Annals of Gynecology and Pediatry (Volume 13) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: doubled the amount with no bad symptoms noticeable. My first attempt was to give a one-grain suppository four times a day. After finding the plasmodia I gave five-grain suppositories twice a day for one day with no effect. Bisulphate was not retained and I tried the quinin chocolates, one grain every two hours. This the baby soon refused to swallow and I gave of the plain sulphate one grain in fluid extract of glycyrrhiza every two hours. For two days the child had twelve grains each day, then eight grains a day and finally three grains for a few weeks, the decrease being made as the temperature became normal, which had been prompt. One uncertainty is whether the suppository and chocolates had so much effect that the quinin, as last given, had an effect sooner than if they had not been given. This is quite probable, but in another case I should choose to use the latter method and expect to see a correspondingly prompt result. The child made but little objection to this method and at no time was there any evidence of any symptoms of cinchonism. "There never were any paroxysms nor any sweating stage. The child became very cold, but only when the temperature was the lowest. The greatest drop was on the 27th, when it fell eight degrees. Today it is perfectly well, with no evidence remaining of its experience."?(Cleveland Journal of Medicine, July, 1899.) INFANTILE MENSTRUATION. Dr. G. A. McBride reports the following unusual case: "Mrs. M., aged 34, nationality half Indian and half white, is the mother of four children?two boys and two girls. The last is a healtlly, well developed girl, who was born April 27 last. When only two days old she began menstruating, the flow being very free for two days, then gradually disappearing. There was no possibility of the flow being due to...