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The common diseases of childhood :—Tubercular diseases 
of glands, joints, lungs and abdomen ; rheumatism ; purpura ; 
proneness to haemorrhage ; anaemia. 
Nervous diseases—idiocy, chorea, convulsions, paralysis. 
Abdominal diseases—of liver, of kidney, especially noting 
obscure cases of haematuria. Diseases of spleen, with various 
signs of malaria ; it is important to record the general con¬ 
dition of the very young children in malarial districts. 
Parasitic affections, intestinal and otherwise. Notes 
should be made as to the local distribution and history of 
parasites. Samples of the parasite to be obtained if possible. 
Specimens of blood should be obtained, whenever it is 
possible, in all diseases which may possibly contain bacteria, 
or be due to micro-organisms. (Vide sections on Pathology 
and Bacteriology.) The excretions should be carefully 
described. 
The prevalence of acute specific diseases, syphilis and 
exanthemata, should be ascertained, and anything regarding 
their course or symptoms different from what they usually 
present should be recorded. 
All accounts of diseases should be accompanied by elucida¬ 
tory and confirmatory descriptions of symptoms observed. 
Native names of diseases with accounts of symptoms 
observed, especially when these form a fairly constant group, 
are always worth recording, even if no English equivalent 
can be given. Notes of local remedies and modes of treat¬ 
ment are also useful, and all pathological specimens, coupled 
with accounts of illness, are worth preserving. 
Variations in the symptoms, course, result, or sequelae of 
diseases to which the children of natives and Europeans are 
alike subject, should be carefully observed, so as to determine, 
if possible, what part, if any, race and climate may play in the 
modification of disease. 
T. B. 
