ON THE WASTING DISEASES OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN BY EUSTACE SMITH, M.D. LOND. MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS PHYSICIAN-EXTRAORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE BELGIANS •BOD LONDON JAMES WALTON BOOKSELLER AND PUBLISHER TO UNIVERSITY COLLEGE 137, GOWER STREET 1868. 157. n. 103. ΤΟ SIR WILLIAM JENNER, BART., M.D., D.C.L., F.R.S. This Volume is Inscribed WITH RESPECT AND GRATITUDE BY THE AUTHOR PREFACE. 66 THE extensive use of such terms as marasmus," "tabes," "atrophy," 'atrophy," as denoting vaguely some slow disease fatal to children, affords a strong presumption that diseases of which wasting is a prominent symptom, are but little understood; and that much loss of life is due to insufficient knowledge of their nature. The Author had not long begun the study of children's diseases before he found that even the best systematic treatises dealt but imperfectly with the clinical condition of chronic wasting, and did not consider together-in the way required for every-day use in practice—the various disorders to which it may be due. He was, accordingly, induced to devote considerable attention to this subject, with the view of forming some practical classification, by means of which the diseases giving rise to this slow wasting might be more readily recognised and controlled. |