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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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other pupils when pointswere used. I had more trouble and criticism following these 400 cases from glycerinized lymph than I did with the entire 5,123 cases of vaccinations from points. I noticed the period of takingwas marked by a great variance, some cases taking on inflam-matory action in three days, while others commenced on the fifteenth and sixteenth days. I am forced to believe that the quantity of lymph in a fulltube is too large for the majority of people, especially for children, from whom my statistics were taken. The Advantages of Glycerinized Lymph Vaccination. 1. Greater percentage in taking. 2. Can be kept pure much longer. 3. Physicians are more apt to get a pure article fromstores. PEDIATRICS. THE THOMAS KNEE SPLINT. By Henry Ling Taylor, M.D.,New York. THIS splint is in effect an ischiatic crutch. It takes the weight of the body on the inner segment of the paddedmetal ring, upon which the tuberosity of the ischiumrests, and transmits it through the rigid side-bars to the
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ground. The brace is about three inches longer than the limb,the difference being made up by a high sole on the well side. 200 PEDIATRICS. This enables the patient to walk without putting any weight on the hip, knee or ankle joints of the affected side. The leg is secured in place by many turns of a bandage or by a leather lacing, which is designed to hold the knee in the extended position. If, however, the knee is very sore, or if there is much tendency to flexion, it is much better to separately immobilize the joint by a plaster bandage extending from above the ankle nearly to the crotch. The ring in the picture is purposely made large enough to admit the legencased in plaster. It is also well in the acute cases to apply adhesive plasters to the sides of the leg, which may be buckledinto straps fastened to the bottom of the brace, in order to produce extension. In cases where these extension straps are not needed the apparatus may be suspended from the opposite shoulder by a strap buckled to t

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