Diseases of Children: Transactions of the Section1900 - Children |
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Page 93 - statistics seem to justify this conclusion, but it has been suggested by others that inasmuch as more males than females are born each year, the larger number of deaths in males may thus be reconciled, for surely it would be contrary to reasonable expectation, as females are more delicately organized, while the exciting causes are probably about equal.
Page 93 - show that over 60 per cent. of deaths from convulsions, up to 20 years, occur in infants under 1 year of age. Convulsions are not only more common in infancy, but much more fatal than later in life, and for reasons that are very apparent. It has been stated by some good observers that males seem to be more susceptible than females;
Page 91 - Convulsions are in all probability due to an exaltation of the lower nerve-centers; or more frequently, to a suspension of the inhibitory power of the higher cerebral centers"—or both of these conditions may exist at the same time—and further, "It remains to be said that we are still very much in the dark as to the immediate processes producing convulsions.
Page 91 - At birth, the lower centers only are developed, hence control is limited until the higher centers become competent to exert inhibition; hence in the earlier months of life convulsions are common, and less so after two years.
Page 93 - Of all the manifold predisposing causes of convulsions in young children, the most important one is the natural instability of the nervous centers, characteristic of early life, and associated with the non-development of voluntary centers of the cortex; hence it is that age is a most important factor in the etiology of convulsions; and under 2 years is recognized as by far the most susceptible period,
Page 92 - the union of the oxygen of the air with the carbon of the fuel
Page 66 - times they are taught to know a little about everything and to know it all ill, which is a great deal
Page 91 - remains to be said that we are still very much in the dark as to the immediate processes producing convulsions.
Page 118 - in 1840, was the first to call the attention of the profession to the value of
Page 35 - If a single arm appears paralyzed in a new-born infant, very likely it is a birth palsy; but before concluding that it is due to injury of a nerve alone, it is well to examine closely for fracture of a clavicle or separation of the upper epiphysis of the