File:An American text-book of the diseases of children. Including special chapters on essential surgical subjects; orthopaedics, diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat; diseases of the skin; and on the (14778588852).jpg

Identifier: americantextbook1900star (find matches)
Title: An American text-book of the diseases of children. Including special chapters on essential surgical subjects; orthopaedics, diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat; diseases of the skin; and on the diet, hygiene, and general management of children
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Starr, Louis, 1849-1925 Westcott, Thompson S. (Thompson Seiser), 1862-1933
Subjects: Children Pediatrics Disease
Publisher: Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
na should be made withgreen soap and creolin, the mixture containing 2 per cent, of the creolin:following this, creolin douches, four times in twenty-four hours for the tendays preceding labor, will be found of advantage. Should the mucousmembrane not tolerate such frequent douches, the vagina may be tamponedwith iodoform gauze containing 50 per cent, of iodoform, and the number ofdouches be reduced one-half. In all hospital cases a preliminary douche ofgreen soap and creolin may be used to advantage; in private practice a pre-liminary douche of bichloride, 1 : 5000, may also be employed to the advantageof mother and child. Aside from ophthalmia, gonorrhoea may infect the infant at birth uponother mucous membranes. Rosinski describes the residts of interesting inves-tigations made by him upon gonorrhoea occurring in the mouths of new-borninft\nts. The lesions caused by this germ in the mouth develop only wherethe pavement epithelium has been removed. These cells are especially fragile
Text Appearing After Image:
Gonorrhoea of the Mouth in the Newborn (RoslnsKi). INJURIES AND DISEASES OF THE NEW-BOBN 89 in the young child, and hence the readiness with which infection occurs. It isinteresting to note that in gonorrhoea! ophthalmia it is very rare to find thatthe lachrymal sacs become involved; it is also true that the cylindrical epi-thelium of the naso-pharynx seems also to resist successfully invasion by thegonococcus. Clinical observation shows that these cases develop usuallybetween the fifth and tenth day of life, resulting often from infection fromthe genital canal occurring at birth, and oftentimes through direct infectionat the hands of attendants. This is especially true where the epitheliumof the mouth is destroyed through efforts at cleansing. These cases areremarkable for the fact that they affect the general health so little; thechildren nursing well and seeming free from pain. The lesions are yellowishplaques, surrounded by a border of pale-reddish tissue, in which the processof h

Note About Images