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Identifier: diseasesofinfa00kopl (find matches)
Title: The diseases of infancy and childhood
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Koplik, Henry, 1858- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Children
Publisher: New York and Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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onating sooner than the other. The cause of this curiousphenomenon is as yet unknown. Balantyne suggests that it is dueto a bio-chemical relation between the foetus and the mother, whichexercises its influence on the infant after birth in such a way thaithe same agencies which cause1 a production of milk in the mothercontinue to produce the same result in the infant. The secretion hasbeen examined by Barfurth, llerx, ami others, and has been found tobe composed of proteids, 2.5 to 2.6 pel emit.: fat, 2.3 to 3 per cent.;sugar, 2.5 per cent. It is therefore a real secretion o( milk, and themethod of its secretion is the same as in the adult gland. Theamount of milk which is called DY the laitv witches milk. is small. 172 DISEASES OF THE NEWBORN. The secretion lasts, as a rule, from six to eight weeks; in exceptionalcases it may continue six months (Herz). If mastitis occur, it iscertainly the result either of antepartum or postpartum infection, and not of caking of the breasts. Fro. 20.
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Caking of the milk in both breasts of a newborn infant. Urine.—Speaking of the urine of the newborn in a stricter sense,the amount passed spontaneously after birth is on the average 9.6c.c, of which 7.5 c.c. may be found in the bladder at the time ofbirth, unless the viscus has been subjected to pressure during birth.The urine is passed spontaneously within twenty-four hours afterbirth in 66 per cent, of newborn infants, and in the remaining caseswithin forty-eight hours after birth. Quantity.—The daily quantity of urine during the first two weeksvaries widely according to different observers. On an average theamount varies in breast-fed and bottle-fed infants according to theamount of fluid food ingested. In breast-fed infants the amountduring the first three days increases from 17 c.c. to 43 to 49 c.c, and PHYSIOLOGY OF THE NEWBORN. 173 on the fourth dayamounts to 116 c.c., due to an increase of milk inthe mothers breast. On the fourteenth day the amount has run upto 263 c.c. Ho

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