The Diseases of Infancy and Childhood
Designed for the Use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine (Classic Reprint)
Description:... Excerpt from The Diseases of Infancy and Childhood: Designed for the Use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine The preparation of a third edition of this Work has brought the Opportunity to revise it as well as to introduce new matter. The advances in our knowledge of the special pathology, diagnosis and treatment of the most important disease-s of infancy and childhood during the past three years have been such as to add materially to our understanding of many Obscure problems in Pediatrics. I have therefore in the light'of these advances and my own accumulating experience added to or recast many chapters of this work. In the technic Of treatment and diagnosis of the infectious diseases the reader Will find much that is new and yet Well tried in practice. Infant feeding, Which has advanced as to our understanding of cer tain disturbances of nutrition, has been carefully revised; the diseases of the stomach, and those of the nervous system, such as cerebral pals-ies, encephalitis, poliomyelitis, tetany, amaurotic idiocy, have been recast. The chapters on cystitis and pyelitis have also been brought up to date; and chapters have been added on idiocy, dwarf ism, neurotic conditions Which Will be found to be of value to the practitioner. The illustrations have been enriched by carefully exe cuted drawings of my own cases for the most part and those of patients in institutions With Which I am connected. I Wish to thank my colleagues, Drs. E. Lee Meierhof, Curtis C. Eves, and Cr. S. Dixon, for their kind cooperation in preparing the illustrations for the chapters on adenoids and the examination of the ear; and also Dr. Henry Frauenthal, for illustrations Of cases of poliomyelitis and cerebral palsies. To my publishers thanks are due for their uniform courtesy and encouragement.
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