In two cases where suckling was protracted to three years, the subjects of this baneful practice did not equal in size an ordinary child of half their age. One of them became idiotic, and afterwards died of Hydrencephalus, under my care; the other was affected with Tabes Mesenterica,—the result I did not witness—but believe the disease terminated fatally.
E (page [25]).
Vide Medical and Physical Journal for August 1827.
F (page [25]).
That is, any period beyond nine or ten months.
G (page [25]).
Meningitis,—I use this term as being more pathologically correct than Cephalitis, which I formerly adopted.
H (page [26]).
See the above conditional sense in which I employ this term.