Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1888 — Heart Disease in Children. [ARTICLE]

Heart Disease in Children.

In an article in the Brooklyn Medical Journal the writer calls attention to the frequency with which certain symptoms in children are misinterpreted or overlooked, and thus the origin of heart disease is neglected, when a little more care would lead to its detection and appropriate treatment. It is not an infrequent occurrence for a child to be taken sick with fever, together, perhaps, with nausea, vomiting and pain, which latter the child refers to the stomach. A hasty diagnosis is made of fever and pain due to gastric irritation; after a time the child makes a fair recovery, and the sickness is soon forgotten. But after the lapse of one, two or three years, the doctor is called to the child again, and, having occasion to examine the chest, is surprised to find a cardiac murmur, and wonders when the child had rheumatism.