This comprehensive monograph with its complete bibliography is written as a source of information and as a guide for the general care of the premature infant.
The content is divided into two parts: Part I covers general considerations including objective measures for prematurity, incidence of premature birth, causes and prevention, deaths of premature infants in the United States and physical growth and prognosis. Part II includes clinical considerations, clinical appraisal, care in the neonatal period, nutrition, congenital malformations, birth injuries, infection, abnormal blood conditions, metabolic disturbances, nutritional disturbances (rickets and tetany) and other conditions (retrolental fibroplasia, noninfectious skin conditions and diarrhea), and miscellaneous material is discussed in the appendixes.
This book could well be added to the library of all physicians and, because of its complete bibliography, should be of special interest to those desiring to keep posted on the subject as a whole.