Manual of the Diseases of Children

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Blakistons̓ Son & Company, 1901 - 843 pages
 

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Page 739 - Eczema is an inflammatory, acute or chronic, non-contagious disease of the skin, characterized at its commencement by erythema, papules, vesicles, or pustules, or a combination of these lesions, accompanied by more or less infiltration and itching, terminating either in discharge with the formation of crusts or in desquamation.
Page 144 - One hundred and twenty grammes (four ounces) of coarse oatmeal are allowed to soak in a quart of cold water for twelve hours. The mixture is then boiled down so as to make a pint, and is strained through a fine cloth while it is hot. When it cools a jelly is formed, which is kept on ice until needed.
Page 672 - ... an eruption, which passes through the stages of papule, vesicle, pustule, and crust.
Page 271 - Chlorid of ammonia, in doses of from three to five grains every two or three hours, has been greatly praised.
Page 385 - ... 4. Murmurs are heard over comparatively large areas. A study of differences in the quality of the sounds and points of greatest intensity will help us here. 5. The rate may be increased and the rhythm altered by slight causes. 6. In rachitic children and in those affected by empyema or pleural effusions and adhesions the apex may appear in an abnormal position. 7. Prominence of the precordia is sometimes marked.
Page 820 - I per cent, solution of nitrate of silver should be instilled into the eye.
Page 754 - They vary in size from that of a small nut to that of...
Page 181 - The disease with which it is most likely to be confounded is...
Page 88 - However, it is generally recommended that a drop or two of a solution of five grains of nitrate of silver to the ounce of distilled water be dropped in the eyes from a medicine dropper.
Page 177 - Beta-naphthol bismuth, in doses of from one to five grains, according to the age of the child, and repeated every three or four hours, has given good results.

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