Medical diseases of infancy and childhood / by Dawson Williams.

  • Dawson Williams
Date:
1900
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Credit: Medical diseases of infancy and childhood / by Dawson Williams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    CHAPTER V. ACUTE SPECIFIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES: INTRODUCTORY. Mortality due to the Acute Specific Infectious Diseases—Incubation Period- Prophylaxis—Complications and Sequela—General Remarks on Treatment: Nursing, Food, Drink, Alcohol— Hydrotherapeutic Treatment—Antipyretic Drugs—Treatment of Adynamia °3 CHAPTER VI. ACUTE SPECIFIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES {continued). Small-pox—Vaccination—Symptoms and Treatment of Small-pox—Varicella— Measles—Rubella—Scarlet Fever 94 CHAPTER VII. ACUTE SPECIFIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES {continued). Influenza—Whooping-cough—Mumps—Glandular Fever—Cerebro-spinal Men- ingitis—Enteric Fever 112 CHAPTER VIII. ACUTE SPECIFIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES {concluded). Diphtheria—Incubation Period—Pathology—Symptoms—Diphtherial Palsy— Diagnosis—Prognosis—Antitoxin Treatment—General and Local Treat- ment—[Immunization] 132 CHAPTER IX. MALARIAL FEVER. The Hsematozoon—Varieties of Malarial Fever : Quotidian ; ^Estivo-autumnal); Pernicious—Malarial Cachexia—Diagnosis—Prognosis—Treatment 152 CHAPTER X. TUBERCULOSIS: ETIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY. The Tubercle Bacillus—The Tuberculous Diathesis—Sources of Infection Milk—Predisposing Diseases—Sites of Primary Infection : Naso-Pharynx and Cervical Glands ; Ear ; Intestines—Varieties of the Tuberculous Proc- ess—Age Incidence—Prevalence of Tuberculosis in Childhood Sex.... lofi CHAPTER XI. CLINICAL VARIETIES OF TUBERCULOSIS. Tuberculosis and Scrofula—General Tuberculosis : Acute and Chronic Tuber- culosis of Bones and Joints—Tuberculosis of Lymphatic Glands ; the Cervi- cal and Tracheo-bronchial Glands 163
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