Identifier: pediatrics1519unse (find matches)
Title: Pediatrics.
Year: 1903 (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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this was written he has grown an additional inch and aquarter in three months.) The history of my patient is asfollows: Benjamin L., seven years one month old, weight 39^pounds, height 2 feet 11 inches. About normal for a three-year-old child. Was a nursling. Born at full term in America, ofRussian parents, not related. One of eight children, one of whomis paraplegic. No family history obtainable. The mother has amedium-sized parenchymatous goiter, unaccompanied by symp-toms. Has been, and is, a healthy woman. She noticed that thischild was unusually cold and pallid at his ninth month, and thathe did not act as a child of his age should. He was obstinatelyconstipated from birth and had a pot belly without umbilicalhernia or signs of rickets. Did not sit up until after his first yearand did not walk until the middle of his third year. No eruption ABSTRACTS of teeth until after the first year, and the anterior fontahelle -Wasnt)t cidsed until his fourth yeah Survived croup at his sixth
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Fig. 3. week, and passed through attacks of measles, scarlet fever,diphtheria and pertussis. Began to talk imperfectly in a low-pitched, hoarse voice during his fourth year, and until he was 38o ABSTRACTS placed under treatment; suffered also from incontinence of urineand feces. At three and a half years, after which for a short timehe was placed on thyroid feeding, he presented the typical signsof a myxedematous idiot. See Figs i and 2. When first seen byme at his eighth year he was dwarfed to the size of a three-year-old child; walked with waddling gait and stood with a broadenedbase, clinging to something for support. He swayed when heclosed his eyes. His head was too large for his body. He pre-sented a stolid, unintelligent, bloated, ashy countenance, withwrinkled forehead, flattened, broad, thick nose and thick lips, be-hind which were the decayed, deciduous teeth. His hair wasslightly roughened, but plentiful. When asked his name he husk-ily and unintelligibly muttered it. There

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