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Identifier: pediatrics3189unse (find matches)
Title: Pediatrics.
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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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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It is quite distinctly marked in hercase. The flexion is more pronounced, the weight is bornemore apparently on the right leg, and the gluteo-femoral foldis still less marked; the left buttock is dropped still lowerthan in the case of the first patient. Let us pass on a little farther in the disease. You willnotice that this child (Fig. 38) presents the characteristics ofthe latter almost in duplicate, except that each one is exag-gerated a trifle. The body is thrown sufficiently to the rightto cause a slight lateral curvature, the thigh is more flexedupon the pelvis, the dwindling of the thigh muscles is moremarked. In this case we have a still farther step in advance: the *Read before the Medical Society of the State of New York, January26, 1897. 292 PEDIATRICS. patients thigh has now become tender, and, involuntarily, thechild puts her hand to it to protect herself. Here is a little boy (Figs. 39 and 40) who shows the samesymptoms, but in his case the abduction hasbecome marked as
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Fig. 34. Fig. 35. PEDIATRICS. 293 well as the flexion. In the first case there was no abduction; inthe second there was very trifling abduction as well as flexion ;in the third and fourth patients the abduction was well marked,and in this little boy the abduction is a very striking feature inhis position, while seen in a profile view, the flexion hasbecome a very marked characteristic.

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