An inaugural dissertation on cholera infantum : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost, the trustees and medical faculty, of the University of Pennsylvania, on the twenty-second day of May, 1798, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by Henry Disborough, of New Jersey, honorary member of the Philadelphia Chemical Society.

  • Disborough, Henry.
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May, 1798
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on cholera infantum : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost, the trustees and medical faculty, of the University of Pennsylvania, on the twenty-second day of May, 1798, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by Henry Disborough, of New Jersey, honorary member of the Philadelphia Chemical Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION O difeafes to which the human fpecies are fub- jecT:, in the different progreffive flages of life, more particularly claim our companion, and the extenfion of medical aid, than thofe which are incident to the period of infancy and childhood. Thegreatirritabilityof their delicate frames, andpar- ticularly the mifmanagement of thofe to whom the immediate care of them are intruded, render them the fubje&s of much pain and mifery.—So great is the mortality among children, efpecially in large cities, that it has been found from pretty accurate calculations, that above one half die within the firft four or five years.* The caufes and feats of infantile diforders are various : none of thefe difeafes are more common and diftrefling than thofe which affecl: the alimen- tary canal; of fuch importance has been deemed C * Gregory and Black. Comp. View-