The diseases of children : a short introduction to their study / by James Frederic Goodhart.

  • Goodhart, James Frederic, 1845-1916.
Date:
1891
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Credit: The diseases of children : a short introduction to their study / by James Frederic Goodhart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    THE . 91 . •* DISEASES OF CIiELDEE¥. INTRODUCTION. What is u cliild, and how tlio diseases of cliildi-eii ^lif^el• fioni tlie diseases of adult life, are (piestions wliicdi must have coiifioiited all who have written upon tlie ailments of childhood, and not a little puzzled them for an answer. ISy the pathologist, indeed, it may well be doubted if any valid reason can be given for se])arating diseases of children from those ■occurring at other epochs, for thex'O are but few morbi<l changes found in childhood that are not to be seen at one time or anothci’ in the bodies of adults. If we run over the various regions of the body, the brain, heart, lungs, lymphatic glands, and so on, few, and those but minor, dilierences can be pointed out between the products of di.seasxi in the child and of tlie .same in an adult. .Some diseases are more com- mon at one time of life than at the other; but should the y overstej) the limit of age usual to (hem, they ap[iear in theii' old form, or with but slight modiliea- tions, such as would ceitainly not justify any one in xlevoting even a “ manual ” to theii' de.sci iption. Tlie bones form the most notable exception to this I'ule: in rickets, in .some forms of ostitis and of en- choudronia, wo have examples of constancy ol’ pcciili- A