Diseases of infancy and childhood (1914) (14771749042)

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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)ulse was small and comjuessible and varied between 80 and 1(50. The child died ofextreme exhaustion anil inanition, after suffering about ten davs oi terrible airoiw. 782 DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. Symptoms and Diag^nosis.—An irregular and intermitting pulse withCheyne-Stokes respiration and slight elevation of temperature are amongstthe early symptoms of tliis disease. The pupils show irregularity; not in-frequently one pupil will be dilated, while the other may be a pin-point.

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Fig. 2G7.—Case of Tuberculous Meningitis, well marked,ending fatally. (Original.) Vomiting is an early symptom in many cases, and may continue in spite ofrigid supervision of the diet, so that an organic lesion will be suspected.The vomiting is usually projectile in character. Later in the disease, thetemperature ranges from 100° to 103° or even higher. The pulse may TU13EUCLJLAK MENINGITIS. 783 vary between 80 and ICO beats per minute. The respirations are increasedand irregular in character, labored or sighing. Taclie Cerehrale.—^The tache cerebrale is frequently present. This isproduced by drawing the finger-nail quickly over the skin of the abdomen,arm, or leg, when a sharp, bright mark remains for several minutes. Some symptoms come on very slowly. Intense headache is complainedof and is usually supra-orbital in character. In the case referred to in thischapter the symptoms were masked for a number of days. The eyes usuallyshow tubercles in the choroid. In the case reported

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