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Definition of Cholera infantum
1. Noun. Often fatal form of gastroenteritis occurring in children; not true cholera but having similar symptoms.
Medical Definition of Cholera infantum
1. Old term for a disease of infants, characterised by vomiting, profuse watery diarrhoea, fever, prostration, and collapse. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cholera Infantum
Literary usage of Cholera infantum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1895)
"... of nucleated red corpuscles is attributed to the fact that in these cases the
fetal process of blood-formation persists. TREATMENT OF cholera infantum. ..."
2. A Treatise on the physical and medical treatment of children by William Dewees (1858)
"OF cholera infantum. 1402. THIS is a disease almost peculiar to the climate of
the United ... cholera infantum makes its approaches in different ways. ..."
3. The North American Medical and Surgical Journal (1826)
"THE great mortality of cholera infantum renders it one of the most interesting
diseases, ... I have often compared our endeavours to cure cholera infantum, ..."
4. Transactions by Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York (1879)
"cholera infantum covers too much ground, and I think this due to lack of diagnostic
acumen by us, ... cholera infantum has properly three stages : 2d stage. ..."
5. Baltimore Medical and Surgical Journal and Review edited by Eli Geddings (1833)
"V. Observations on cholera infantum. By NATHANIEL POTTER, MD Professor of ...
cholera infantum would seem to have been peculiar to these United States, ..."
6. The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery by Daniel Drake, Lundsford Pitts Yandell (1841)
"In the last number of the Journal I observe a recommendation of tee in cholera
infantum. It is the first and only instance in which I have seen this article ..."
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