. Diseases of children. Fig. 47.—Clubbing of toes in chronic heart disease. child grows older it is not uncommon. It follows pleuro-pneumonia, rheumatism, the acute infectious diseases,pyemia, tuberculosis, and local causes. 178 DISEASES OF CHILDREN FOR NURSES Pathology.—-The same conditions exist in pericarditisas in inflammations of a serous membrane in any otherpart of the body. At first the surfaces are red and sticky;they rub together and cause a great deal of pain. In aday or two an effusion appears, which may be serous,serofibrinous, fibrinous, or purulent. In the serofibrinous jorm the


. Diseases of children. Fig. 47.—Clubbing of toes in chronic heart disease. child grows older it is not uncommon. It follows pleuro-pneumonia, rheumatism, the acute infectious diseases,pyemia, tuberculosis, and local causes. 178 DISEASES OF CHILDREN FOR NURSES Pathology.—-The same conditions exist in pericarditisas in inflammations of a serous membrane in any otherpart of the body. At first the surfaces are red and sticky;they rub together and cause a great deal of pain. In aday or two an effusion appears, which may be serous,serofibrinous, fibrinous, or purulent. In the serofibrinous jorm there is little lymph and agreat deal of serum, which, in favorable cases, is absorbed. In the fibrinous jorm, just as in pleurisy, the surfaces


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