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

  • Dunglison, Robley, 1798-1869.
Date:
1824
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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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    This has too much arisen from an idea that the diseases of young children cannot be satisfactorily investigated, from their not being able to describe their complaints, and that, consequently, the practice of the phy- sician is generally empirical. This is not, however, correct. To the experienced eye, the deviations from health are readily re- cognized. The state of the skin, secretions, excretions, tongue, eye, breath, fatness or leanness, gestures, cries, &c. &c. will suffi- ciently indicate the difference between the healthy and diseased condition. M. Jadelot, Physician to the Hdpital des Enfans trouves, an individual who has, perhaps, had greater opportunities than any other for observing the diseases of child- hood, has lately been the means of commu- nicating to the world his experience of what he terms La Semeiologie physiognomo- niquer in the study of the diseases of child- ren—a mode of discrimination of which M. de Salle, the author of the work in which it has appeared, has so high an opinion, that