SULPHITE OF LIME IN CHOLERAIC 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

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...

A Case of Choleraic Dysentery

tailor and a fellow tailor brought him to my dispensary for treatment. On admission the patient appeared to be a typical case of cholera. The cheeks were hollowed with prominent zvgoma, the nose pinched and the eyes sunken and the skin of the fingers shrivelled. He \vas passing profuse and red-coloured watery stools. There was complete suppression of urine. The respiration was rapid. He could n...

Nutritional Diarrhœa