The Diseases of Infancy and Childhood: For the Use of Students and Practitioners of MedicineD. Appleton and Company, 1911 - 1112 pages |
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abdominal abscess acid acute affected amount anæmia asphyxia associated attacks autopsy blood bones bronchi bronchitis broncho-pneumonia catarrhal cause cells cent cerebral chest chiefly child chronic condition congenital constipation convulsions cow's milk cyanosis death deformity diagnosis diarrhoea digestion diphtheria disease disturbances doses dyspnoea early empyema enlarged eruption especially extremities fatal feeding fluid frequently glands gonococcus hæmorrhage hydrocephalus important increase indigestion infection inflammation intestinal irritation kidney larynx lesions less leucocytosis lung lymph marked measles meningitis months mucous membrane mucus muscles muscular nephritis nervous normal nursing occasionally occurs older children onset otitis ounces pain paralysis patient peritonitis pharynx pleurisy pneumonia present prognosis protein pulmonary rare recovery respiration result rickets scarlet fever seen severe skin slight sometimes spasm stomach stools sugar suppuration symptoms syphilis temperature tion tissue tonsils treatment tuberculosis tuberculous tumour ulcers urine usually vomiting weeks young infants
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Page iii - The Diseases of Infancy and Childhood, for the use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine, by L. EMMETT HOLT, AM, MD, Professor of Diseases of Children in the College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University), New York; Attending Physician to the Babies...
Page 312 - In the milk feces of nurslings Escherich found two germs ; the one he called bacterium lactis aerogenes (or bacterium aceticum Baginsky) and the other the bacterium coli commune. In the meconium he found proteus vulgaris, streptococcus, coli gracilis, and bacillus subtilis. Number of Stools. The number of stools during the first two weeks is from three to six daily ; after the first month two stools •daily is the average, many infants have one, others three stools daily; that is largely due to...
Page 94 - ... than those of the female. His hind body is somewhat flattened, rather widest behind, and ends with a conical horn. His hind legs are flattened, much wider than those of the female, and of a blackish color; the other legs are rustcolored, and more or less shaded with black. The length of his body varies from three quarters of an inch to one inch and a quarter; and his wings expand from one inch and a quarter to two inches, or more. An old elm-tree in this vicinity used to be a favorite place of...
Page 288 - I regard this as a most important subject, for it is perhaps the source of more discomfort and the origin of more minor ailments than almost any other pathological condition of childhood.
Page 346 - During cool weather neither the mortality nor the health of the infants observed in the investigation was appreciably affected by the kind of milk or by the number of bacteria which it contained.
Page 905 - ... rapid rise of temperature, and soreness of the throat. After the vomiting is repeated, it is frequently forcible and without nausea. In severe cases the rise of temperature is very rapid, to 104 degrees or 105 degrees, and in the mildest cases it may not be more than 101 degrees. Eruption. — Eruption usually appears from twelve to thirtysix hours after the first symptoms of the invasion, exceptionally not until the third or even until the fifth day. A later appearance than this is somewhat...
Page 5 - It is the plain duty of the physician to enlighten parents upon this point, and insist that the infant shall be kept quiet, and that all such playing and romping as has been referred to shall, during the first year at least, be absolutely prohibited.
Page 134 - Any specimen taken for examination should be either the middle portion of the milk — ie, after nursing two or three minutes — or, better, the entire quantity from one breast, since the composition of the milk will differ very much according to the time when it is drawn. The first milk is slightly richer in protein and much poorer in fat.
Page 120 - In quite a large number of cases it exceeded twenty ounces; the average loss among healthy infants being ten ounces. As a rule the infants began to gain in weight as soon as the temperature remained at the normal point but not until then. The symptoms presented by these infants were a hot and dry skin, marked restlessness, dry mouth, and a disposition to suck vigorously anything within reach— everything indicating great thirst. With a very high temperature there was considerable prostration and...
Page 133 - Although its results are only approximate, they are in most cases sufficiently accurate for clinical purposes. The tube is filled to the zero mark with freshly drawn milk, which stands at room-temperature for twenty-four hours, when the percentage of cream is read off. The ratio of this to the fat is approximately five to three; thus 5 per cent, cream indicates 3 per cent, fat, etc. "Sugar. — The proportion of sugar is so nearly constant that it may be ignored in clinical examinations.