Modern diagnosis and treatment of diseases of childern; a treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of infancy anf childhood . nal, in children (male and female) up to tenyears; in the male, in older ones. Thoracic, in girls over ten years old. Regularity of respiratory rhythm is usually not fully estab-lished before the age of two years. Abnormalities of respiration— Increased frequency, in respiratory and circulatory diseases(see dyspnea) ; pyrexia; emotional excitement; com-pression of the lungs by an accumulation of gas, fluids,or solid masses. EXAMINATION OF THE PATIENT. Diminished fr
Modern diagnosis and treatment of diseases of childern; a treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of infancy anf childhood . nal, in children (male and female) up to tenyears; in the male, in older ones. Thoracic, in girls over ten years old. Regularity of respiratory rhythm is usually not fully estab-lished before the age of two years. Abnormalities of respiration— Increased frequency, in respiratory and circulatory diseases(see dyspnea) ; pyrexia; emotional excitement; com-pression of the lungs by an accumulation of gas, fluids,or solid masses. EXAMINATION OF THE PATIENT. Diminished frequency, in grave central disease; extremeweakness; poisoning from belladonna, opium, etc. Costal breathing in boys over ten years old, and increasedcostal breathing in girls, in inflammatory diseases ofthe abdominal and pleural cavities (by interferencewith the action of the diaphragm) , peritonitis,pleuritis; in abdominal distension by gases, fluids, orsolid masses; in paralysis of the diaphragm, , bulbarparalysis, polioencephalitis, neuritis (postdiphtheritic)of the phrenic nerve; in drug poisoning; in Fig. 9.—Posterior Boundaries of Lungs. {Sheffield. I Purely abdominal breathing, especially in girls over tenyears old, in emphysema; scleroderma; paralysis ofrespiratory muscles, , bulbar paralysis. Irregular breathing, in conditions associated with difficultbreathing; in cerebrospinal affections; in atelectasis;painful diseases of the respiratory muscles ; in hysteria. Stertorous breathing, in nasopharyngeal obstruction, ,retropharyngeal abscess, adenoids; in uremic or apo-plectic coma. Cheyne-Stokes breathing, occasionally in infants duringsleep; in heart failure from divers causes; in menin-gitis, especially the tuberculous variety; in meningealhemorrhage, tumors or abscess exerting pressure uponthe brain; in drug poisoning, , opium; in death-ag( my. THE LUNGS. 25 Difficult or labored breathing (dyspnea), in laryngeal,tracheal or bronchia
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