Congenital affections of the heart / by George Carpenter.

  • Carpenter, George, 1859-1910.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Congenital affections of the heart / by George Carpenter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    erythema nodosum. Tonsillitis is seldom seen, in my experience, in such young children, and the erythemata only occasionally. It appears, then, that rheumatism does occur in infants and children under 4 years of age and clinically is met with occasionally, but it is often difficult to diagnose and may easily be passed over, making it appear rarer than is really the case. Acquired heart disease can and does occur in infants and children under that age, though here again this is rare. Taking the records of the Evelina Hospital of 768 deaths, there was one case of mitral disease aged 3 years, and another aged 3 years of mitral disease and pericarditis, and another aged 5 months with mitral disease. Here again statistics, perhaps, do not show all they are intended, because at the Evelina Hospital cases are not admitted, as a rule, under 2 years of age. Although this is so, a large number of infants are admitted into the wards during the course of the year, but, perhaps, not quite so many as would otherwise be the case if this rule were not in operation. Cases XI. and XVIII. in my list are possibly of that nature, but the history of the