Diseases of infancy and childhood (1914) (14585305960)

Identifier: diseasesofinfan00fisc (find matches)

Title: Diseases of infancy and childhood

Year: 1914 (1910s)

Authors: Fischer, Louis, 1864- (from old catalog)

Subjects: Children

Publisher: Philadelphia, F. A. Davis company (etc., etc.)

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Fig. 145.—Temperature chart, Case I. Typhoid Vaccines.—The preventive injection of typhoid fever vaccineis advocated by the United States Army. Sutficient evidence exists to showthat typhoid fever can be prevented by a prophylactic series of injections.When, therefore, children are to he sent into a district in which the sanitary ^ See complete article on Vulvovaginitis in Scarlet Fever. BACTERIAL VACCINES. 453 conditions are not perfcict^ it is advisafjle to i^ivo them a propliylactio injec-tion of typhoid vaccine^ rather than run the risk of contracting the disease. One-half of the adult dose should be injected and repeated if no severereaction occurs every three days for 3 doses. Pertussis Vaccine.—^The Bordet bacillus has been comb.ined with themicrococcus catarrhalis. This combination when injected seems to lessenthe paroxysms, and cut short the progress of the disease. Uv. >/.- ?j- ^Lc^^^J

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ea~c6^ Fig. 146.—T(>ni))ivatnio cliart, Case II. Rabies Vaccine.—Tjic rastour treatment has now been simplitied andcan ))e administered at home by simple vaccine injections. When a childhas been bitten by a dog, no time should be lost, but the treatment imme-diately began. The daily dose for injection is contained in an ampule. Thetreatment should be continued for twenty-one days. Vaccine Treatment of Pneumonia.—Literature records manv cases of))nenmonia in which niarkcnl ini;)i()\enuMif folKiwed imo or nuuv injec-tions of pneumococcus vaccine. My own i>\pei-icncc with the vaccine hasb(HMi good. 1 liave \\^^\\ (\w hclciom>ncous variety, altliough in m:iny casesan autogenous vaccine may he preferred. To ))rocure an autogenous vaccine 454 THE INFECTIOUS DISEASES. there are several difficulties encountered: First^ the difficulty of procuringsputum from a child. Second, the time lost in waiting for a blood cultureto grow, and then the preparation of a vaccine from the blood

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