Edinburgh Medical Journal, Vol. 26

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Excerpt from Edinburgh Medical Journal, Vol. 26: With Which Is Incorporated the Scottish Medical and Surgical Journal, January to June 1921One child (n 0. 96) was found on admission to hospital to be suffering from acute haemorrhagic nephritis which was rapidly fatal. Another (no. 27) died from broncho-pneumonia ten days after admission to hospital.The complication most to be feared is acute infective diarrhoea. When this occurs, as it is apt to do in a hospital ward during summer or autumn, the risk is very great, for children with pyloric hypertrophy seem to be peculiarly liable to suffer seriously from this form of infection. Three of the hospital cases (nos. 54, 56, and 62) died from it while they were improving rapidly under medical treatment, one (no. Also treated medically, died two months after all his pyloric symptoms had ceased, and a third (no. A month after a successful gastro-enterostomy.In one case (no. 47) the patient, who ultimately did well, suffered for about three years after gastro-enterostomy from recurrent attacks of vomiting.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.