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... fit of crying , you may ascertain how far the lungs are permeable to air , and whether the bronchi are much loaded with mucus . Independently of auscultation , too , much may be learned from the cry . If its two periods be clearly ...
... fit of crying , you may ascertain how far the lungs are permeable to air , and whether the bronchi are much loaded with mucus . Independently of auscultation , too , much may be learned from the cry . If its two periods be clearly ...
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... fit himself to decide with some approach to certainty on the means most likely to effect its cure . Such instruction has been amply afforded you in the wards of the hospital ; but you must allow me to detain you while I point out the ...
... fit himself to decide with some approach to certainty on the means most likely to effect its cure . Such instruction has been amply afforded you in the wards of the hospital ; but you must allow me to detain you while I point out the ...
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... fit of con- vulsions . It may be well to pause here for a moment , and briefly to pass in review the symptoms by which disease of the nervous centres , and especially of the brain , manifests itself in infancy and early childhood . The ...
... fit of con- vulsions . It may be well to pause here for a moment , and briefly to pass in review the symptoms by which disease of the nervous centres , and especially of the brain , manifests itself in infancy and early childhood . The ...
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... fits come on in an advanced stage of some serious disease , they are probably only the indications that death is busy at the centres of vitality ; if they occur during hooping - cough , they point to a congested state of the brain , the ...
... fits come on in an advanced stage of some serious disease , they are probably only the indications that death is busy at the centres of vitality ; if they occur during hooping - cough , they point to a congested state of the brain , the ...
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... fit of con- vulsions . These convulsions are seldom at first very severe , but you will learn to dread them more than those which assume a inore formidable appearance , from noticing either that one side of the body is exclusively ...
... fit of con- vulsions . These convulsions are seldom at first very severe , but you will learn to dread them more than those which assume a inore formidable appearance , from noticing either that one side of the body is exclusively ...
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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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