Cyclopaedia of the diseases of children, medical and surgical (1889) (14594109020)

Merkel's specimen of cystic elephantiasis
Identifier: cyclopaediaofdis05keat (find matches)
Title: Cyclopaedia of the diseases of children, medical and surgical
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Keating, John M. (John Marie), 1852-1893 Edwards, William A Keating, John M. (John Marie), 1852-1893
Subjects: Children
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library



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CONGENITAL DISORDERS and DI8EA8ES OF THE NEW-BORN. O and in malaria. According to Fnhr (7), the first Btep in the morbid processis the occurrence of endometritis in the mother, leading to placental hyper-plasia, to overfilling of the foetal circulation with resulting obstructionami oedema ; the (edema in the placenta itself is due to secondary obstruc-tion in it. The difficulties in accepting any of these theories are great, itbeing often impossible to distinguish between causes and effects; but itseems clear that the foetal dropsy is a manifestation of several differentpathological processes, and this is quite in keeping with what is known ofadult dropsy. In one of my observations the proportion of proteids in theperitoneal effusion was so small as to suggest a blood-dropsy; but that itmay also be obstructive or inflammatory in origin seems beyond doubt. Ina word, the dropsy is a symptom. The treatment of this malady has notbeen successful; in the case of one of my observations the m