On the wasting diseases of infants and children, Tema 105Churchill, 1868 |
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... continued impairment of nutrition , the most serious diseases may give no signs of their presence . Pneumonia may exist with little fever and no cough , and a serious intestinal lesion without pain and with only trifling diarrhoea . * A ...
... continued impairment of nutrition , the most serious diseases may give no signs of their presence . Pneumonia may exist with little fever and no cough , and a serious intestinal lesion without pain and with only trifling diarrhoea . * A ...
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... continued too long , reaction subsides , and there is a sense of chilliness and languor , with loss of appetite , which may last for several hours . The shock is great in proportion to the coldness of the water , and the degree of ...
... continued too long , reaction subsides , and there is a sense of chilliness and languor , with loss of appetite , which may last for several hours . The shock is great in proportion to the coldness of the water , and the degree of ...
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... continued far too long . Human milk is the best food for infants , not on account of any specific property it possesses , but merely because it is the most digestible . When , however , it is so poor as to be no longer nutritious , it ...
... continued far too long . Human milk is the best food for infants , not on account of any specific property it possesses , but merely because it is the most digestible . When , however , it is so poor as to be no longer nutritious , it ...
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... continued passage along the bowels of masses of indigestible food must cause constantly renewed irritation to his delicate mucous mem- brane , and , if the same diet be persisted in , must lead in time to diarrhoea . When due to this ...
... continued passage along the bowels of masses of indigestible food must cause constantly renewed irritation to his delicate mucous mem- brane , and , if the same diet be persisted in , must lead in time to diarrhoea . When due to this ...
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... continued with advantage . When tenderness is present they should only be used to the legs and feet . In cases of great emaciation , when the purging becomes arrested , frictions with cod's liver oil may be employed ; a teaspoon- ful ...
... continued with advantage . When tenderness is present they should only be used to the legs and feet . In cases of great emaciation , when the purging becomes arrested , frictions with cod's liver oil may be employed ; a teaspoon- ful ...
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āā abdominal acid acute Æther alimentary canal appearance Aquæ Ascaris lumbricoides attacks bath becomes belly body bones bowels breast bronchial cachexia cause cavity chest child chronic diarrhoea cod's liver oil cold colour common condition constipation continued convulsions cough dentition derangement diagnosis diarrhoea diet digestive disease dose emaciation enlarged exceedingly excite extreme flatulence fontanelle frequently give rise given glands grains grey healthy hydrocephalus increased infant inflammation intestine irritation Jenner lesions lungs meal mesenteric mesenteric glands milk mixture mother mouth Mucilag mucous membrane mucus muscles nourishment nutrition occur organs pain papillæ phthisis pneumonia presence pressure produce prognosis pulmonary phthisis purgative quantity respiration result rhonchus ribs rickets scrofulous scrofulous pneumonia secretion seen seldom side Sir William Jenner skin softening sometimes spleen stomach stools suckled symptoms syphilis Syrupi Tænia take place Tinct tion tissue tongue treatment tubercle tubercular tuberculosis ulceration usually vomiting warm worms yellow
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Página 131 - On examining the surface of the skin with a low magnifying power, especially on the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet, the...
Página 78 - ... exposed to debilitating causes. The physician finds the child lying on its nurse's lap, unable or unwilling to raise its head, half asleep, one moment opening its eyes, and the next closing them again with a remarkable expression of languor. The tongue is slightly white, the skin is not hot, at times the nurse remarks that it is colder than natural ; in some cases there is at times a slight and transient flush : the bowels I have always seen already disturbed by purgatives, so that I can scarcely...
Página 138 - The majority of cases of great enlargement die. The degree of the splenic enlargement may be taken as an index of the severity of the cachexia, with...
Página 86 - ... children's diseases, is one of the most common. It begins insidiously, presenting at first merely the ordinary symptoms of defective assimilation, and attention is often not attracted to it until the characteristic changes occur in the bones which place -the existence of the disease beyond a doubt. It is the result of malnutrition; any disease, therefore, which seriously interferes with the assimilative power, and causes sufficient impairment of the general strength, may be followed directly...
Página 237 - ... dilatation of the bronchi, and is sometimes also characteristic of catarrhal pneumonia. If in the intervals of the fits of coughing there is anything approaching to an asthmatic seizure or the slightest percussion — dulness at the top of the sternum, little doubt can remain as to the nature of the disease. Alteration in the quality of the voice often accompanies the characteristic cough. If there is doubt in any case, the occurrence of signs of venous pressure at once changes our suspicions...
Página 88 - The most constant and striking anatomical lesions in rickets are, — 1. Enlargement of the ends of the long bones, — of the parts where the bone and cartilage are in contact, ie where the cartilage is preparing for ossification, and where ossification is advancing in the cartilage. 2. Softening of all the bones. 3. Thickening of the flat bones, eg the bones of the skull —the scapula. 4. Deformities which follow from mechanical causes acting on the softened bones, eg the deformities of the thorax,...