The diseases of infancy and childhood : for the use of students and practitioners of medicine / by L. Emmett Holt.

  • Luther Emmett Holt
Date:
1900
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    childreu are limited to the bedside. These illustrations have been se- lected with reference to their bearing on the symptomatology of disease and for the benefit of the practitioner, not the pathologist. In this as in all parts of the book 1 have tried to keep constantly in mind the every-day needs of the physician who practises among children and of the student who expects to do so. The material has been gathered from eleven years’ continuous hospital service among young children, and much of the statistical matter which has been introduced, relates to cases which have been under my own ob- servation. While as a whole the book is very largely a record of personal experi- ence, I must express my great indebtedness to the rapidly increasing num- ber of active workers in paediatrics both in America and in Europe. The arrangement of the book differs somewhat from that of other works on the subject. The space given to nutrition, to its derangements, and to the diseases resulting therefrom, is, I think, not out of propor- tion to their importance. There can be little question regarding the propriety of placing rickets and scurvy in this class. It is hoped that the plan of grouping in a single chapter the various therapeutic measures use- ful in early life may aid the reader who wishes to consult the book on these points. In the parts relating to treatment, great, but I think not undue, stress has been laid upon diet and hygienic measures, since in them rather than in drug-giving lies the secret of success, certainly in all disorders of digestion and nutrition. The illustrations are for the greatsr part original, being either from photographs or drawings of my own cases. Most of the drawings are by Dr. Henry Macdonald. For all borrowed illustrations credit has been given. For some of the latter I wish to thank Messrs. William Wood & Co. and the J. B. Lippincott Company, who have allowed the use of cuts from their publications. I wish to express my obligations to Prof. James W. McLane, who kindly placed at my disposal the valuable records of the Sloane Maternity Hospital, from which the statistics relating to the newly-born child have been largely drawn. I am also deeply indebted to Drs. Charles G. Kerley and Martha Woll- stein for the tabulation of cases from hospital records and for other valu- able assistance; to Dr. Thomas S. Southworth for suggestions in the chapter on Diseases of the Blood and for the preparation of the index; to my brother. Dr. N. Curtice Holt, for the revision of the proof sheets of the entire book; and, finally, to my publishers for their uniform courtesy and hearty co-operation at every stage of the work. L. Emmett Holt. 15 East PiFTY-fOURTU Street, New York, November 25, 1896.