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Title: Medical diseases of infancy and childhood
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Williams, Dawson, 1854- (from old catalog) Churchill, Frank Spooner, 1864- (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Children
Publisher: Philadelphia and New York, Lea brothers & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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t long afterthe skin affections have disappeared under treatment. This is nodoubt due, in part at least, to the great liability of the nasal mucousmembrane in infants to catarrh, owing, perhaps, to the fact that theybreathe altogether through the nose. Indeed, the acute coryza,which is very common in infants, and is often associated with laryn- INHERITED SYPHILIS. 197 gitis, mav, if the patient bo seen first when the attack is subsiding,k»ad to an ungrounded susploion of syphilis. The hirvnx is oftenatlected soon after the nose, and the ery becomes toneU\-s, hoarse, ov,as it were, whis()ering. Sores in the mouth arc rare in the earlystage, but occasionally a superficial glossitis occurs simultaneouslywith the erythema of the buttocks, which indeed it much resembles ;the tongue is of a uniform beefy-red color and smooth, or it )u*cscntsa few very superficial linear ulcers. A little later, in associationwith either ulceration of skin lesions on the face or mucous tubercles Fig. 1.>.
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Drawing (semi-diagrammatic) of a well-nourished infant presenting an extensive, dry, des-quamating syphilitic eruption, to illustrate the distrihutinn of the eruption in regions speciallyliable to irritation by friction (upj>er arm, knet-s) or by secretions i buttocks, ncvk, mouth). Theai.rnt.r .rr.-,t .f , l.vel Corresponding to the upfn-r edge of the napkin is well seen. in tiic moutii, shallow linear ulcerations affecting the red margin ofthe lips and the adjacent mucous membrane form, especially abouttlir angles of the mouth. Mucous tubercles are a later manifestation. They appear u>ually ■ »m the sixth to the twelfth month of life, and are apt to recur forlour or five years. They are met with especially alxiut the angleof the mouth an<l the anus. A.s.sociated with them deep cracks may •rm at the angle of the mouth, j)roducing the well-known rhagades, 198 SYPHILIS. which arc often very obstinate and leave permanent scars. At theanus the condylomata sometimes break do

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