Identifier: diseasesofinfa00kopl (find matches)
Title: The diseases of infancy and childhood
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Koplik, Henry, 1858- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Children
Publisher: New York and Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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t only is the painof neurotic origin, but also the distention is a result of paralysis ofthe muscular fibre of the intestine. The intestinal processes may bedisturbed as a result of the pneumonia. Colic may occur in breast-fed or in artificially fed infants. In the former it is not always pos-sible to discover the exact cause. The breast milk may be abundant,of good color, and of correct composition, and still there may be veryviolent colicky pains. In artificially fed infants the cause of thecolic may lie in the very nature of the food (cows milk) and the diffi-culty of complete assimilation. Thus an excess of fats in the milkcause colic. Symptoms.—An attack of colic is preceded by general uneasiness;the infant cries and cannot be quieted. The severe colicky pain isaccompanied by sharp cries, the arms and lower extremities are drawnup, and the abdomen is rigid. After the passing of gas the infantis quieted and falls asleep quite exhausted. These attacks of colic > XX Ixl < Oh
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r, <D -» j > > h (3) 0 > 0 - C) 0 Q) C/5 _I Q c ~ <- as q z 0) 0 r ~ DISEASES OF THE STOMACH AND INTESTINES. m deprive the infant of sleep; they may or may not be accompanied bytympanites. The movements are rarely normal, or may be normalfor some days and then take on a curdy character or become greenish.Sometimes the colicky attacks are accompanied by a mild form ofdiarrhoea; the pain may be so severe as to cause convulsions. Treatment.—See below under Tympanites. Tympanites.—Tympanites is a condition of distention of the in-testine with gas, which may supervene in inflammatory states of theperitoneum. In such conditions (peritonitis, appendicitis) the paral-ysis of the muscular wall of the intestine is the real cause of the dis-tention. In other states, such as pneumonia, it may be the result ofinefficient action of the diaphragm in not expelling the intestinalgases and of an enteric catarrh which sometimes accompanies thatdisease. In the newbo

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