What is "neonatorum"

Usage examples of "neonatorum".

A disease somewhat analogous is edema neonatorum, which is a subcutaneous edema with induration affecting the new-born.

This was a reference to ophthalmia neonatorum, the blindness of newborn infants caused by mothers infected with venereal disease.

Ophthalmia neonatorum was easily prevented by a solution of nitrate of silver dropped into each eye of the newborn child, she noted.

On a lobbying trip to North Carolina she persuaded the legislature to set up a commission for the blind, and she went to Washington to berate it for failure to require preventive measures against ophthalmia neonatorum, an old crusade.

As they depict him in their fevered treatises on illegitimacy, white-slave trading and ophthalmia neonatorum, the average male adult of the Christian and cultured countries leads a life of gaudy lubricity, rolling magnificently from one liaison to another, and with an almost endless queue of ruined milliners, dancers, charwomen, parlour-maids and waitresses behind him, all dying of poison and despair.

Turner says the first mention of trismus nascentium or tetanus neonatorum was made by Rev.

Gerard reports recovery from a case of sclerema neonatorum in an infant five weeks old, which seemed in perfect health but for this skin-affection.