The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, Volume 51W.A. Townsend & Adams, 1905 - Children |
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Page 150 - The exact nature of the disturbance of nitrogenous metabolism which is responsible for the clinical manifestations of the toxemia of pregnancy is a failure of oxidizing capacity on the part of the liver. For this reason, the proteid derivatives, principally amidoacids and ammonia, which are normally combined by the liver into urea, are no longer combined but circulate free in the blood in poisonous form, and are to some extent 'excreted by the kidneys.
Page 551 - ... scourge in an institution. (3) The highly contagious character of gonococcus vaginitis makes it imperative that children suffering from it should not remain in the same wards or dormitories with other children. A similar danger, though less in degree, exists with the gonococcus ophthalmia and acute gonococcus arthritis or pyemia.