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Identifier: pediatrics9190unse (find matches)
Title: Pediatrics.
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Pediatrics Children Infants Pediatrics Disease Disease
Publisher: New York : Van Publishing
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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eatment as they were able to give it, until now,when the boy is nearly 17 years of age they occur twice a day.The lad is mentally deficient, has never gone to school, andhas still complete right-sided paralysis with muscular rigidityand contractures. Case II.—Timothy R.. aged 18 months, July 20, 1896,with a temperature of 106.50 F. after a malarial chill had severeand lasting convulsions controlled only by chloroform inhala-tions, while cold bathing was resorted to for reduction of theexcessive temperature. The convulsions ceased after two hours * Read before the Quincy Medical and Library Association, November, 1899. PEDIATRICS. in and the temperature was normal the following day, but therewas present complete paralysis of the right arm and leg and theleft side of the face and tongue. This remained unimprovedfor some weeks when he was able to walk dragging the rightleg, but had no use of the right arm. Gradually, some powerin the muscles of the upper arm was noticed and this spread
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by degrees until by the end of a year he made considerable useof the hand. The child is today, after the lapse of over threeyears from the appearance of the hemiplegia, bright, intelli-gent and well-grown, and shows not a trace of the palsy whichwas so long complete. He uses the left hand by preference,having become left-handed through the long period of disuseof the right side; but I can note no difference in the power of 112 PEDIATRICS. the grasp of the two hands. He is, if anything, superior inmental and physical development to his twin sister who hasnever had a serious illness. The accompanying photographshows the use the patient has of arm and leg and the relativedevelopment of the two sides. The treatment used in this casewas 10 gr. potassium iodide per diem in divided doses, continuedfor several months. Two cases of any sort, unaccompanied by autopsies, makea relatively small number upon which to base very positiveviews as to pathology, prognosis or therapeutics, but thesehave

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