On the disorders of infantile development, and rickets : preceded by observations on the nature, peculiar influence, and modifying agencies of temperaments / by A. Schoepf Merei.

  • Schoepf Merei, Agost, 1804-1858.
Date:
1855
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Credit: On the disorders of infantile development, and rickets : preceded by observations on the nature, peculiar influence, and modifying agencies of temperaments / by A. Schoepf Merei. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the ankle and plantar surface; difTerence between the rachitic valgtM and the congenital valgus; treatment; nature of the valgus-lik* relaxation. Early diagnosis of rachitism; its essential and characteristic symptoms lOl The first stage of rachitism frequently over-looked—Two periods, at which the disorder sets in—The earliest symptoms—The enlargement of the wrist and ankle-joints alone diagnostically characteristic. Relation of rachitism to scrofulo-tuberculous affections lOi Severe degrees of rickets seldom combined with severe forma of scrofu- losis—In rural districts eczema, impetigo and achor of the face and Bcalp not seldom observed, whereas rickets is a rare complaint there— Tuberculosis seldom observed along with a high degree of the rachitic chest. Diseases of rachitic children 197 Laryngeal spasm a most frequent one; liable to pass into fits— Hydrocephalus ; its treatment—Laryngeal and bronchial sub-inilamma- tion and catarrh—Emphysema; difficulties of diagnosis—CataiThal pneumonia a frequent, pleurisy and primary lobar pneumonia a rare occurrence—Dyspnoea of rachitic children—Treatment of their respiratory diseases—Headache. Investigation of the principal causes of rachitism, their mode of action 800 Predisposition; exciting causes; hereditary transmission of the rachitic predisposition—Improper food—Unwholesome properties of human milk—Starchy articles—Omission or unsuitable kinds of ani- mal food—Impure air—Uncleanliness, neglected cultivation of the Ekin. The nature of rachitism; its preventive and curative means 906 Disordered spinal innervation as proximate cause—Altered chemism of the blood; resembling to, but not identical with, chloro-anaemia. The preventive and curative means—Pure air—Suitable diet; difiTerent food according to different temperaments—Bathing and sponging— Warm bath; warm salt hath; gelatinous bath; cold sponging—Inter- nal remedies: cod-liver oil; its heneficial effects; some diflScultiea with it; rules for its use—The light brown quality of Norway and the English, comparatively considered; the English preferable—Iron; its indication, and heneficial effects; the saccharo-carbonate, a suitable preparation; contraindications—Quinine; its indications and effects less clear and decisive—Signs requiring the suspension of the use of the remedies mentioned—Signs of the favourable effects of remedies— Cturability of rachitism—Mechanical measures little admissible.