Diseases of Infancy and Childhood

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F.A. Davis Company, 1915 - 947 pages
 

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Page 144 - Distilled water, 1 pint. Mix the lime and sugar by trituration in a mortar. Transfer the mixture to a bottle containing the water, and, having closed this with a cork, shake it occasionally for a few hours. Finally separate the clear solution with a siphon and keep it in a stoppered bottle.
Page 804 - The circulation is feeble, and whatever advance is made intellectually in the summer, some amount of retrogression may be expected in the winter. Their mental and physical capabilities are, in fact, directly as the temperature. The improvement which training effects in them is greatly in excess of what would be predicated if one did not know the characteristics of the type. The life expectancy, however, is far below the average, and the tendency is to the tuberculosis, which I believe to be the hereditary...
Page 942 - Former Instructor in Diseases of Children at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital ; Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, etc.
Page 158 - The common unit of heat is the calorie, which is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water through 1 degree Centigrade.
Page 198 - A scruple of gelatine (or a piece two inches square of the flat cake in which it is sold) is soaked for a short time in cold water, and then boiled in half a pint of water until it dissolves — about ten or fifteen minutes. To this is added, with constant stirring, and just at the termination of the boiling, the milk and arrowroot, the latter being previously mixed into a paste with a little cold water. After the addition of the milk and arrowroot, and just before the...
Page 877 - This new and simple test is based upon the following facts : (1) Albumin is coagulated by carbolic acid ; (2) Equal volumes of non-albuminous urine and a mixture, composed of equal parts of carbolic acid and glycerin, form an emulsion which clears up entirely upon agitation, leaving a perfectly transparent and highly refractive liquid ; (3) Equal volumes of albuminous urine and the above mentioned carbol-glycerin solution, when mixed together, produce a white turbidity, which remains, in spite of...
Page 127 - Have the herd examined at least twice a year by a skilled veterinarian. Promptly remove from the herd any animal suspected of being in bad health and reject her milk. Never add an animal to the herd until certain it is free from disease, especially tuberculosis. Do not allow the cows to be excited by hard driving, abuse, loud talking, or any unnecessary disturbance. Feed liberally, and use only fresh, palatable food stuffs.
Page 941 - REWRITTEN, REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION THIS volume presents in a concise manner a selection of the analytical methods employed in the clinical laboratory without burdening the reader with unnecessary detail, cumbersome methods, etc., which are extremely difficult and beyond the reach of the practitioner. Such new methods as have proven reliable have been introduced. Much of the material is entirely new, and many of the plates and cuts have been prepared from original drawings and photographs by...
Page 943 - By Theron Wendell Kilmer MD, Adjunct Attending Pediatrist to the Sydenham Hospital, Instructor in Pediatrics in the New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital, New York; Attending Physician to the Summer Home of St.
Page 127 - This first milk is watery and of little value, and during the intervals between milking the bacteria from the air get into the cow's teats and grow with great rapidity. These bacteria cause early souring of the milk. If in any milking a part of the milk is bloody or stringy or unnatural in appearance, the whole mass should be rejected.

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