. The diseases of infancy and childhood . nis enlarged, owing to the presence of rachitis. Slight subcutaneoushemorrhages may extend into the muscular tissue. There are hemor-rhages into the mucous membrane of the hard palate and gums. Symptoms.—Mild cases sometimes escape notice. An anaemicinfant may cry when bathed or may favor one extremity. It mayhold one thigh rigid or cry when the limb is handled in the processof diapering. Mothers at first suspect traumatism. The infantdevelops slight ecchymoses on the tibiae, and is then brought to thephysician. If there are teeth, there may at this st
. The diseases of infancy and childhood . nis enlarged, owing to the presence of rachitis. Slight subcutaneoushemorrhages may extend into the muscular tissue. There are hemor-rhages into the mucous membrane of the hard palate and gums. Symptoms.—Mild cases sometimes escape notice. An anaemicinfant may cry when bathed or may favor one extremity. It mayhold one thigh rigid or cry when the limb is handled in the processof diapering. Mothers at first suspect traumatism. The infantdevelops slight ecchymoses on the tibiae, and is then brought to thephysician. If there are teeth, there may at this stage be no swellingof the gums or of the extremities. Along the border of the gumsthere is a very thin blue line. There is no fever; there may not beany anaemia. In some of my very early cases, in addition to tender-ness of the bones, there was hematuria. In the severer cases thesymptoms are more marked. The skin in the infant of from sevento nine months of age acquires a pallid or greenish tinge. The infantcries when touched. PLATE XII. X-ray of the Bones of the Leg in a Case of Scorbutus, showing the hemorrhage under and in the periosteum ofthe tibia at the junction of the middle and lower third ofthe bone. ■d 2 0 3 J* CD JO 0 cQ (D 2 po CD 3 m (7)o 2D 5 cT M r+ 0 3 in CD 0 CO 5 o 0 en CD P- 3 CD 3 3 c S> a CQ o 3 0 CD JD 3 (D 0 0 < CD e-t-3 CD ctT (DPi 1 en o 3 0 5 50cQCDP- O0Ifi S3 CD cr 0 CDCD CD CD 3 CQ en-CD a1 C/5 ^ 0 CD0 o5 0 5 en 2_ w ff en- 3 N CD 3 CD CQ C9. «< H 2 Pi 3 3 CD cq3d g ff CD ft- J^ en- o ^ CtT ps F 3 fi ev- 3 0 3 en en-s CD CD Q •-•j *• i—• T en-s cd t JO fD 3Pi CDCDe-t- b_J 3 3 W CD3 CQ1 a CD 3 < CD CD CD cT ^ << CD CQ CD M. CD en 3 15 s cQ E < w 0 O 0 5 0 oo 3 0
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