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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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inia, havingfive months previously suddenly stopped walking and the ab-domen having progressively become distended. The family history, which was obtained from parents ofintelligence and refinement, and from the family physician, wasabsolutely negative as to syphilis, tuberculosis and cancer.The mother had had no miscarriages, and the other children,three in number, were healthy. An especial effort was madeto obtain some specific history without success. The Condition of the Patient from Birth ; The labor was easy. The question of feeding was trouble-some from the first, as the mother developed puerperal feverand nursing was out of the question. Indigestion sapped thechilds vitality for the first year. Cows milk was used for thefirst six weeks. Mellins and Nestl£s Foods were tried alter-nately for the next three months, then peptonized milk wasgiven a turn for the next four months, followed by equal * Read by title before the American Orthopedic Association at New York, June ad,1899.
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PEDIATRICS 47 parts of oat meal gruel and cows milk for the next six months,with potatoes, rice, gravies and meat. As the child had persistent colic, the attending physicianordered ten drops of whiskey three times a day, and themother found that the whiskey, intrusted to the nurse-maid,rapidly disappeared. After seven months use of whiskey, i.from the time the baby was six weeks old,it was found that thewhiskey had been given in teaspoonful doses three times a day,the nurse-maid supposing the more it got the better it wouldbecome. She was exonerated from the suspicion of tippling,and the whiskey discontinued. The child walked and talkedat one year, and cut its teeth normally. From one year old to one year and nine months the childseemed healthy and well; at the end of which time, it had asudden attack of fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and collapse. Thiswas in August, 1898. The attack was transient, but the childwas not able to stand, walk, or sit up unassisted (Parrots par-alysis) after i

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