Lectures on the diseases of infancy and childhood / by Charles West.

  • West, Charles, 1816-1898.
Date:
1850
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    occasional unexpected recovery ..... case of recovery, attended with expectoration of tubercular matter its fatal termination usually preceded by merging of its symptoms in those of general pulmonary phthisis .... occasional fatal haemoptysis, but this accident not limited to cases of bron chial phthisis ...... Phthisis in very early infancy ..... pulmonary symptoms often obscured by signs of generally defective nu trition ....... PACK 282 282 283 283 283 283 LECTURE XXV. Phthisis continued ...... Peculiarities of its auscultatory signs in early life some of less value than in the adult influence of tuberculous bronchial glands in exaggerating the signs of disease of the lung .... difficulty in appreciating some signs, which are well marked in the adult sign peculiar to early life ..... Different forms of phthisis ..... Acute phthisis . . . illustrative case ..... Tuberculous pneumonia ..... bronchitis grafted on phthisis may lead to an overestimate of the tuberculous disease Duration of phthisis ..... its course sometimes extremely chronic . cases in illustration ..... Modes of death in phthisis ..... head symptoms sometimes precede death, independent of cerebral disease Prophylaxis and treatment of phthisis ..... LECTURE XXVI. Diseases of the Heart ........ much rarer in childhood than in the adult . . . . rheumatic inflammation their most frequent cause heart sometimes affected when rheumatic symptoms are very slight both endocarditis and pericarditis may come on independently of rheu- matism ...... as sequelae of scarlatina .... as complications of pleurisy or as purely idiopathic affections illustrative cases .... Idiopathic endocarditis sometimes attended by very few symptoms importance of its early detection tendency of valvular disease to grow worse and worse . power of the growing heart to ward off the effects of disease absence of anaemic bruits in early life . . . Congenital affections of the heart .... reasons for not studying them here in detail cases illustrative of some of their symptoms LECTURE XXVII. Diskases of the Organs of Digestion and Assimilation Peculiarities of the digestive organs in infancy .... (hey require a peculiar kind of food, the milk .... composition of that fluid, its adaptation for the nutriment of the infant changes in the digestive organs as the child grows older those changes take place more slowly in the human subject than in animals ....... Evils of giving other food than the mothers milk until the infant is old enough to bear it ....... . shown by the increased mortality it produces .... 284 284 284 285 286 286 287 2S7 288 289 289 291 291 291 294 294 295 297 298 298 299 299 299 299 299 299 302 303 304 305 307 307 307 308 310 310 312 312 316 316 316 316