On the wasting diseases of infants and children / by Eustace Smith.

  • Smith, Eustace, 1835-1914.
Date:
1888
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Credit: On the wasting diseases of infants and children / by Eustace Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER IV. Rickets. Preliminary symptoms those of general mal-nutrition Symptoms of beginning Deformities of bone Bones of skull and face Distinction between rickety and hydrocephalic skull Cranio-tabes .... Dentition Teeth sometimes unaffected Illustrative case .... Spine Thorax Deformities of long bones and of pelvis Arrest of growth of bones . Articulations .... Relaxation of ligaments Other symptoms .... Enlargement of liver and spleen . Intellect General behaviour of a rickety child Complications .... Catarrh and bronchitis . Diarrhoea .... Laryngismus stridulus . Convulsions .... Chronic hydrocephalus . Scurvy ..... Death from intensity of the general disease Favourable termination Resumption of dentition Pathology Rickets a general disease Morbid anatomy .... Ossification perverted . Reconsolidation of rickety bone . Analysis of rickety bone Emphysema and collapse Alterations in fiver spleen . other organs . Urine Rickets and osteomalacia PAGE 122 123 124 126 127 128 129 129 129 129 130 132 135 136 136 137 139 139 140 140 140 141 142 143 144 145 147 147 148 149 149 150 150 152 153 154 155 155 156 157 158