RT Journal
A1 BRENNEMANN J
T1 FOod intoxication in infancy
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD February 27
VO LII
IS 9
SP 687
OP 693
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.25420350013001e
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.25420350013001e
AB We are all familiar with the fact that disturbances of the alimentary tract, such as indigestion, summer complaint, ileocolitis, cholera infantum, etc., are commonly accompanied by more or less profound nervous symptoms that in their totality make up the clinical picture of an intoxication. The babies thus affected are listless, drowsy, stuporous, heavy-eyed, with eyes fixed on vacancy, are hard to rouse and quickly sink back into their stupor, which in severe cases may amount to coma. They look as if under the influence of a drug, as if poisoned or intoxicated or "dopey." We have become so accustomed to thinking that such intoxications, characterized as they are by fever, leucocytosis, psychic depression, collapse and evidences of indigestion or enteritis, must be due to a bacterial toxin that a simpler explanation has escaped us. In a series of papers that will serve as models of profoundly critical and convincing scientific