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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old. Was two weeks prematurely born. She was thesecond child. The first child died of diphtheria; it was also prematurely born, anddied when its mother was four months pregnant with the presrmt baby. The motherliad a normal pregnan(;y, l)ut was greatly troubled with headaches and dizziness, andsuffered mentally over the loss of the first child. The liahy.—When the baby was six weeks old the mother first noticed tliat itbreathed with difficulty. It had been vomiting continuously. Diarrha^a has existedfor ten weeks. There is an occasional cough. Since two weeks the baby appearscolicky and cries with apparent pain. Htat. Prws.—A pale, very anaemic looking child, with large fontanel, somewhatdepressed, the size of a silver quarter. The Eyes.—There was a slight exophthalmus. The nose, somewhat depressed.Slight coryza. The Heart.—The area of dullness extends from the right side to the left borderof the sternum, corresponding to the lower border of the third rib. The apex is FRONT
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Fig. 110.—Child with Persistence of the Ductus Arteriosus Botalli. X, Loudmurmur audible—blowing presystolic. (Original.) at the lower border of the fifth rib, immediately under the mamilla. The heart issomewhat enlarged toward the left side. Auscultation.—A loud presystolic murmur is heard over the whole area of theheart. There is marked abdominal respiration. The lungs are normal in percussion.Moist rales can be heard over both lungs. The Abdomen.—The abdomen is distended and is tym))aniti( on percussion. Itfeels doughy on palpation. There is no cyanosis of the lingers or toes. There isa mild dyspntea. The adi))Ose tissue is not very np))arent. There is markedj)r()miiience of the subcutaneous veins of the scalp. The clinical history of the mollier did not give any exideneo of miscarriage,no syphilis, and no family tuberculosis. EXDOCAUDITIS. This (liseaso is o( fro()iioni (H^curroiu-o diiriiior infmu\ :ini1 oliililhood.Congviiilal (>n(1ocar(li(is lias riwuirntly boon ivp

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