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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
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absorption and a meltingprocess, are the real beginnings of cavities. At times these masses result inchalk deposits. The question of the specific origin of the disease has beenfinally settled by the investigations of Koch, who proved the specific micro-organism known as the tubercle bacillus to be the pathological factor. Biedert found IG cases of primary intestinal tuberculosis among 310-tpost-mortems. Heller found 7.4 2^^! cent, of primary tuberculosis among 714 post-mortems in diphtheria, and a total of 19.6 per cent, of all varieties oftuberculosis among these 714 cases. Orth states that primary intestinal tuberculosis is exceedingly rare inBerlin because of the universal use of sterilized or boiled milk.^ ^Zeitschr. f. Hygiene, Bd. 9, 1892, Heft 3. ^I have collected and described a series of important observations on tli?association of cows milk with tuberculosis. The pathology of the cows udder andthe milk ducts are also described. (See chapter on Cows )\Tilk.) TUBERCULOSIS. 489
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Fig. 157—Tuberculosis. Horizontalsection through the tuberculous lower lobeof the right lung of a two-year-old child.(a) caseous focus in the region of the an-terior border; (h) nontuberculous poster-ior border; (c) transverse section of bron-chus; (d,d^) caseated lymph glands; (c)pulmonary vein; (f) point of adhesion ofthe vein e with the lymph gland d^) (g)tubercle in the lymph vessels of thelung parenchyma; (h) periarterial; (i)peribronchial; (k) perivenous tubercles;pleura; (m) tubercle in its connective ti^(Ziegler.) (1) \\\\\\A\ vo>sel tulHM\lo!^ of tliosue of tho liilus of the Uuh:-. X;>. ■■1 490 THE INFECTIOUS DISEASES Baginsky reports that he found 8 cases of tuberculosis that died among871 nurslings at his Berlin hospital. These were all under ten months ofage. On the other hand he found, among 266 children in the second year,13 died of miliary tuberculosis. One hundred and eighty-two children outof 611 died of miliary tuberculosis between the age of 2 and 4 year

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