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Remarks on the Subject of Lactation By: Edward Morton |
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LACTATION, &c. &c. REMARKS ON THE SUBJECT OF LACTATION; CONTAINING OBSERVATIONS ON THE HEALTHY AND DISEASED CONDITIONS OF THE BREAST MILK;
THE DISORDERS FREQUENTLY PRODUCED
IN MOTHERS BY SUCKLING; AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIVE CASES; PROVING THAT, WHEN PROTRACTED, IT IS A COMMON
CAUSE, IN CHILDREN, OF HYDRENCEPHALUS, OR WATER IN THE BRAIN, AND OTHER SERIOUS COMPLAINTS.
BY EDWARD MORTON, M.D. CANTAB. FELLOW OF THE CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, AND MEMBER OF TRINITY
COLLEGE; CANDIDATE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS,
LONDON; LATE PHYSICIAN TO THE WESTERN DISPENSARY,
AND TO THE ROYAL METROPOLITAN
INFIRMARY FOR CHILDREN, &c. &c.
LONDON: LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN,
PATERNOSTER ROW. MDCCCXXXI.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES,
STAMFORD STREET.
TO SIR HENRY HALFORD, BART., M.D., F.R.S., F.A.S., PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, LONDON,
PHYSICIAN TO THE KING, &c. &c. THE FOLLOWING PAGES ARE, WITH HIS PERMISSION, AND WITH A GRATEFUL SENSE OF THE HONOUR THUS CONFERRED UPON THEIR
AUTHOR, MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.
PREFACE.
Several cases which I witnessed led me to believe, some years ago, that
inflammation of the brain, or its membranes, might be produced in
children, owing to their being suckled for an undue length of time.
Since that period, having enjoyed opportunities of observing infantile
diseases on a much more extended scale, and my attention being expressly
directed to the point in question, I not only became fully convinced of
the correctness of my previous conclusions, but was induced to carry
them still farther. My opinions on this subject were briefly drawn up and published in the
Medical and Physical Journal for August 1827, and have not passed
altogether unnoticed by my professional brethren[1], some of whom have
done me the honour to speak of them in flattering terms, while no one, I
believe, has attempted to disprove the existence of the important fact I
was the first to announce. [1] Vide Medico Chirurgical Review, Gazette of Health, Dendy on
Cutaneous Diseases, &c. The bare statement of that fact was, indeed, nearly all that my
approaching departure from England, at the time last mentioned, left in
my power: upon the present occasion I have offered arguments for, and
endeavoured to anticipate those against, the deductions I then made
public; and however imperfect may have been my success in either, the
welfare of society at large is too deeply involved in the establishment
of my opinions with respect to the custom I condemn, (if those opinions
be correct,) for me to hesitate while again committing them to the press
in a more extended form. These considerations, I respectfully submit, will render any apology for
the appearance of the following pages unnecessary, and will, I trust,
secure for them a candid and favourable reception from the Profession
and the Public. 15, Eaton Street, Grosvenor Place,
October 8, 1831.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Page
Of the Breast Milk, &c. &c. 1
CHAPTER II. On Lactation, and the Disorders frequently produced in
Women by that process 14
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