Surgical diseases of infants and children / by P. Guersant ; translated from the French by Richard J. Dunglison.

  • Guersant, P. (Paul Louis Benoit), 1800-1869.
Date:
1873
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    being otherwise equal, children who are operated upon in the city, with parents in comfortable circumstances, and who occupy cham- bers well aired and well warmed, according to the indications, are in better condition for recovery than those on whom we operate in hospitals, where numerous patients are brought together in the same ward, the atmosphere of which is more or less vitiated, what- ever may be done to avert it. It is always possible in town, when the accommodations will admit of it, to make a change for the patient from one room to another. This will give an excellent opportunity to renew the air alternately in the room which he has just quitted, and which he will re-enter when thus purified and warmed, or not, according to the season. * CHAPTER II. CERVICAL ADENITIS. Adenitis of the neck in children is met with so frequently in practice, and so often leaves frightful traces of its invasion, that I deem it expedient to speak of this affection, which is, unhappily, too often seen either neglected or badly treated. Enlargements of the lymphatic glands of the neck, whether in front, at the sides, or on the posterior portion, are sometimes symptomatic of wounds or blows on the scalp or on the face. They are very often the conse- quence of various affections of the skin of the head or of the face. Occasionally, we can only trace the cause to some disease of the mouth, lips, teeth, or throat. Finally, they may be symptomatic of a more or less lymphatic constitution. Whatever the causative condition may be, whether general or local, the indication always is at first to attack the cause. If it be a small wound of the head or of the face, we must attend to the wound; if an eczema of the scalp, we must subject it to the proper treat- ment; if a diseased tooth, and in such a case the glandular enlarge- ment will be seated in the neighbourhood of the upper or lower jaw, the tooth should be extracted. If the cause be a general one, such as a lymphatic constitution, the indication is to prescribe the ap- propriate remedies. In every case, we must at the same time act