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Title: Diseases of children, for nurses, including infant feeding, therapeutic measures employed in childhood, treatment for emergencies, prophylaxis, hygiene, and nursing
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: McCombs, Robert Shelmerdine, 1880-
Subjects: Children Nursing
Publisher: Philadelphia, London : W. B. Saunders company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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n this way prevent-ing the spread of the disease. Quinin is a specific rem-edy, killing the hematozoa. The dose is from 5 to 10gr. a day in divided doses (four years), and in ordinarycases in older children is from 15 to 20 gr. a day individed doses. The drug is given so that the last dose istaken two hours before the expected chill. The cold stageis treated with hot-water bottles and blankets, and the hotstage by sponging. SYPHILIS Syphilis is a communicable disease and may be ac-quired or hereditary. It is caused by the spirochaeta pallida. Syphilis is acquired usually from the mother of the childor from syphilitic wet-nurses. It follows the same course 19 290 DISEASES OF CHILDREN FOR NURSES as syphilis in the adult and is divided into three stages:The first is characterized by a chancre, the second by arash, and the third by a hone lesion and ulcerations. It isnow considered contagious in all stages, but especially inthe second stage.Hereditary syphilis is more common. When bom the
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Fig. 94.—Hereditary syphDis: radiating fissures of the lips (after A. Fruhinsholz). child at times has large blebs on the skin surfaces andscars develop around the lips called rhagades, Sym-^toms,^The Bones.—Epiphysitis, an inflammationof the ends of the bones, is present. Later in the diseasechronic osteoperiostitis and syphihtic dactylitis are seen. The liver and the spleen are enlarged. THE INFECTIOUS FEVERS 291 The Respiratory Tract.—Pneumonia is common. Ulcersof the larynx are sometimes observed. Digestive Tract—h. chronic catarrh of the pharynxis present, causing snufHes. The Organs of Special Senses.—Otitic media and inter-stitial keratitis are common. Nervous Symptoms.—Ohm absent, but there may beimpairment of mentality. The children are weak and sickly and usually dieyoung. If three months pass after a child is born from syphil-itic parents without the appearance of any characteristicsymptoms, the child will, in all probability, escape. Hutchinsons Teeth.—li a c

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