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New-England Journal of Medicine and Surgery, and Collateral Branches of Science (v. 1)
NewEngland Journal of Medicine and Surgery and Collateral Branches of Science - v. 1 Author:Walter Channing Volume: v. 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1812 Original Publisher: T.B. Wait and Co. Subjects: Medicine Surgery Medical / General Medical / History Medical / Surgery / General Medical / Surgery / Neurosurgery Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustratio... more »ns and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CASE AND DISSECTION OF A BLUE FEMALE CHILD: In a Letter from John S. Dorsey, M. D. Adjunct Professor of Surgery in the University of Pennsylvania. S. R. when born, was for a considerable time supposed to be dead -- did not cry, or evince any living actions. The lungs were artificially inflated for several minutes, and life at length appeared, but very feebly . -- A livid countenance, with frequent syncope took place -- With great maternal care the infant was kept alive, and as she grew became remarkably sprightly and af live -- When two years old was unusually intelligent and fond of exercise. -- As she advanced in age, her fondness for violent exercise in playing often exposed her to danger, as these efforts never failed to produce syncope and a kind of convulsion. Laughing, crying, or any emotion of mind, also brought on the syncope, from which, after falling into a horizontal position, she generally soon recovered. Her countenance, at all times blueish and livid, was in these fits extremely so. Her nails were always of the colour of litmus, or perhaps a little nearer to violet. She had the usual diseases of children, the vaccine -- chicken pox -- scarlatina -- whooping cough -- measles -- from all which she recovered as'rapidly as is usual. -- The peculiarities of those children in whom the foramen ovale of the heart remains open, all appeared in this little girl, and need not be more minutely described. After death th...« less