A Treatise on the diseases of infancy and childhoodLea Bros., 1890 - 868 pages |
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acid adult affected albuminuria anatomical appearance attack bacillus blood bones brain bromide bronchial bronchitis catarrh cause cavity cells cerebral cerebro-spinal fever child chorea commencement common complication congestion convulsions cord cough croup cyanosis death diagnosis digestive diphtheria disease doses dyspnoea eclampsia effusion employed epidemic eruption erysipelas examination extravasation exudation fatal fauces favorable feeble fibrin frequently glands hemorrhage hydrocephalus increase infant inflammation inflammatory instances intestinal irritating laryngitis lesions less liquid lungs malady measles membrane meningitis mild milk months mucous muscles normal nursing observed occasionally occur ordinarily organs pain paralysis patient pertussis physician pia mater pleurisy pneumonia present probably produced pseudo-membrane pulse rachitis rare remedies respiration result rheumatism scarlatinous scarlet fever scrofulous severe sometimes spinal stage surface symptoms syphilis temperature tetanus theria tion tissue treatment tubercles tubercular tuberculosis tubes typhoid fever ulceration umbilical umbilicus urine usually vaccination vessels vomiting weeks wet-nurse
Popular passages
Page 114 - and interventricular septa, and the consequent flow of blood from the right to the left side of the heart, have considered it an important part of the treatment to keep the patient reclining on the right side, so as to diminish this flow by the effect of gravitation. The reader, however,
Page 124 - If the conjunctivitis be purulent, but mild, and attended by a slight discharge and little or no appreciable swelling of the conjunctiva, two drops of a 2 per cent, solution of nitrate of silver should be instilled once between the lids, and the lids moved to ensure its flowing underneath them
Page 259 - mercurial ointment, made in the proportion of a drachm to an ounce, over a flannel roller, and bound it round the child once a day. The child kicks about, and, the cuticle being thin, the mercury is absorbed. It does not either gripe or purge, nor does it make the
Page 355 - within two weeks. 2 At the close of the seventeenth century and in the first half of the eighteenth century epidemics of diphtheria occurred in various parts of New England. At Kingston, New Hampshire, in March, 1735, a child died of three days
Page 309 - for cleansing the nostrils and mouth, which should be immediately thereafter burned. " The ceilings and side-walls of a sick-room after removal of the patient should be thoroughly cleaned and lime-washed, and the woodwork and floor thoroughly scrubbed with soap and water." • By such measures of prevention there can be no doubt that the number
Page 309 - by placing them in a tub with the following disinfecting fluid: eight ounces of sulphate of zinc, one ounce of carbolic acid, three gallons of water. They should be soaked in this fluid for at least an hour, and then placed in boiling water for washing. ' A piece of muslin one foot square should be dipped in the same solution
Page 278 - admit that one physician met with 17 cases of puerperal septicaemia in which. by a mere coincidence, the contagion of scarlet fever had been traced, and that the disease nevertheless originated from some other source—an hypothesis so improbable that its mere mention carries its own refutation.
Page 47 - same way as in a fat-cell of the adipose tissue, and to be discharged into the channels of the gland either by a breaking up of the cells or by a contractile extrusion very similar to that which takes place when an amoeba ejects its digested food.
Page 35 - 'Impressions will sometimes reach the foetus in its recess, cut off its legs or arms, or inflict large flesh wounds before birth, .... from which we surmise that idiocy holds unknown though certain relations to maternal impressions as modifications to placenta! nutrition.
Page 35 - There is now little room for doubt that various deformities and deficiencies of the fœtus, conformably to the popular belief, do really originate in certain cases from nervous impressions, such as disgust, fear, or anger, experienced by the mother." The observations on which this belief is based relate both to man and the lower animals. A very strong argument in its support is, as