Lectures on the diseases of infancy and childhood / by Charles West.

  • West, Charles, 1816-1898.
Date:
1850
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    PAGE occasional necessity for free depletion . . . . .243 case in illustration ....... 243 Suggestions as to general management,and the avoidance of circumstances likely to produce an attack ....-• 245 LECTURE XXLT. HoopingCotjgh .......•• 246 Course of the disease in its simplest form ..... 246 subject to great variations in its mode of onset and degree of severity . 248 Signification of the hoop ...... 251 Course of the disease when declining ..... 252 Its danger depends on its complications ..... 252 Complication with bronchitis ....... 253 at its outset, or when it has continued for some time . . . 253 Complication with disorder of the nervous system . . . .255 sometimes exists from the first, and causes death even before characters of disease are fully developed, but may come on at any period . 255 various forms assumed by disorder of nervous system . . . 257 great danger when paroxysms of cough terminate in convulsions . 257 caution as to nervous character of dyspnoea in many cases, and as to danger of overtreating it ...... . 257 true hydrocephalus rare as a complication .... 258 LECTURE XXIII. Hooping-Cough continued Complications with diarrhoea and intestinal disorder with great irritability of the stomach . with measles and varicella . . Duration of the disease Relapses . . ■ Influence of age, sex, season, &c, in its production Post-mortem appearances . . . Treatment ..... no real specific for hooping-cough . Treatment of first and second stages utility of hydrocyanic acid . of counter-irritation . . of attention to temperature danger of overtreating the bronchitis of hooping-cough Treatment of third stage of disease 259 259 260 260 261 262 262 264 266 266 266 267 268 269 269 272 LECTURE XXIV. PuLMONART PHTHISIS . . . . . . . .273 differences exist between the tuberculous cachexia in the child and in the adult ........ 274 Anatomical peculiarities of pulmonary phthisis in the child . . , 275 frequency of miliary tubercle and of gray granulations in the lungs inde- pendent of each other, and of other forms of tubercle . .275 frequency of tubercular infiltration . 275 rarity of cavities • *...... 276 frequent affection of bronchial glands ..... 277 changes in tuberculous bronchia] glands .... 277 perforation of bronchi, and elimination of tubercular matter , 279 Symptoms of phthisis •••... , 280 their differences from those of the disease in the adult . . , 280 danger of overlooking its early stage, or of mistaking it for remittent fever, &c. . . . . . . < ,280 peculiarities of its subsequent course • . . . 281 Bronchial Phthisis ••••.... 281 Characteristics . . . . . , , .281 remarkable fluctuations in its course ..... 282