Pneumonia neonatorum

REVIEWS

low the

abnormally microscope

deep, in all

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ABSTRACTS

zone of provisional but the earliest and

calcification. Fibrosis slightest lessons.

Syphilitic diaphysis. and later

diaphysitis The fibrosis with erosion

Syphilitic It results cleposited

periostitis is rare, but may accompa.ny in a layer of bone and red marrow or rarely outside the original corticalis.

Congenital

Lindig:

disease

of

the

local prescncc of of bone affected.

Glycosuria

seen

occurs with considerable frequency in the medulla is associated first with cessation of the deposit of the trabeculae of bone and calcified cartilage.

syphilitic

but is due to the fewer the portions sites of election.

is

bone

is not

advanced granulation

a general

the

systemic

the spirochetes. The older The femur, tibia, humerus,

NeWborn.

Klinische

of the of bone

osteochondritis. tissue being

NORIXAN

in

with

Wochenschrift,

condition,

the child the and ribs are F. MILLER. 1922,

i,

995.

The author repeated the work of Hoeniger upon the excretion of sugar in the urine of newborn children delivered by forceps. The latter found a “temporary traumatic” glyeosuria in each of four children thus delivered, the sugar excretion lasting only two to four days. He considers this to be due to the sudden application of force to the head, analogous to puncture glycosuria. Sugar is not found in the urine of spontaneously delivered children, even though the labor be tedious and the compression of the head prolonged. Lindig, however, does not think that the question can be settled so simply, as the causes of glycosuria are legion and the mechanism often complicated. He notes that Kausch has reported that other traumatisms, even when not acting on the skull, can produce glycosuria; so can anesthesia, anoxemia, etc. He found sugar persisting in the urine for seven days of only three out ob twenty-four male children delivered by forceps, and hence concludes t,hat the question is still an open one. A further report based ou a more exhaustive study, is promised. E. L. Kr~ri. Hartmann, rique,

Henri: Pyloric 1922, v, 307.

Stenosis

in

the

Nnrsling.

Gynecologie

et

Obstet-

The author emphasizes the importance of distinguishing between a true hypertrophic muscular stenosis and a pyloric spasm. Operative procedure in the two cases is entirely different. The submucous pylorotomy is easy and meets all indications for the pyloric spasm. In cases of hypertrophic stenosis the operation is more serious. It should be done as early as possible and consists preferably in a gastroenterostomy. F. L. ADNR. Browne, 1922,

Pneumonia F. J.: No. 3195, p. 469.

The author quotes were due to pneumonia. varied from 8 hours the infants, especially It is probable that A child may monia. monia in an advanced mortem examinations the lungs is not made.

Neon&or-urn.

British

Medical

Journal,

March

25,

80 cases of infantile deaths in which 21 or 26.25 per cent Over half of these were in premature infants. Ages to 5 weeks. Five of the infants were syphilitic. Some of the premature ones, had atelectatie areas in the lungs. premature rupture of the membranes predisposes to pneube born not only infected but even sufl’ering from pneustage. The infant has little defensive reaction. At postthe disease may be missed if microscopic examination of F. L.

ADAII;.