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... body while it is so frail ; but they alone would scarcely be adequate reasons for my bringing these diseases under your notice as objects for special study . The body , however , is not only more frail in infancy than it becomes in ...
... body while it is so frail ; but they alone would scarcely be adequate reasons for my bringing these diseases under your notice as objects for special study . The body , however , is not only more frail in infancy than it becomes in ...
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... body is complete , and its functions are the same to - day as they were yesterday : but the child learns successively to breathe , to feel , to think ; and its body is daily undergoing modifications to fit it for new duties , as well as ...
... body is complete , and its functions are the same to - day as they were yesterday : but the child learns successively to breathe , to feel , to think ; and its body is daily undergoing modifications to fit it for new duties , as well as ...
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... body , with the exception of the pregnant womb , which undergoes such rapid development as the brain in early childhood . It doubles its weight during the first two years of life , and reaches nearly , if not quite , its maximum by the ...
... body , with the exception of the pregnant womb , which undergoes such rapid development as the brain in early childhood . It doubles its weight during the first two years of life , and reaches nearly , if not quite , its maximum by the ...
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... body is stiff , immovable , and then in a short time , in a state of twitching motion , the head and neck are drawn backwards , and the limbs violently flexed and extended . Sometimes these movements are confined to certain muscles , or ...
... body is stiff , immovable , and then in a short time , in a state of twitching motion , the head and neck are drawn backwards , and the limbs violently flexed and extended . Sometimes these movements are confined to certain muscles , or ...
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... body are quite healthy . Some years ago I was requested to be present at the examination of the body of a boy not quite two years old , who had been in perfect health until the day before his death , which took place in such ...
... body are quite healthy . Some years ago I was requested to be present at the examination of the body of a boy not quite two years old , who had been in perfect health until the day before his death , which took place in such ...
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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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