A dissertation upon the cholera infantum : to which are added, rules and regulations, as preventive means of the autumnal diseases of children : which gained the Boylstonian prize, for the year 1803 / by James Mann.

  • Mann, James, 1759-1832.
Date:
1804
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    A DISSERTATION UPON THE CAUSES, THE NATURE, AND CURE OF AUTUM- NAL DISEASES OF INFANTS, AS PREVAIL- ING IN THE NEW-ENGLAND STATES. AS OR the want of a more appropriate name, we fliall, in this differtation, defignate the autumnal vomiting and purging of children, by the general denomination, Evacuationes alvin^e autumn- IALES INFANTUM. In connexion with thefe evacuations of vomit- ing and purging, we mean to include all thofe com- plaints of the alimentary canal, with which children are attacked, principally, in the months of July, Auguft, and September. The whole affemblage of thefe diforders will be confidered as one and the fame difeafe, as having their origin from the fame common caufes, and as being removed by the fame general remedies. Phyficians have viewed thefe complaints, as a regular autumnal epidemic ; and have believed, as the difeafe appears about that feafon when au- tumnal fevers prevail among adults, that it has one and the fame fource with thofe fevers. Thefe alvine evacuations have generally been de- nominated, by Nosologists, either conformably to what has been fuppofed the caufe of them, or B