Transactions of the American Pediatric Society, Volume 21

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American Pediatric Society., 1910
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Page 126 - Infant's Weight Chart. Designed by JP CROZER GRIFFITH, MD , Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the University of Pennsylvania, etc.
Page 166 - An act to regulate the treatment and control of dependent, neglected, and delinquent children...
Page 25 - ... for practical use for the safeguarding of early life. The most Important part of the skeleton for use as an Index lies in the Joints. The carpal bones and the lower epiphyses of the radius and ulna represent the other Joints to such a degree in so many Instances, and so much more in evidence, and are so readily interpreted by the Roentgen Method, that they can be practically used as an Index of development representing the entire bony framework.
Page 84 - Office of Seed and Plant Introduction of the United States Department of Agriculture in March, 1908.
Page 24 - ... the fitness for school and for work of the early years of life. The former means for this purpose are Inadequate, whether by height, weight, teeth, statements of parents or guardians or birth certificates Weight and height have long been known to be very inadequate for determining chronologic age.... The skeleton represents an Illustrative steel framework of development on which the body Is built, and this development when determined, presents the best source from which to evolve an anatomic...
Page 73 - ... childhood. By John Lovett Morse. AM, MD., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Associate Visiting Physician at the Infants' Hospital and at the Children's Hospital, Boston.
Page 125 - Non-parasitic cysts of the liver have their origin in these aberrant ducts, and may assume two forms: one, arising from inflammatory hyperplasia of these ducts; the other, by retention of fluid in these ducts, as the result of congenital obstruction.
Page 149 - The results obtained by the different workers were in essentials alike. All of us found pneumococci to be present during the winter months in the throat secretions of a large percentage of healthy individuals in both the city and the country. The country cases were selected from farms, small hamlets and from villages in the mountains. In the research laboratory we found that pneumococci were slightly more virulent for rabbits and mice when taken from cases of pneumonia than...
Page 82 - In the chronic diseases there is no relation between the albuminuria and the mortality or symptomatology. The mortality is higher in the acute diseases when albuminuria is present than when it is not. The presence of albuminuria in an individual case does not, however, materially modify the prognosis in that case. Edema occurring in the course of diseases of the gastroenteric tract is not connected with the condition of the kidneys. There is nothing to suggest any causative relation between the affection...
Page 84 - Maryland, said that the soy bean (Glycine hispida), sometimes incorrectly called the soja bean, is an annual leguminous plant which originally grew in a wild state from Cochin China to the south of Japan and to Java.

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