Produced by Bryan Ness, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) REMARKS ON THE SUBJECT OF 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.