Identifier: pediatrics2219unse (find matches)
Title: Pediatrics.
Year: 1910 (1910s)
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Subjects: Pediatrics Children Infants Pediatrics Disease Disease
Publisher: New York : Van Publishing
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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Fig. 8.—Showing the adventitial infiltration of cells-immersion lens. Note themononuclear and endothelial -1 ike cells in the intra-adventitial lymph space.
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ig. 10.—Fifth cervicle segment showing infiltration of anterior horn (especiallyprocessus ventralis medialis) and degeneration of ganglion cells. PATHOLOGY OF ACUTE POLIOMYELITIS 475 they have thus introduced the infective agent more or less di-rectly into the blood or lymphatic circulation. It may be objected that the acute inflammation of the in-testinal lymphatic tract is due to the elimination of the virusor its toxine. This does not seem probable to me because itoccurs so early in the disease. In one of my cases death occurredonly three hours after the onset of the paralysis and yet theacute swelling of the follicles and glands was very marked. It occasionally happens that the onset of the disease isaccompanied, or it may be preceded, by an attack of angina,tonsi litis, bronchitis or even broncho-pneumonia and it may bethat these conditions are due to the entrance of the virus. Poliomyelitis belongs to the class of diseases such as rabies,yellow fever, and foot and mouth diseas

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