Note 11 — OBSERVATIONS ON ABORTION.
Reading edition
In these circumstances I have sometimes found the children liable to a formidable disease, described by Dr. Heberden, in his little treatise on the diseases of children, “Cap. De Duritie Cutis.” I have met with this oftener than once in the same family, until the constitution of the mother was attended to, on the principle I have mentioned, after which the children were healthy.