A Practical Manual of the Diseases of Children: With a Formulary

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Wood, 1879 - 213 sider
 

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Side 164 - I give an ounce every two, three, or four hours, according to the severity of the case — that will be from twelve to thirty-six grains of quinine in the twenty -four hours according to the case.
Side 65 - In the first stage the infant becomes irritable, restless and feverish ; the face flushed, the surface hot, and the pulse frequent ; there is an undue sensitiveness of the nerves of feeling, and the little patient starts on being touched, or from any sudden noise ; there are sighing and moaning during sleep, and screaming; the bowels are flatulent and loose, and the evacuations are mucous and disordered.
Side 4 - A scruple of gelatine (or a piece two inches square of the flat cake in which it is sold) is soaked for a short time in cold water, and then boiled in half a pint of water, until it dissolves, about ten or fifteen minutes. To this is added, with constant stirring, and just at the termination of the boiling, the milk and arrowroot, the latter being previously mixed into a paste with a little cold water. After the addition of the milk and arrowroot, and just before the removal from the fire, the cream...
Side 4 - So unhygienic conditions, bad ventilation, scanty and improper food, insufficient clothings, are frequent factors in its production. Of these, perhaps, improper food occupies the most conspicuous place. Rickets is, unfortunately, a very common disease; in fact, Sir. W. Jenner says of it that it is " the most common, the most important, and in its effects the most fatal, of diseases which exclusively affect children.
Side 89 - I recognise a disease sporadic, and doubtfully if at all contagious (Sir Thomas Watson, in 1857, teaches distinctly that it is not contagious, and speaks of diphtheria " as this very formidable complaint of which I have not seen more than two or three examples "}, of a rather sthenic character at first, in which not the tonsils and pharynx, but the larynx and trachea, are the parts first attacked...
Side 110 - In all cases where the contained fluid can be suspected to be pus, an exploratory puncture must be made; if purulent, the fluid must be let out. " 5. In all cases where a pleuritic effusion, occupying as much as half of one...
Side 7 - ... baths may gradually be made cold.. Mercury, bleeding, blisters, and antimony, are never to be thought of for rickety children. Such children bear mercury in particular very badly. Of medicines I am sure there are none more valuable than cod-liver oil, combined with an equal portion of lime water, the dose of oil not being too large for the stomach thoroughly to digest, that the bowels be not needlessly irritated, and the compound syrup of the phosphate of iron in drachm doses thrice daily. If...
Side 6 - Red, the complementary color of green, is that which, owing to the blood, tinges the skin of the healthy human subject, just as the green color of leaves is the complement of the one they absorb. From this principle, so fully established by experiment, M.
Side 110 - In all cases of double pleurisy when the total fluid may be said to occupy a space equal to half the united dimensions of the two pleural cavities. " 3. In all cases where, the effusion being large, there have been...

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