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Title: Diseases of children, for nurses, including infant feeding, therapeutic measures employed in childhood, treatment for emergencies, prophylaxis, hygiene, and nursing
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: McCombs, Robert Shelmerdine, 1880-
Subjects: Children Nursing
Publisher: Philadelphia, London : W. B. Saunders company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ica usually recover unless thefever is marked. The gangrenous form is fatal. Diseases of the Spleen The spleen is enlarged in a number of conditions, themost frequent of which are malaria, typhoid, rickets,syphilis, and tuberculosis. It is also seen in simple anemia accompanied bymoderate leukocytosis, in Bantis disease, in von Jakschsdisease, ui leukemia, and Hodgkins disease. In the lasttwo the liver is also enlarged. It may accompany any of the acute infectious diseases;it is seen in amyloid degenerations; and in cardiac condi-tions m. which there is obstruction to the venous circula-tion. The spleen has been removed in cases of perniciousanemia with very good results. CHAPTER IXNERVOUS DISEASES ANATOMY OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM The central nervous system is composed of the brain,the spinal cord, and their coverings. The brain is contained ^vithin the cavity of the skull.It is the center of thought, of the perception of the fivesenses, and of the voluntary motor activities of the body.
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Fig. 51.—Functional areas of the cerebral cortex, left hemisphere (A. A. Stevens). The brain or cerebrum is divided into the right andleft hemispheres by the median fissure. The two hemis-pheres are united by fibers running through the corpuscallosum.200 NERVOUS DISEASES 20I The lower portion is divided into the cerebellum, the crura, the pons, and the medulla.The brain is composed of gray and while matter, the gray matter being external and about a half inch in thickness; it is called the corlex. The rest of the brain is made up principally of white matter and consists of nerve fibers running in various directions. The corlex presents upon itssurface deep grooves, which arecalled fissures or sulci. Thesefissures are numerous and dividethe brain into convolutions. Thisarrangement gives the greatestarea of cortex in the smallestamount of space. The more de-veloped the convolutions, the greaterthe intellect of the individual.The fissures also divide the braininto different lohes, such

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