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Title: Pediatrics.
Year: 1900 (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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ith craniotabes, men-tioned above, the spleen extended much below the navel andnearly to the pelvic brim. Fig. 3 is a diagram of the abdo-men of an Italian baby of 7 months, from the tenement dis-tricts. The bony symptoms of rachitis were unmistakable,and the spleen was monstrous, dipping well down into thepelvis. It should not, of course, be assumed that so large a spleenas this is due only to rickets until syphilis has been reasonablyset aside and a careful blood examination has excluded leukemiaand malaria, and has established the existence of a simple second-ary anemia. This child had a slight leukocytosis with differ-ential predominance of lymphocytes. Myelocytes were absent.Normoblasts were present but very rare—two or three to acover. Megaloblasts were absent. The red cells showed thefamiliar distortions of shape and anomalies of size found inadvanced secondary anemia. A careless observer would haveinsisted upon calling the case one of Von Jakschs disease. The PEDIATRICS. 489
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Fig. II. 49° PEDIATRICS. writer has heard of one such case (of rickets) in this city thatwas pronounced by an experienced specialist sarcoma of thespleen. If there be any doubt of the diagnosis, the rapidimprovement of the patient upon cod liver oil and syrup of

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