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Identifier: diseasesofinfan00fisc (find matches)
Title: Diseases of infancy and childhood
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Fischer, Louis, 1864- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Children
Publisher: Philadelphia, F. A. Davis company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Fig. 158.—Acute Pulmonary Miliary Tuberculosis (Cut Surface of theLung.) (a) so-called obsolete tubercle (old encapsulated caseous focus), fb)induration, (cj caseous, partly agminated nodules(transverse section ofcaseous bronchi.) (dj submiliary noncaseated tubercle in the true lungtissue, fe) tubercle of the pulmonary pleura. One half natural size. (Lang-erhans.) StilP considers these facts and offers some interesting statistics, based,not on clinical observation, but on post-mortem findings, for the solutionof this problem. In 769 autopsies of children, tubercle was found in 269,or 35.2 per cent. Tuberculosis was the actual cause of deaths in 252, or 32.8per cent. From these statistics, therefore, it can be roughly estimated that Clinical Journal, London. PLATK XX
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Disseminated pulmonary tuberculosis with collapsid riuht huig and a naturalpncniniothorax. Child four years old. TUBERCULOSIS. 491 about one-third of the deaths in childhood are due to tuberculosis in oneform or other. While children are thus shown to be specially subject tothis disease^ they are not equally so at all ages, for Still shows that up to theage of 4 the percentage is as high as 71, and between 4 and 8 is still 22.5;after 8 it diminishes to 6.5. Moreover, the greater part of the tuberculosisunder the age of 4—43.4 of the 71 per cent.—occurred in children under2 years of age. This great frequency of tuberculosis in infancy has beenused as an argument in favor of the. idea of infection through milk, theprimary lesion being in the digestive tract. It is true. Still says, that in-testinal tuberculosis is exceedingly common in children; it existed in 52per cent, of his cases examined, but so also is that of the brain and meninges—48 per cent.—and that of the lungs is fa

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