Lectures on the diseases of infancy and childhood.

  • West, Charles, 1816-1898.
Date:
1848
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Credit: Lectures on the diseases of infancy and childhood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Gangrenous stomatitis ..... extremely rare, but very fatal essential differences between it and the other forms of stomatitis Symptoms, local and general .... state of the gangrenous parts on dissection Treatment ..... importance of efficient cauterization . what caustics are to be used, and how they are to be applied The disease does not depend on the administration of mercury. . Cynanche Parotidea ..... most common near period of puberty Symptoms ...... metastasis of inflammation rare Treatment . . . . LECTURE XXX. Diseases of the Stomach ...... Vomiting often symptomatic of disease elsewhere occasionally occurs suddenly in a previously healthy infant without signs of general illness . . . . Treatment ...... is often one out of many symptoms of indigestion Infantile dyspepsia ...... sometimes connected with general debility of the system; at others, dependent on special disorder of the stomach Symptoms and treatment . , . . . Softening of the Stomach ...... discovered after death in various degrees . . . . different theories as to its nature . great frequency in early infancy . . . . . Dr. Elsasser’s explanation of this fact . . . . probably not correct to the full extent. HjEMATEMESIS ....... very rare ....... sometimes connected with injury to the child during labour its occurrence often difficult of explanation illustrative cases ..... Spurious hsematemesis .... . . LECTURE XXXI. ICTEBUS OF NEW-BOBN CHILDREN ..... generally a trivial affection ..... not usually dependent on intestinal disorder, but on imperfect performance of function of skin and respiratory organs sometimes results from absence or closure of hepatic or cystic ducts . is then associated with great tendency to luemorrhage, and proves speedily fatal it occasionally occurs in children under the same circumstances as in the adult . PAGE 855 355 356 356 357 358 359 359 360 360 360 361 361 361 363 363 363 364 365 365 365 365 369 370 370 371 371 371 372 372 372 372 372 374 375 375 376 376 377 377