Diseases of children, for nurses, including infant feeding, therapeutic measures employed in childhood, treatment for emergencies, prophylaxis, hygiene, and nursing . Fin. 78. -The trident hands in achondroplasia (Fussell, McCombs, Pancoast).. Fig. 79.—Achondroplasia. Side view of boy. Curvature of spine, shortness ofthe extremities, and curvature of bones shown (Fussell, McCombs, deSchweinitz, andPancoast). DISEASES OF THE BONES AND MUSCLES 2/5 Myositis Ossificans.—A rare condition, in whichlocalized inflammations of the muscles form permanentnodules, which later turn to act
Diseases of children, for nurses, including infant feeding, therapeutic measures employed in childhood, treatment for emergencies, prophylaxis, hygiene, and nursing . Fin. 78. -The trident hands in achondroplasia (Fussell, McCombs, Pancoast).. Fig. 79.—Achondroplasia. Side view of boy. Curvature of spine, shortness ofthe extremities, and curvature of bones shown (Fussell, McCombs, deSchweinitz, andPancoast). DISEASES OF THE BONES AND MUSCLES 2/5 Myositis Ossificans.—A rare condition, in whichlocalized inflammations of the muscles form permanentnodules, which later turn to actual bone, and these, inturn, are attached to the skeleton. Its course is very prolonged. At first there are no sub-jective symptoms produced by the bony masses; but theirincrease in number and size, their attachment to theskeleton, and the accompanying fibrous myositis, resultin an advancing interference with muscular activity, untilthe joints become stiff and the patient rigid and helpless.
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