Infantile temperatures in health and disease / by William Squire.

  • Squire, William, 1825-1899.
Date:
1869
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Credit: Infantile temperatures in health and disease / by William Squire. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    months old, both of rapid growth, the one (Case 10) forward, the other (Case 11) backward with the teeth, each had the pulse 120, and respiration 40; one of these, a boy (Case 10) at a year and a quarter, when all but the last four molar teeth were through, has pulse 100, respiration 24; another boy (Case 12) of two and half years, backward with his teeth, has exactly the same, while a third, (Case 13), two years and eight months old, with all his teeth, but in a low state of nutrition, has a pulse of 120 and respiration of 30. Case 13 and Cases 8 and 11 had a somewhat low temperature; Cases 9 and 10 had high tempera¬ tures, which in the first was sometimes, and in the last fre¬ quently 99°: six months afterwards this child has measles, after which the temperature is low, and the pulse-respiration ratio again becomes 120 and 30 in the minute, and continues so for some weeks. High temperature and quick respiration are associated with rapid growth. Case 10, at fourteen months, was 33 inches in height; Case 12, up to two years old had the respiration generally 30 in the minute, he had then grown 2J inches in less than six months. In this child the respiration while 24 in the day was still 22 during sleep. Other children, two years old, with a respiration of 22 in the day have had it 18 in the night; it has been found as low as 15 at midnight in a boy of seven years old. The individual differences which in after life may become permanent are less confirmed in infancy if not altogether accidental, thus the infant (Case 5) with a pulse as low as 100 when three days old, had also at three weeks old a pulse of only 110 and a respiration of 30, yet at three months, the temperature being both times 99° interiorly, the pulse is 130 and the respiration 40, the difference being from some addition made to the food, which was not over abundant while the child was suckled exclusively; the infant (Case 4) with a superabundance of breast-milk had a pulse of 140 and respiration of 50, the temperature containing from 98°6 to 99°. Only in some of the cases when a frequency of the pulse and respiration has continued through the second year has the infantile rate been also quick. In other cases this