continued.—Close resemblance between inflammatory diarrhea and the
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of druinage, &o,
‘Treatment of simple diarrhoa—of disrrhow in connection with testhing—unso of


aeatmneat at inflammatory diarrhes—in its acute stage—treatment of certain symp


toms—ns the irritability of the stomach, the cerebral aymptome—indientions for
tho uso of stimulante—of ite—management of the chronic of
pate ee wlage—uso
‘Management of intertrigo excited by diarrkma—and of prolapsus ani.
Tuose of you who were present at yesterday's lecture could hardly
fail to be struck by the close resemblance which exists between the
severer forms of infantile diarrhwa and the true dysentery of the
adult. In both cases similar morbid appearances are discovered,
occupying the same parte of the intestinal canal; in both the
symptoms during life are almost identical, their resemblance being
disturbed mainly by the greater excitability of the nervous system
in early life; whence it arises that convulsions and other signs of
serious cerebral disorder are often observed in the infant affected
with diarrhea, while they are but seldom noticed in the adult
suffering even from severe dysentery. But this difference is one
of degree rather than of kind, since the morbid poison, whatever
be its natare, to which dysentery is due in the adult, produces in
favourable circumstances disorders of the nervous system analogous
-to those which we may have frequent opportunities of observing in
the infant. If dysentery, for instance, break out epidemically in
a large prison, the inmates of which have had the excitability of
their nervous system increased by the debilitating influence of
long confinement ; tremors, cramps, spasms, convulsions, or stupor,
may attend upon the affection, and death may take place under
symptoms that betoken disturbance of the brain or spinal cord.
