INFANTILE DIARRHŒA AND VOMITING.

Infantile Diarrhœa

Infantile Diarrhœa

Sir,?In the course of my private practice I occasionally found that cases of infantile diarrhoea were often due to some fault in the milk of the mother's breast. There is a common belief among the rural people that infantile diarrhoea is due either to the seasonal wind or to the milk of the mother or to both. Investigation in a number of cases revealed that in some cases the secretion of milk w...

Infantile Diarrhœa

men are totally insufficient for the purpose.* I have recently endeavoured to put this side of the question on a firmer base, it being, I am persuaded, a point of the greatest importance in clearing up other parts of this complicated question. I have commenced by an examination of the effect of temperature upon infantile diarrhoeal mortality in London during the twelve years, 1857-68. I chose t...

Infantile diarrhoea and vomiting.

be considerably delayed. Thus, a normal chloride level is not incompatible with the diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis, for the level may become appreciably reduced only at an advanced stage in the disease process. Table 2 summarizes the important changes in the cerebro-spinal fluid. It will be seen that variations between the cellular and chemical responses are of great value in diagnosis, th...

Treatment of Infantile Diarrhœa with Phthalylsulphathiazole (M. & B.)