Clinical lectures and essays on rickets : tuberculosis, abdominal tumours and other subjects / by Sir William Jenner, bart.

  • Jenner, William, Sir, 1815-1898.
Date:
1985
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Credit: Clinical lectures and essays on rickets : tuberculosis, abdominal tumours and other subjects / by Sir William Jenner, bart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    PAfiE Growth—Late Dentition—White Patches on the Heart- Evidence afforded by Ricketj' Subjects of the Truth of the Attrition Theory—Puhnonary Vesicular Emphysema and Collapse of the lung both due in Rickets to a Common Cause, and not related to each other as Cause and Effect—Mechanism of their Production—Most Common Cause of Emaciation in Rickets, Albuminoid InfiltrationofLymphatic Glands, Spleen, etc.—Anatomical Characters of the Lymphatic Glands and Spleen when the Seat of Albuminoid Infiltration. U'dvrcin. . . 34 Anatomical (Characters of Albuminoid Infiltration of Spleen, Lymphatic Glands, Liver, Kidney, Thymus, and Brain—State of the Voluntary Muscles—,Sym2}toms— Age—Constitutional Symptoms which precede the Bone Disease—Derangement of Digestion—Perspiration of Head—Desire to be cool at Night—General Tenderness —Commencement, Abrupt or Gradual—Softening of the Bones most marked when the Constitutional Disturbance is Severe and the Child very Young—Symptoms con- sec(uent on the Softening of the Bones—Loss of Muscular Power—Large Abdomen of the Rickety Child, and its Causes—Intellect deficient in Power and Capacity— Teeth — Skin — Fontanelle — General Aspect — Chief Causes of Death in Rickets—Influence of Softening of the Ribs on the Fatal Termination of Bronchitis— Symptoms of Albuminoid Infiltration of Lymphatic Glands, Spleen, etc.—Laryngismus Stridulus—Pathology of Rickets—Not mere want of Lime in the Bones— Causes—Special Influence of Mother—Hygienic Con- ditions—Treatment. II. Cases Illustrating the Symptoms and Pathological arpearances of albuminoid infiltration of the Spleen, Lymphatic Glands, etc., in Children . 5^ III. On Tuberculosis, and the Evidences of the Deposit or Formation of Tubercle in the Child : Two Lectures delivered at the Hospital for Sick Children. Lecture I. , . . . .69 Lecture II. . g4 IV. On the Differential Diagnosis of Acute Laryngitis and the Feigned Laryngitis of Hysterical Women . 103 [Abstract from a Clmicol Lecture.]