Diseases of infancy and childhood

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Temperature (top line), pulse (middle line) and respiration (bottom line) of 3 year old boy with the measles.
Identifier: diseasesofinfan00fisc (find matches)
Title: Diseases of infancy and childhood
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Fischer, Louis, 1864- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Children
Publisher: Philadelphia, F. A. Davis company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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)lack color. Frequently the wholebody shows a tendency to bleed. Thus the mucous surfaces are implicated,giving rise to epistaxis, bleeding from the gums, dysentery stools andhaemorrhages from the genito-urinary tract. Where a tendency to haimor-rhage exists, as in haemophilic subjects (bleeders), they are especially predis-posed to the hsemorrhagic form.
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Fig. 1!)1.—^A Case of Malignant Measles, complicated by Diphtheria andending with Empyema.. Male child, 3 years old. Septic from beginning.Fatal termination. Seen in my service at Kiverside Hospital, Xew YorkCity. (Original.) Complications.—PiiJnionari/: There seems to be a predis)>osition topulmonary disease, eomnuMicing wiih a bronchial catarrh, es)iecially in thosechildren witli feeble resisting ))ower. Tlie intlammatory condition extendsinto tlie snialhM ramifications of (lie bronclual tubes, causing capillarybronchitis. AVhen lliis occurs it sliouUl be viewed witli alarm. The childshows dys))ncva and adynamic symptoms, owing io ditVicult oxygenation. 592 THE INFECTIOUS DISEASES. The Larynx.—One of the most frequent and fatal complications metwith in children is laryngitis. This may be:— (a) Spasmodic. (b) Phlegmonous. (c) Membranous. The last named complication is the one most frequently met with, espe-cially in institutions. It is most common during the eruptive stage

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