Pediatrics ; Orthopedic SurgeryYear Book Publishers, 1919 |
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Page 77 - It shows further that children from one to five years of age are most susceptible to the disease and show by far the greatest mortality. In one table 81.5 per cent, of deaths, in another table 77.5 per cent., are shown to have occurred under five years of age. As is well known, the dangerous laryngeal forms and the complicating bronchopneumonias are seen especially in this group of younger children.
Page 65 - Pneumonia is not a local, but a general disease ; and the brunt of it may fall upon any part — lungs, membranes of the brain, intestines, kidneys." Herrick recognized the pre-meningitic stage in 45 per cent, of 265 cases, and states that with special technique positive blood cultures can be obtained in 50 to 80 per cent, of cases examined at an early stage. Baeslack...
Page 97 - ... 30 per cent of the pregnancies terminate in death at or before term, (a waste three times greater than is found in nonsyphilitic families...
Page 81 - The active immunization against diphtheria should be carried out first of all by the private physicians in the different homes, where a majority of the infants can be reached. In larger centers of population the milk stations, day nurseries, children's dispensaries, infant and orphan asylums furnish large groups of children suitable for immunization. The children of preschool age found in kindergartens and those of school age should be tested first with the Schick reaction, and those giving a positive...
Page 84 - ... noted in the temperature, blood leukocytes, and inoculated organs. The rise of temperature and the leukocytosis precede the glandular swelling, but all the changes reach the maximum at about the same time, after which they decline, and normal conditions are reestablished in about four weeks. The intraparotid and intratesticular injections of extracts of normal parotid gland and testicles may cause a mild rise of temperature and leukocytosis of brief duration, but swelling and tenderness are absent....
Page 15 - ... fat, averaging 57.8 per cent. of the total fat, as determined on the dried stool. The average stool of the normal breast fed infants showed a soap fat of 43.1 per cent. of the total fat, as determined on the dried stool, which would correspond to over one-third of the total fat of the fresh stool. 3. The neutral fat in the best stools averaged 15.9 per cent. of the total fat ; in the average stool the neutral fat was 20.2 per cent. of the total fat. The amount of neutral fat is not affected by...
Page 1 - Volume V. Pediatrics edited by Isaac A. Abt, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Medical School, attending physician Michael Reese Hospital. Orthopedic Surgery edited by John Ridlon, AM, MD, Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Rush Medical College, with the collaboration of Charles A. Parker, MD Series 1913.
Page 11 - A diet containing in abundance those articles with which the fat-soluble A accessory food factor is associated — eg, cod-liver oil, butter, etc. — allows the development in puppies of sound teeth. A diet otherwise adequate but deficient in the substances with which fat-soluble A is associated brings about the folowing defects in puppies...
Page 11 - A is associated brings about the following defects in puppies' teeth : (a) delayed loss of deciduous teeth ; (6) delayed eruption of the permanent dentition ; in some cases the delay in the eruption of the permanent teeth is more marked than the delay in the loss of the deciduous teeth ; (c) irregularity in position and overlapping, especially of the incisors ; (d) partial absence of or very defective enamel ; (e) low calcium content — the deficiency in calcium salts may result in tbe teeth being...
Page 85 - The virus was also detected in the blood of patients showing marked constitutional symptoms. The serum of recovered cats was found to contain an immune body which diminished or even neutralized...