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Preface To Seventh Edition
Since the last edition appeared research in pediatrics has enriched our knowledge regarding the cause of the deficiency diseases, such as scurvy and rickets. It has been experimentally proven that these diseases are' caused by a lack of vitamines in the food. In the chapters on nutrition,- therefore, an article on Vitamines has been added.
The value of blood transfusion as a therapeutic measure is described and illustrated by clinical cases.
D'Espine's sign has been described. Its importance as an aid in the detection of tuberculosis in its earliest stage, before the lung-tissue is destroyed, has been established. Tuberculides, a skin manifestation of tuberculosis in many young children, has been illustrated; so also the Schick reaction, which is of great value in showing the susceptibility to diphtheria, especially in crowded institutions.
Vaccine therapy has been revised with especial reference to dosage. Likewise the dosage of diphtheria antitoxin has been modified according to our latest views at the City Hospital for Diphtheria.
The recent epidemic of poliomyelitis (summer of 1916) in New York City and State has given a vast opportunity for the study of the preparalytic stage, and to judge of the results of the serum treatment.
Other additions to the present volume are: The complement deviation test in suspicious cases of pertussis. The use of adrenaline in serum rashes. The use of thromboplastine in the chapter on haemorrhages. The treatment of dropsy and suppression of urine in nephritis, with especial reference to the diet and the stimulation of the kidneys, and a new article on Erb's Palsy.
Minor corrections have been made. Early statistics and useless cuts have been discarded to give space for more important clinical data.
The aim of the book has been to present, in a concise manner, practical points in the diagnosis and treatment of infantile diseases, for the benefit of the teacher as well as the general practitioner.
Louis Fischer.
155 West Eiglity-fiftli Street, New York City.
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