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this fubjed, by fubmitting the following remarks, however 

 curfory and imperfedl, to public confidcration : They relate 

 principally to four difeafes, viz. 



I. Diarrhoea, accompanied with much griping and green 

 ftools. 



II. Obflinate coftivenefs. 



III. Nine day fits, or convulfions in early infancy. 



IV. Cutaneous eruptions. 



As it can be of no ufe to repeat what preceding writers 

 have faid on thefe fubjeds, I fliall confine niyfelf to fuch 

 remarks as are not commonly to be met with in print. 



In the eflTay above mentioned * I endeavoured to prove that 

 green ftools in infancy are not to be confidered as fure figns 

 of the exiftence of a fuperabundant acid in the ftomach and 

 inteftines ; at that time I was totally ignorant of their nature. 

 An accident firft fuggefted to me new ideas on this fubjedl. 

 A lady of very acute talents took it into her head that the 

 milk of a nurfe in her fervice did not agree with her infant. 

 One night this infant, after fuffering a great deal of griping, 

 pafled a remarkably green ftool, which the mother confidered 



as 



• See Tranfadiens of the Royal Irifli Academy for the year 1788. 



