A common, noncontiguous diarrhea of young children, occurring in summer or autumn. It was common among the poor and in hand-fed babies. Death frequently occurred in three to five days. Saint Vitus' dance. May be called Huntingdon's Chorea or Huntingdon's Disease.
Infantile colic is benign paroxysmal abdominal pain during the first three months of life.
Colic rarely caused death. Renal colic can occur from disease in the kidney, gallstone colic from a stone in the bile duct. An excessive or abnormal accumulation of blood or other fluid in a body part or blood vessel. In congestive fever the internal organs become gorged with blood. Commonly called a heart attack .