LATE RESUSCITATION IN APNŒA NEONATORUM.

Asphyxia Neonatorum.

I have presented the material in three sections, the first concerns the antenatal events leading to foetal anoxia, the second deals with the management of labour, and the third discusses methods of treatment which may be applicable in domiciliary midwifery. I have quoted fairly extensively from the National Perinatal Mortality Survey (1961) carried out in 1958 under the auspices of the National...

Ophthalmia Neonatorum

Ihis work won for its author the Middleinore Piize of the British Medical Association in 1907. It contains the most complete account there is in the English language of a preventible disease winch is still responsible for a large amount of the blindness in the world. The book abounds with instructive tables taken from all available souices illustrating the prevalence, etiology, pievention and t...

Sulfanilamide in Ophthalmia Neonatorum *

Although the administration of sulfanilamide has led to spectacular improvement in infections due to Neisseria gonorrheae, only Hageman' thus far has mentioned its use in gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum. The present report includes four cases, in addition to the details of the case referred to by Hageman. Besides the drug, these infants have received auxiliary treatment locally of saline or bo...

Asphyxia Neonatorum

Fatty crystals in sclerema neonatorum.

The fatty crystals in three previously published cases of sclerema neonatorum were identified by means of x-ray diffraction as sodium stearate and palmitic acid. A composite view of the pathogenesis of both sclerema neonatorum and adiponecrosis cutis neonatorum is discussed.