In severe cases, toxic megacolon may occur along with the deceiving findings of âimproved diarrhea.â A dramatic clinical picture of marked colonic distention, peritoneal irritation, fever, and elevated white blood count, and lactic acidosis is commonly found. Hypoalbuminemia, hypovolemia, and ascites are common.
Charles Darwin is Born. Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England on 12 February 1809 at his family home, the Mount. He was the fifth of six children of wealthy society doctor and financier Robert Darwin, and Susannah Darwin (nee NÃ©e). wedgwoodharles Darwin is Born. Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England on 12 February 1809 at his family home, the Mount. He was the fifth of six children of wealthy society doctor and financier Robert Darwin, and Susannah Darwin (nee NÃ©e). wedgwood
Painting of seven-year-old Charles Darwin in 1816. Both families were largely Unitarian, though the Wedgwoods were adopting Anglicanism. Robert Darwin, himself quietly a freethinker, had baby Charles baptised in November 1809 in the Anglican St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury, but Charles and his siblings attended the Unitarian chapel with their mother.