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Title: Pediatrics.
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Pediatrics Children Infants Pediatrics Disease Disease
Publisher: New York : Van Publishing
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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ed only two weeks. In this baby also the curvature wasto the left, but somewhat lower. No evidence of rickets wasdiscovered in this child; the deformity was probably con-genital, and due to some malposition in utero. The mother statedthat the vertex presented, and that the labor was easy. The prognosis in the congenital and early rachitic cases isserious; if untreated, the deformity usually increases, andmay become very severe. Manual correction should be employed several times daily,and the child carried on the arm of the side toward which thespine bends. If the babys spine curves to the left, it shouldbe carried on the mothers left arm, and vice versa. A smallfirm hair cushion should be placed under the babys arm of theconvex side. If necessary, the child may be strapped to aframe with correcting pads for a time, and given dailymassage. The most active treatment should be institutedwhile the child is small, as it will then be most effective.60 West Fifty-fifth Street. PEDIATRICS. 55
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PEDIATRICS. ALVEOLAR CATARRH IN CHILDREN. By J. C. Gittings, M.D., and Charles H. Judson, M,D.Philadelphia. DURING the service of Dr. Harvey Shoemaker at theChildrens Hospital Dispensary, Philadelphia, weobserved among the cases of pneumonia a typewhich seemed to differ from simple bronchitis on theone hand and broncho-pneumonia on the other, and which wedesignate as Alveolar Catarrh. The condition was describedby Douglas Powell in Diseases of the Lungs a?id Pleura, pp.179-198, as follows: According to this author the inflammatory process inalveolar catarrh begins as a proliferation of the alveolar epithe-lium. In the mildest cases the inflammatory products may beexpectorated, leaving the alveolar walls undamaged; wherethe degree of inflammation is greater the proliferated epithe-lium and the leucocytes are sufficient to completely block thealveoli. The exudate undergoes degeneration and may bepartially absorbed or partially expectorated, but the alveolarwalls have been damaged and pe

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