Vol. 60, 1909 - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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196 THE CHARLOTTE MEDICAL JOURNAL |
Jobann Holl's Malt with Iron. obscure. Fine, well-nourished children,
(PEPTONATES OF IRON AND MANGANESE) without any previous digestive troubles, are ;
ITS RELATION TO ASSIMILATION
Suddenly seized with appendicitis. Heredity,
lamily predisposition, lymphatism and ar-
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The continued presence of iron and man- thritisra are incriminated in such cases. In ;|
ganese in the blood—the cause of health others there may be adenoids, tonsillitis,
and strength—is due, not so much to the otiti.s media, cervical adenitis, gastroenter- ;
amount ingested, as to the form, the main itis or mucomembranous enterocolitis, i
condition being that enough is absorbed. Among infectious diseases influenza plays i
As to the form, we are told by Fraenkel an important role in the aetiology. Typhoid :
(Arzneimittel-Synthese), thatthepeptonate fever comes next, and then scarlet fever, ,
is to be preferred if we would avoid the un- measles, mumps, varicella and, generally \
pleasant effects of iron. The case is the speaking, all the specific or non-specific in- ;
same with respect to manganese. Both are fections which in the child more than in the i
essential; both in the organic form, follow adult cause an overgrowth of the lymphoid !
scientific precept strictly, and afford the tissue. The symptoms are variable and j
largest amount of their material to the complexr Cyclical or periodic vomiting, ;
blood. with oi without acetonuria, in most cases \
is a symptom of chronic appendicitis. The )
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Undializable Constituents of the Urine
In Pregnant Women in Normal and
prognosis should be guarded. It is impossible
to count on a spontaneous cure. Surj
Pathological Conditions. • gical intervention is required in most cases.
M.Savare has examined the undializable The paper ends with a brief summary of .
residue of the urine, which
cases.-Bntish Journal of
is in consider- 3,°^,;""^y"^^i''^
Children s D'seases.
able quantity in normal and pathological |
conditions in pregnant women, and has in-
Treatment of Syphilis ol the Upper Re- \
jected the residue into animals to ascertain spiratory Tract.
whether it has toxic properties. He finds .^^.. ,. ,.i -r r
Dr. Livien discusses the identification
that there are contained in the urine of
of -
women who af e in a pathological condition ^^^ spirochEeta palhda and the detection of ,
specific antibodies in the serum of people .
while pregnant, especiallv when attacked
bv eclampsia elements that are markedly ^"fected with syphilis. No serum thera- ,
toxic to the experiment animals, causing
Peutic treatment had been found effective. !
them to have stupor and convulsions, and Mercury and iodides remain the chief reme- j
killing
^'^s. two out of ten animals He states that mercury is best ad- |
injected,
mi»istered by injection or inunction, and .
The relation to the causation of eclampsia
of these toxic elements is not as vet cleariv ^^^^ ^^°^>''' ?'''^" defined, but should be further studied, since
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efficient doses, has .
proved experimentally to produce similar i
it may prove a fruitful field of observation.
—Annali di Obstetrica e Ginecologia.
'^"^ '^. dangerous to the optic nerve.
if'^^^l\
^^^ diagnosis should be certain before
treatment is started. Spirochseta shoulb
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Dyspnea Following Nasal
ol Menthol Oil.
Instillation de found, or time given for the serum-test,
^^ ^^^ appearance of the roseola. In most
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A. Delille. in a paper read before the of the cases where inunctions and injections l
Societe de Pediatric in Paris repor'ed the
^^^ employed local treatment is unneces- ,
case ot an infant in whom a nasal instillla- '
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tion of menthol oil, 1 per
^^^^^ Mercurial plaster
cent., was immeshould
be used to J
diately followed by violent spasm of the cover chancres on the lips or face. Noso- ,i
glottis. After fifteen minutes the child re- phen is a good dusting-powder, and ortho- j
covered. Guinon had observed several form may be used in painful cases. Malig- |
similar cases. Marfan had never seen one. „„,.tf„^.,^ f fi,„ ^- „ , i j i * „ 1
n^,^u,r »u nant forms ot the 1 . 1 t ^ disease responded . best to ,\
Lomby thought 1 per cent, was too strong. ... ^ , , , . . i]
He used menthol oil 1-300.—The British '"Jections of calomel. When inunctions are \{
Journal of Children's Diseases. used baths of soap and sulphur may be use- «
fully added. The iodides are most useful I
Chronic Appendicitis in Children. in the tertiary lesions, but act well in vege- [*j
Comby (Bull, et mem. de la Soc. med. tating secondary patches in the nose or !i
desHop. de Paris). Appendicitis is very ,'
throat. lodism may be removed bv daily
rare m infancy, but becomes more and j •
i ^ ^- c ic r i 'i. -i- I
,•,,,,,-» fr^^„^„t „ «i 1 u ij J administration of 15 grains of sulphanilic I
more trequent as the child grows older, and i
is common after five years. It is essentially ^^^^ '" -^ ounces of water. In sensitive cases \
a chronic disease, in which the ^cute form iodipin is a useful substitute.— British Wedi
is only an episode. The aetiology is often cal Journal.
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