Transactions of the American Pediatric Society, Volume 12American Pediatric Society., 1900 List of members in each volume. |
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Page 87 - ... kinds will be modified or cured. 8. Nasal and supposed pulmonary hemorrhages will disappear. 9. Thoracic deformities will be relieved or cured. 10. The tendency to acute rhinitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis, bronchitis, and pneumonia becomes less and less with the restoration of normal respiration. 11. The dangers attending the presence of enlarged cervical lymph nodes will be avoided. 12. The invasion of various infectious diseases is less likely when the nasal mucous membrane is in a healthy state....
Page 114 - RESULTS: 1. Delirium, headache, insomnia, nausea, vomiting and tympanitis usually disappeared within forty-eight hours of treatment. 2. Tympanitis, nausea and vomiting never developed in any patient, even when complicating pneumonia was present. 3. The fur on the tongue disappeared within a few days. 4. Appetite came frequently on the fourth dav of treatment, even when the thermometer registered 102 to 103 degrees F.
Page 87 - The removal of the lymphoid hypertrophies in the nasoand oropharynx, with the cure of the associated nasopharyngeal catarrh, will restore the patency and permeability of the nose. If done early, many local pathological changes may be avoided. 2. The general health will be more or less improved. 3. The mental faculties and general intelligence will be improved. 4. Defects in speech and in hearing due to nasal troubles will disappear. 5.
Page 87 - Reflex neurosis of various kinds will be modified or cured. 8. Nasal and supposed pulmonary hemorrhages will disappear. 9. Thoracic deformities will be relieved or cured. 10. The tendency to acute rhinitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis, bronchitis and pneumonia becomes less and less with the restoration of normal respiration. 11. The dangers attending the presence of enlarged cervical lymph nodes will be avoided. 12. The invasion of various infectious diseases is less likely when the nasal mucous membrane...
Page 80 - He thinks that the pneumococcus and meningococcus are the chief producers of cerebrospinal meningitis, and that other micro-organisms, especially the pyogenic cocci, play the causative part in only a few cases. In circumscribed meningitis the pneumococcus has up to the present alone been found. A general infection by way of the blood must be distinguished from a local infection arising from some region in the neighborhood of the skull. One of the most frequent modes of infection is that the micro-organisms...
Page 113 - October of 1889, and sincethen none of my typhoid have been given milk until the rectal temperature has been normal for at least two days. It was found that at the beginning of the attack that plain, cold water sufficed during the first twenty-four to forty-eight hours after the initial purge, although, of course, much depended upon the gastric condition of the patient. Then soups made of...
Page 142 - The cause of persistent stenosis following intubation in laryngeal diphtheria can be summed up in the single word, traumatism.
Page 18 - Finally, the indication is early operation, which is no doubt of very great benefit to the patient when the tuberculous process is limited to the peritoneum. As regards the establishment of a complete cure, I am somewhat...
Page 117 - The other members of the family consisted of a brother aged five years, nine months, since dead from same cause, an infant at the breast, perfectly well, apparently untouched by the lead. The manner of absorption being, that for a week previous to the first child being affected, the meals had been cooked with fire wood procured from staves of old barrels wHich had contained white lead, so the fumes of lead not only entered into the food, but permeated the atmosphere. PREVIOUS HISTORY. — The child...
Page 17 - The writer is unwilling to make a routine test with tuberculin in human beings in the present unsatisfactory state of our knowledge of its action. To the three varieties of tuberculous peritonitis hitherto formulated by various observers : 1. Chronic tuberculous ascites (miliary form); 2. Fibro-caseous tuberculous peritonitis: 3. Fibro-adhesive tuberculous peritonitis ; must be classed a fourth variety, 4. Tuberculous peritoneal tumors. Two such tumor cases have been seen by the author.