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A Synopsis of Children's Diseases, Fourth Edition serves as a guide to the common as well as rare diseases in children. This book discusses the importance of hereditarily determined diseases. Organized into two parts encompassing 196 chapters, this edition begins with an overview of the norms of development of children. This text then discusses the various types of congenital malformations if mother contracts rubella during pregnancy, including deafness, congenital heart disease, eye defects, and other lesions. Other chapters consider the incidence of infant mortality during the first twelve m.
Front Cover; A Synopsis of Children's Diseases; Copyright Page; PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION; PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; Table of Contens; PART I: THE HEALTHY CHILD; CHAPTER 1. DEVELOPMENT; IMPORTANCE OF DEVELOPMENTAL ASSESSMENT; CHAPTER 2. PHYSICAL GROWTH; INTRODUCTION; WEIGHT; FONTANELLES; TEETH; CHAPTER 3. INFANT FEEDING; INTRODUCTION; BREAST FEEDING; ANTENATAL PREPARATION FOR BREAST FEEDING; REQUIREMENTS OF NURSING MOTHER; THE ACT OF BREAST FEEDING; MANAGEMENT OF FEED; FAILURE OF LACTATION; ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; FOOD SUPPLEMENTS; WEANING; METHOD.
Chapter 4. management of the normal newborn babyimmediate management; later management; medical examination; multiple births; chapter 5. management of the normal child; the infant; the young child; chapter 6. excretion; micturition; defecation; part ii: the sick child; section i: general factors; chapter 7. examination of child; chapter 8. aetiology of congenital defects; heredity; infections; maternal rubella; radiation hazards; endocrine disturbances; maternal age and multiparity; nutritional disturbances; mechanical injuries leading to deformities; drugs; section ii: the neonatal period.
Chapter 9. infant mortality and morbiditycauses of perinatal mortality and morbidity; neonatal mortality; infant mortality; stillbirths; chapter 10. extracranial birth injuries; fractures; nerve injuries; visceral injuries; vertebral injuries; spinal cord injuries; sternomastoid hæmatoma; injuries during instrumentation; chapter 11. cranial and intracranial hæmorrhage; cephalhæmatoma; intracranial hæmorrhage; subarachnoid hæmorrhage; chapter 12. respiratory disorders; hypoxia; intra-uterine hypoxia; neonatal hypoxia; cyanotic attacks; pneumonia; pulmonary hæmorrhage.
Neonatal interstitial emphysema, pneumomediastinum, and pneumothoraxother causes of respiratory difficulty in neonatal period; chapter 13. neonatal infections; epidemic staphylococcal infections in nurseries; lung infections; septicæmia; eye infections; gastro-enteritis; skin sepsis; breast abscess; chapter 14. other abnormalities of neonatal period; neonatal hypoglycæmia; hypocalcæmia; neonatal cold injury; chapter 15. the premature baby; comparison between mature and premature infants; physiological handicaps of premature babies; diseases in premature infants; prognosis.
Management of premature babiestemperature; prevention of infection; oxygen therapy; drug therapy; feeding; psychological care; chapter 16. postmaturity; placental insufficiency syndrome; section iii: the infectious diseases-viral; chapter 17. control of common fevers; chapter 18. measles; chapter 19. german measles; chapter 20. roseola infantum; chapter 21. chicken-pox; herpes zoster; chapter 22. vaccinia and vaccination; small-pox; chapter 23. mumps; chapter 24. infectious mononucleosis; chapter 25. herpes simplex infections; section iv: the infectious diseases-bacterial and protozoal.
Chapter 26. hæmolytic streptococcal infections.