Modern diagnosis and treatment of diseases of childern; a treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of infancy anf childhood . Fig. 163. Adipositas (8 months old). Weighs 36 pounds (Sheffield, i ADIPOSITAS(Lipomatosis Universalis. Obesity). Contrary to what is observed in older children or adults,Sp°recovery overfatness in infants very rarely gives rise to constitutionalinfants! disturbances. As a rule, the fatness subsides when the childbegins to walk about. In older children obesity is often associated with markedanemia, shortness of breath and fatty degeneration of the ADIPOSITAS. 511 h
Modern diagnosis and treatment of diseases of childern; a treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of infancy anf childhood . Fig. 163. Adipositas (8 months old). Weighs 36 pounds (Sheffield, i ADIPOSITAS(Lipomatosis Universalis. Obesity). Contrary to what is observed in older children or adults,Sp°recovery overfatness in infants very rarely gives rise to constitutionalinfants! disturbances. As a rule, the fatness subsides when the childbegins to walk about. In older children obesity is often associated with markedanemia, shortness of breath and fatty degeneration of the ADIPOSITAS. 511 heart. If such symptoms appear, it is essential to eliminate Diet,fats and carbohydrates from the dietary and to recommendsystematic exercise, active massage and hydropathic pro-cedures. Carlsbad salts and thyroid gland substance are Fig. 164.—Adipositas. Same case as Fig. 163, back view.(Sheffield.) often useful; some cases, however, resist all sorts of treatment,and readily succumb to intercurrent diseases. Adipositas should not be mistaken for cretinism (q. v.). CHAPTER of the Nerve System. GENERAL REMARKS ON CEREBRAL OR CENTRALPARALYSIS AND BRAIN LOCALIZATION. A Borbra!n Cerebral Paralysis, so called, is not an independent brain disease. disease, imt merely a symptom occurring in connection with a number of congenital and acquired brain affections. Depending upon the extent of the lesion the paralysis may appear either in the form of hemiplegia, double hemiplegia, or monoplegia. unilateral Hemiplegia is the result of a lesion (disease or trauma) in lesion. one cei-ebrai hemisphere. The paralysis is situated on the side opposite that of the lesion. Motile power may be completely abolished or only partially so (paresis). Sensation may remain intact, but is lost if the brain lesion is in the intern
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