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... Brain and Nervous System . General Remarks upon them , and on their Symptoms in early Life IV . Congestion of the Brain : its Causes , Symptoms , and Treatment . V. Cerebral Hæmorrhage , and Cephalhæmatoma , or Hæmorrhage external to ...
... Brain and Nervous System . General Remarks upon them , and on their Symptoms in early Life IV . Congestion of the Brain : its Causes , Symptoms , and Treatment . V. Cerebral Hæmorrhage , and Cephalhæmatoma , or Hæmorrhage external to ...
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... brain of the child renders the organ liable to have disease set up in it by causes which would produce little or no injurious effect on the brain of the adult . In the second place , the brain in infancy is much more exposed to disorder ...
... brain of the child renders the organ liable to have disease set up in it by causes which would produce little or no injurious effect on the brain of the adult . In the second place , the brain in infancy is much more exposed to disorder ...
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... brain becomes congested , and convulsions often announce the severity of the consequent disturbance of its functions . The same causes , too , which expose the brain to be overfilled with blood , render it possible for it to be drained ...
... brain becomes congested , and convulsions often announce the severity of the consequent disturbance of its functions . The same causes , too , which expose the brain to be overfilled with blood , render it possible for it to be drained ...
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... brain ; but is the skin hot ? -is there heat of head ? -are there frequent flushings of the face , and does the accession of each flush seem connected with an increase of agitation and distress , or fol- lowed by a deepening of the ...
... brain ; but is the skin hot ? -is there heat of head ? -are there frequent flushings of the face , and does the accession of each flush seem connected with an increase of agitation and distress , or fol- lowed by a deepening of the ...
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... brain , as the occurrence of causeless vomiting , and especially its continuance . At first , perhaps , the child vomits only when it has taken food ; but before long the stomach will reject even the blandest fluid , and then the ...
... brain , as the occurrence of causeless vomiting , and especially its continuance . At first , perhaps , the child vomits only when it has taken food ; but before long the stomach will reject even the blandest fluid , and then the ...
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abdomen adult affection appearance arachnoid attack attended auscultation become blood bowels brain breathing bronchi bronchial bronchitis calomel catarrh cause cerebral character chest child childhood chorea coma condition congestion considerable constipated continued convulsions cord cough course croup death degree dentition depletion deposit diarrhoea diphtheria disease disorder disturbance doses drowsiness dura mater dyspnoea early effusion epilepsy excited existed extreme false membrane fatal fever fluid frequent glands glottis hæmorrhage head hooping-cough hydrocephalus increase infant inflammation instances intestines irritation larynx less lungs measles mischief months morbid mucous mucous membrane nature nervous system notice observed occasionally occur organs pain paroxysms patient peculiar phthisis pia mater pleurisy pneumonia present pulse quantity remedies respiration result scarlatina scarlet fever seems seldom severe side skin slight softening sometimes spinal stage stomach substance suffering supervene surface symptoms takes place tion tracheotomy treatment tubercle tubercular ulceration urine usually ventricles vomiting weeks
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