Children in Health and Disease

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II THE PHYSIOLOGY OF CHILDREN (concluded) Postnatal Physiology. Physiology Of Growth?Interdependence of Organs; Changes in the Skeleton and in Bodily Proportions; Growth in Height; Growth in Weight; Growth of Individual Organs. Physiology Of Certain Special Functions?Digestion; Circulation and...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II THE PHYSIOLOGY OF CHILDREN (concluded) Postnatal Physiology. Physiology Of Growth?Interdependence of Organs; Changes in the Skeleton and in Bodily Proportions; Growth in Height; Growth in Weight; Growth of Individual Organs. Physiology Of Certain Special Functions?Digestion; Circulation and Respiration; Body-weight and Surface-area; Kidneys; Sweat; Carbon Dioxide; Respiratory Exchange; Lymphoid Tissue. PHYSIOLOGY OF METABOLISM?Experimental Methods; Growth and Animal Heat; Heat-Regulation; Its Development; Nutrition; Caloric Requirements of an Infant; Caloric Values of Food-stuffs; Respiratory Quotient; Growth and Heat-Production; Age not the Criterion of Food Requirements; Surface-area per kilo. Body-weight; Principles of Infant Feeding; Total Heat-loss; Total Minimum of Energy required; Human Milk; Its Calorific Value; The Quantity Required; Cow's Milk; Its Calorific Value; The Quantity Required; Influence of Muscle- work; Of Atmospheric Temperature; Size and Frequency of Feeds; The Feeding of Older Children. Puberty. III.?Postnatal Physiology As soon as the new-born infant has completed the immediate adjustments demanded by an altered environment, his physiology closely approximates to that of an adult. The numerous resemblances need not be touched on in this chapter. The differences, however?for the most part only matters of detail? are sufficient to confer important characteristics on his physiology. These points we shall now consider. The most fundamental distinction is the phenomenon of growth, and this subject will receive our first attention. We shall then deal with the functions of individual organs?excluding those of the nervous system, which will be reserved for the two next chapters?and then pass to the question of metaboli...