos- sessed the Author of the following pages. It has been a general complaint that, whilst the diseases of adults have monopolized the attention of professional writers, those of childhood—a period of the greatest disease and mortality, and during which, many in- dividuals who, if permitted to live, might have proved most useful and ornamen- tal members iA society, are prematurely snatched from existence—liave been com- paratively neglected.