A Practical treatise on the diseases of infancy and childhoodLindsay & Blakiston, 1871 - 559 pages |
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... increasing , owing to the excessive mortality at all times going on in infancy ; " eight out of every ten children , " he says , " die between the eighth and twelfth day of their existence . ' The principal cause of this terrible ...
... increasing , owing to the excessive mortality at all times going on in infancy ; " eight out of every ten children , " he says , " die between the eighth and twelfth day of their existence . ' The principal cause of this terrible ...
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... increased experience and practical skill , we now have greater confidence in the legitimate use of the remedies with which Nature has so bountifully supplied us . Hence , although our first exertions are to be directed towards the ...
... increased experience and practical skill , we now have greater confidence in the legitimate use of the remedies with which Nature has so bountifully supplied us . Hence , although our first exertions are to be directed towards the ...
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... increased in the 13 fathers forty or fifty years older than mothers above twenty - five , whence the proportion is 91.6 male to 100 female births . If the preponderance of age in male parents is favourable to a larger proportion of male ...
... increased in the 13 fathers forty or fifty years older than mothers above twenty - five , whence the proportion is 91.6 male to 100 female births . If the preponderance of age in male parents is favourable to a larger proportion of male ...
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... increases pretty regularly - about two inches annually - until the age of sixteen . 4. After puberty the stature increases slightly - about one inch a year — until the age of twenty - five , when it seems to be completed . The an- nual ...
... increases pretty regularly - about two inches annually - until the age of sixteen . 4. After puberty the stature increases slightly - about one inch a year — until the age of twenty - five , when it seems to be completed . The an- nual ...
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... increases in size as the infant begins to articulate at from six to twelve months old : most children speak plainly when from two to three years of age . The genital organs are small , except the clitoris and nymphæ of the female ...
... increases in size as the infant begins to articulate at from six to twelve months old : most children speak plainly when from two to three years of age . The genital organs are small , except the clitoris and nymphæ of the female ...
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abdomen acid acute adult affected ammonia appearance applied Aquæ attack auscultation bath becomes blood body bowels brain breathing bronchial bronchitis calomel catarrh cause cerebral chest child childhood chronic cicatrix cold colour condition congestion constipation convulsions cornea cough croup cure death diagnosis diarrhoea diet disease doses drachm dyspnoea eczema effusion emetic eruption especially expectoration fatal febrile fever fluid frequently give rise glands glottis hydrocephalus infant inflammation inflammatory intestinal iodide iodine ipecacuanha irritation laryngismus larynx latter liver lung malformation measles medicines meningitis mercury milk morbid mucous membrane muscles nervous occasionally occurs organs ounce pain patient peculiar pleurisy pneumonia produced pulmonary pulse purgatives quinine rarely regard remedies respiration result scarlatina scrofulous severe skin sometimes spinal Spiritûs stimulating stomach strumous surface symptoms syphilis Syrupi teaspoonful Tincturæ tion tissue tonics trachea treatment tubercular tumour ulceration urine usually vomiting warm
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