Identifier: diseasesofchildr00grah (find matches)
Title: Diseases of children
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Graham, Edwin Eldon, b. 1864
Subjects: Children Disease
Publisher: Philadelphia and New York, Lea & Febiger
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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tent). Male, colored, aged thirty-six years. Hemiplegia, epilepsy, aphasia. Death from cerebral softening. Middleor superior lobe abnormally large; lateral lobes about normal for childhood, extendedfrom above suprasternal notch to diaphragm. Weight of thymus 7.82 grams. Noevidence of pressure. Were the superior lobe large, or greatly thickened antero-posteriorly, pressure on trachea would be possible. (Coplin.) Physiology.—The function of the thymus is not yet understood,and we are still in doubt as to whether it should be classed as one of theductless glands or with the other lymphoid structures of the body. 502 DISEASES OF THE DUCTLESS GLANDS It is thought to be connected with the lymph system and the thyroidand parathyroid glands. That there is a relation between the thymusand testes is shown by the delayed involution of the thymus followingcastration, and the rapid growth of the testes in thymectomized anim.als.Extirpation of the thymus is also followed by softening of the bones
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Fig. 41 Fig. 42 Fig. 41.—Trilobar cervicothoracic thymus. Male, white, aged thirteen years.Splenic anemia, greatly enlarged spleen weighing 1100 grams. Splenectomy; recovery.Two years later admitted to hospital in convulsions, probably unconscious, face flushed,dyspnea, respirations 40, slight cyanosis, rapid heart (100). Temperature 104°; extremi-ties cold. History of dog bite. Clinical diagnosis: Status lymphaticus. Postmortem:Status lymphaticus; congestion of lungs; adhesive pleuritis; congestion of liver andkidneys; hyperplasia of lymphoid tissue of intestine, colon and stomach; enlargedlymph nodes; chronic adhesive peritonitis in splenic area; adhesions probably due tosplenectomy. Organ of quite unusual shape, resting upon and overlapping heart andextending upward behind sternum just above notch. Weight of thymus 2.3.61 grams.Such an organ might press upon trachea in critical space or beneath sternum. There issufficient evidence to justify the recognition of lobes; otherwise i

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