On the wasting diseases of infants and children, Tema 105Churchill, 1868 |
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... month after birth , seems to indi- cate that before that age farinaceous articles of diet are unsuited to the infant , as saliva is one of the most potent agents in the digestion of starchy foods . Besides , for perfect nutrition four ...
... month after birth , seems to indi- cate that before that age farinaceous articles of diet are unsuited to the infant , as saliva is one of the most potent agents in the digestion of starchy foods . Besides , for perfect nutrition four ...
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... months old , these attacks are often accompanied by aphthæ of the mouth . They are found on the tip of the tongue , round the anterior part of its margin , and on the inside of the lower lip . They consist of small circular superficial ...
... months old , these attacks are often accompanied by aphthæ of the mouth . They are found on the tip of the tongue , round the anterior part of its margin , and on the inside of the lower lip . They consist of small circular superficial ...
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... months . If he has been suckled for some months before the commencement of the improper food , he has greater power of resistance ; and although under the new diet he will soon become dull , and pale , and flabby , yet the effects upon ...
... months . If he has been suckled for some months before the commencement of the improper food , he has greater power of resistance ; and although under the new diet he will soon become dull , and pale , and flabby , yet the effects upon ...
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... month , during which time a fitting nurse can be secured , if a wet - nurse is really required . The child should take the breast at regular intervals , every two hours during the day for the first six weeks , and he * Trousseau ...
... month , during which time a fitting nurse can be secured , if a wet - nurse is really required . The child should take the breast at regular intervals , every two hours during the day for the first six weeks , and he * Trousseau ...
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... months the breast must remain the child's sole nourishment , provided that the secretion of milk , and its quality , are found to be satisfactory . If not , and the child wastes , or does not grow , other food must be given in addition ...
... months the breast must remain the child's sole nourishment , provided that the secretion of milk , and its quality , are found to be satisfactory . If not , and the child wastes , or does not grow , other food must be given in addition ...
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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,...