cholera infantum

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[in-fan-tuhm] / ɪnˈfæn təm /

noun

Pathology.

1. an often fatal form of gastroenteritis occurring in infants, not of the same cause as cholera but having somewhat similar characteristics.

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Etymology

Origin of cholera infantum

1820–30, < New Latin: cholera of infants

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cholera infantum

Should a child in that home show symptoms of cholera infantum it would be imperative for that mother to begin at once home treatments.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson

These troubles occur most frequently during the summer months, especially with infants and children, as in cholera infantum and summer complaint.

From Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying by Russell, H. L. (Harry Luman)

The effect of the sea-air upon a child sick with the summer scourge of the tenements, cholera infantum, is little less than miraculous.

From The Children of the Poor by Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)

Cuphea does not act with equal promptness in all forms of cholera infantum.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

Prof. J. Lewis Smith has made a great many autopsies of children dead from cholera infantum, and almost invariably found the stomach and liver in a comparatively healthy condition.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 by Various