The diseases of infancy and childhood : for the use of students and practitioners of medicine / by L. Emmett Holt ... with two hundred and forty-one illustrations, including eight coloured plates.

  • Luther Emmett Holt
Date:
1907
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Credit: The diseases of infancy and childhood : for the use of students and practitioners of medicine / by L. Emmett Holt ... with two hundred and forty-one illustrations, including eight coloured plates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    PAET I. CHAPTER PAGE I.—Hygiene and General Care of Infants and Young Children . . 1 Care of the newly-born child; bathing; clothing; care of the eyes; care of the mouth and teeth; care of the skin ; care of the genital organs; vaccina- tion ; training to proper control of rectum and bladder; general hygiene of the nervous system; sleep; exercise; airing; the nursery; the nurse; the amount of air space required by infants; the care of premature and delicate infants; incubators; the feeding of the premature infant. II.—Growth and Development of the Body 15 Weight; height; growth of extremities as compared with the trunk; the head; the chest; the abdomen; muscular development; development of spe- cial senses; speech; dentition. III.—Peculiarities of Disease in Children 30 Etiology; symptomatology and diagnosis; pathology; prognosis and infant mortality ; prophylaxis; therapeutics. PART II. Section I.—Diseases of the Newly-Born. I.—Asphyxia go, II. —Congenital Atelectasis ........ 74 III. —Icterus m IV. —The Acute Infectious Diseases of the Newly-Born .... 81 The acute pyogenic diseases; ophthalmia; tetanus; epidemic hemoglobinuria; fatty degeneration of the newly-born; pemphigus. V.—Hemorrhages 95 Traumatic or accidental haemorrhages; spontaneous hemorrhages. VI.—Birth Paralyses -^07 Cerebral paralysis; facial paralysis; paralysis of the upper extremity. VII.—Tumours of the Umbilicus, etc ■ U3 Umbilical hernia; mastitis; intestinal obstruction; diaphragmatic hernia; sclerema; oedema; inanition fever. Section II.—Nutrition. I.—Introductory The food constituents and tho purposes they subserve in nutrition.
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