Classification of “Diarrhœa” deaths

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...

Clinical classification of cardiac deaths.

One hundred forty-two deaths among 743 men ages 50 - 65 years who had been examined and followed 5 - 10 years were investigated and classified on the basis of clinical information from medical and non-medical observers, ECGs and autopsies. A classification based on the condition of the circulation immediately before death appears to be most relevant to studies of sudden death. In 58% of the cas...

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...

Nutritional Diarrhœa