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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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ions exhibited included a largeseries of specimens preserved by Jores Formalin method,which was fully described in Pediatrics last year. The speci-mens had preserved their colors in a wonderful manner. 414 PEDIATRICS. Mr. H. J. Stiles and Mr. Andrew Watt exhibited a largecollection of Stereoscopic Photographs of Surgical Affectionsin Children. This form of photography is now being largelyused for teaching purposes in Edinburgh. Mr. Caird exhibited a series of Syphilitic Sequestra. Inone of these, from a case of congenital syphilis in which deathoccurred at the age of 20, the sequestrum included practicallythe whole of both parietal bones and the frontal plate of thefrontal bone. The bone was much thickened, extremelydense and hard, and exhibited marks where unsuccessfulefforts had been made to trephine. During life the necrosedbone had roofed in a large cavity which contained air andfetid pus, and communicated to the exterior by severalsinuses. Cavity containingSinus air and fetid pus
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Diagram of skull in mesial section. Mr. Cairds case. A particularly interesting exhibit was shown by Dr. FordRobertson, Pathologist to the Scottish Asylums Board.Studying Sections of the Nervous System prepared by NewMethods, Dr. Robertson discovered a variety of cell which hashitherto been undescribed. These cells are of mesoblasticorigin, and have been named by Dr. Robertson mesogliacells. They are quite distinct from the hemoglia cells, hav-ing special morphological characteristics and behaving quitedifferently in pathological conditions. They are foundscattered throughout the nervous system, and are as numerousas the neuroglia cells. They have peculiar staining reactions,and in some of the specimens shown, prepared by a specialmethod, the mesoglia cells stood out in sharp definition, while PEDIATRICS. 4i5 the neuroglia cells and the nerve cells remained unstained. Afull description of these cells, which Dr. Robertson hopes topublish soon, is awaited with much interest. Dr. Webster

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