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Title: Diseases of children, for nurses, including infant feeding, therapeutic measures employed in childhood, treatment for emergencies, prophylaxis, hygiene, and nursing
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: McCombs, Robert Shelmerdine, 1880-
Subjects: Children Nursing
Publisher: Philadelphia, London : W. B. Saunders company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Tnptoms are restlessnessand slight fever at night, free perspiration about the head,diffuse soreness and tenderness of the body, prominenceof the abdomen, pallor, sHght diarrhea, delayed dentition,and the eruption of badly formed teeth. Skeletal Phenomena.—The head is large and more orless square in outline; careful palpation may detect softareas in the skull. The fontanel closes late. The sidesof the chest are flattened, the sternum is prominent;nodules can be felt at the sternal end of the ribs called CONSTITUTIONAL AND NUTRITIONAL DISEASES 373
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Fig. iio.—Rachitic boy of three years. A large and somewhat angular head. Thetypic posture of a rachitic child, with the arms supported at his side. Curvature of theclavicles and the spine causes the neck to appear short. Contraction of the lateral di-ameter of the thorax; abdomen protrudes; curvature of the bones of the forearm(Hecker, Trumpp, and Abt). ^rachitic rosaryP There may be a distinct transveregroove at the level of the ensiform cartilage called ^^Har-rison^ s groove.^^ The spinal column is frequently curvedanteroposteriorly, called kyphosis; or latterly, when it is 374 DISEASES OF CHILDREN FOR NURSES termed scoliosis. The long bones are curved and promi-nent at the extremities. This prominence leads to en-largements at the wrists and ankles. The deformities of the legs may be marked. At timesit is impossible for the child to stand erect and at othersthe whole skeleton is so deformed as to produce rachiticdwarfs. The usual deformities are knock-knees, bow-legs,and anterio

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