On the wasting diseases of infants and children, Tema 105Churchill, 1868 |
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... especially the intense excitability of the nervous system which is so striking a peculiarity of healthy infancy . In a robust child we constantly find the whole system suffering violently from sympathetic derange- ment set up by some ...
... especially the intense excitability of the nervous system which is so striking a peculiarity of healthy infancy . In a robust child we constantly find the whole system suffering violently from sympathetic derange- ment set up by some ...
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... especially when unwell , often show great repugnance to the bath , and become much terrified at the sight of the water . In these cases it is convenient to cover the bath with a blanket ; the child , being placed upon this , can be ...
... especially when unwell , often show great repugnance to the bath , and become much terrified at the sight of the water . In these cases it is convenient to cover the bath with a blanket ; the child , being placed upon this , can be ...
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... especially in children who are brought up by hand . Amongst the poorer classes they are commonly fed upon farinaceous food as soon as they are born . This , of course , they are totally unable to digest . As a consequence , they dwindle ...
... especially in children who are brought up by hand . Amongst the poorer classes they are commonly fed upon farinaceous food as soon as they are born . This , of course , they are totally unable to digest . As a consequence , they dwindle ...
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... especially the case . At that time they are apt to be feverish , and are often seized with fits of screaming which nothing will appease , and which sometimes continue until actual exhaustion compels them to desist . Even then , however ...
... especially the case . At that time they are apt to be feverish , and are often seized with fits of screaming which nothing will appease , and which sometimes continue until actual exhaustion compels them to desist . Even then , however ...
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... especially common in warm weather . The mucous membrane of the mouth becomes red ; then little concretions , transparent at first , afterwards pearly white , appear on the reddened surface , unite , and form patches varying in size ...
... especially common in warm weather . The mucous membrane of the mouth becomes red ; then little concretions , transparent at first , afterwards pearly white , appear on the reddened surface , unite , and form patches varying in size ...
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āā abdominal acid acute Æther alimentary canal appearance Aquæ attacks bath becomes belly body bones bowels breast bronchial cachexia castor oil cause cavity chest child chronic diarrhoea cod's liver oil cold colour condition constipation continued convulsions cough dentition derangement diagnosis diarrhoea diet digestive disease dose effect emaciation enlarged exceedingly excite flatulence fontanelle given glands grains grey healthy hydrocephalus increased infant inflammation intestine irritation Jenner laryngismus lesions lungs meal mesenteric mesenteric glands milk mixture mother mouth Mucilag mucous membrane mucus muscles nourishment nutrition occur organs pain papillæ phthisis pneumonia present pressure produce prognosis pulmonary phthisis purgative quantity respiration result rhonchus ribs rickets scrofulous scrofulous pneumonia secretion seen seldom Sir William Jenner skin Small 8vo softening sometimes spleen stomach stools suckled symptoms syphilis Syrupi take place temperature Tinct tion tissue tongue tonics 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,...