. Medical diseases of infancy and childhood. Semi-diagrammatic drawings to illustrate the three chief types of abnormality of the sigmoidflexure, which are the source of habitual constipation in infants. Fig. 61, Ascending position;Fig. 62, transverse position. at the anus, where it may be diagnosed by physical examination, orin the upper part of the intestine, jejunum, duodenum, or ileum,when diagnosis is difficult, if not impossible. The first-named con-dition is due to a developmental defect; the second, probably, tofoetal peritonitis or enteritis. Symptomatic constipation accompanies (a) f
. Medical diseases of infancy and childhood. Semi-diagrammatic drawings to illustrate the three chief types of abnormality of the sigmoidflexure, which are the source of habitual constipation in infants. Fig. 61, Ascending position;Fig. 62, transverse position. at the anus, where it may be diagnosed by physical examination, orin the upper part of the intestine, jejunum, duodenum, or ileum,when diagnosis is difficult, if not impossible. The first-named con-dition is due to a developmental defect; the second, probably, tofoetal peritonitis or enteritis. Symptomatic constipation accompanies (a) fever when it is at-tributed to arrest of secretions, and is apt to be followed by diarrhoeadue to enteritis set up by putrid decomposition of the retained faeces ;(b) nervous diseases, such as meningitis, when it is believed to bedue to defective peristalsis ; or (c) peritonitis. Alimentary constipation is observed in infants fed on cows is characterized by the passage once a day, or once in two or threedays, of large, pasty, firm,
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