On infantilism from chronic intestinal infection : characterized by the overgrowth and persistence of flora of the nursling period. A study of the clinical course, bacteriology, chemistry and therapeutics of arrested development in infancy / by C.A.Herter.

  • Herter, Christian Archibald, 1865-1910.
Date:
1908
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    to time without definitely assignable cause. In another case (Case II) there developed attacks of petit mat which, as will afterwards be more fully stated, gave way to epileptiform seizures of grand mal. In four of the ^yq cases of infantilism there were very slight indications of rickets, but it may be said in general that the signs of rickets, if present at all, do not form part of the symptom-complex at present under discus- sion. Outside the present group I have seen well-marked instances which showed no signs of rickets. There are no striking pulmonary or circulatory peculiarities in these cases. The pulse is usually regular when the patients are quiet, of low tension and small in volume. The pulse is unduly accelerated by slight acti\dty or slight exterior nervous stimuli. Abnormalities of the spleen, liver or thyroid have not been detected. In one case (Case I) there was slight enlargement of the posterior cervical glands. A status of blood occurs readily in artificially congested areas of the skin—an effect like that of the so-called meningeal streak being readily produced. The tongue is apt to be somewhat more red than normal, and the papillae swollen, but in none of our cases was there any denu- dation of epithelium or any indication of the occurrence of geographical tongue. The tongue 2