Identifier: pediatrics1319unse (find matches)
Title: Pediatrics.
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Subjects: Pediatrics Children Infants Pediatrics Disease Disease
Publisher: New York : Van Publishing
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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at no carbolic acid was used. The child should always be lifted with both hands, held lightly butfirmly, the entire length of the back and the head being carefully sup-ported. One of the most common and dangerous errors is leaving theback or the headunsupported. When this is done the movements of thebody of the mother or nurse in walking, or indeed, the sudden lurchingof the baby itself, may seriously affect the head and spine.—HealthCulture. IMPACTED CALCULUS IN THE URETHRA IN CHILDREN. John H. Jopson (Am. Jour. Med. Sci., January, 1901) says: Vesicalcalculus in children, although infrequent in this country, is not of suchrarity as to occasion comment when encountered. The accident of im-paction in the urethra is a sequel of more unusual occurrence, and hav-ing met with two such cases within a few months at the Childrens Hos-pital has led him to make a report of them, with some remarks upon thediagnosis and treatment. Holmes, in his Surgical Treatment of the Diseases of Infancy and
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Improper method ofcarrying a child. Proper method ofcarrying a child. CARRYING THE BABY. 356 PEDIATRICS Childhood, published many years ago, says that when summoned to acase of retention in a child we can almost always assume it to be due toimpacted calculus. It may, when overlooked, easily lead to perinealabscess as well as to extravasation. Even the passage of the cathetermay not detect its presence. The removal of an impacted calculus in children is, from the smallsize of the urethra, more difficult than in adults. If situated near themeatus, or anywhere in the penile urethra, it can sometimes be seizedwith fine forceps after a preliminary meatotomy and removed. In thedeep urethra attempts have been made to push it backward into the blad-der, where it can be treated by litholapaxy. Failing theseattempts, theurethra must be promptly opened. When the urethra is already rupturedno time should be lost, and urethrotomy and drainage of the infiltratedtissues at once proceeded with. Judgi

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