The clinical study and treatment of sick children / by John Thomson.

  • Thomson, John, 1856-1926.
Date:
1921
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Credit: The clinical study and treatment of sick children / by John Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I ON GENERAL CLINICAL EXAMINATION, CLINICAL HISTORY, AND PHYSIOGNOMICAL DIAGNOSIS PAGE General Principles ........ i Example of Routine Examination. Clinical History ........ 4 Mother’s Complaints ; Family History ; Previous Health and Treatment; Present Illness. Physiognomical Diagnosis ....... 6 Pleuro-pneumonia ; Meningitis ; Acute Peritonitis ; Tetanus ; Hippocratic Facies ; Adenoids ; Asthma ; Acute Bright’s Disease ; Acute Diarrhoea and Vomiting ; Chronic Diarrhoea. CHAPTER II ON SOME FACTS OF GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT Growth in Weight ........ 14 Its Clinical Significance ; Emaciation ; Obesity ; Progressive Lipodystrophia. Growth in Length ........ 20 Its Clinical Significance; Dwarfing; Infantilism; Premature Sexual Development. Development of the Sensory Functions and their Testing for Clinical Purposes ....... 24 Sight (Errors of Refraction, Functional Micropsia, Blindness, Blind Children, Congenital Word-Blindness) ; Hearing (Hyperacusia, Deafness, Deaf Children, Congenital Word-Deafness); Taste and Smell; Sensibility to Touch, Temperature and Pain. Development of the Voluntary Motor Functions . . .31 Muscular Hypertonicity. Sleep •••••••••• 34 Its Duration and Characters in Health. Speech .......... 35 Its Development; Delayed Speech; Aphasia; Nasal Speech; Stuttering; Lisping ; Lalling and Idioglossia.