The students guide to diseases of children / by James Frederic Goodhart.

  • Goodhart, James Frederic, Sir, 1845-1916.
Date:
1885
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Credit: The students guide to diseases of children / by James Frederic Goodhart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE DISEASES OF CHILDREN IHTKODUCTIOH. ' ’ What is a child, and how the diseases of children differ from the diseases of adult life, are questions which must have confronted all who have written upon the ailments of childhood, and not a little puzzled them for an answer. By the pathologist, indeed, it may well be doubted if any vahd reason can be given for separating diseases of children from others, for there are but few morbid changes found in childhood that are not to be seen at one time or another in the bodies of adults. If we run over the various regions of the body, the brain, heart, lungs, lymphatic glands and so on, few, and those but minor, differences can be pointed out between the products of disease in the child and of the same disease in an adult. Some diseases are more common at one time of life than at the other ; but should they overstep the limit of age usual to them, they appear in their old form, or with but slight modifications, such as would certainly not justify any one in devoting a “ manual ” to their de- scription. The bones form the most nptable exception to this rule; in rickets, acute ostitis, and some forms of enchondroma we have examples of constancy of pecu- B