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REMARKS on the CAUSES and CURE of fame DISEASES 

 ./ INFANCY. By JOSEPH CLARKE, M. D. Ucentiate 

 in Phyfc of the Royal College of Phyfcians in Dublin, and 

 M. R. I. ^. 



It is now near feven years fince an effay of mine was read Read^Julyfi, 

 before this Academy, on the properties of human milk, the 

 changes it undergoes in digeftion, and the difeafes fuppofed 

 to originate from this fource in infancy. A variety of fads 

 and obfervations was then brought forward to render it 

 probable that the caufes, commonly alleged by writers to 

 produce moft of the difeafes of infants, are ill founded, nay, 

 do not exift ; and confequently that the remedies propofed for 

 their cure moft often prove ineffeaual. Since tlie above 

 period my attention has been very much direded to this 

 fubjea, and it is well known that my opportunities of expe- 

 rience have not been inconfiderable ; and yet I every day feel 

 more forcibly the evidence in favour of my former doubts. 

 Once more, therefore, I am tempted to folicit attention to 



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