Continuing the series of Sunday afternoon talks at the Harvard Medical School, Longwood Avenue, Boston, Dr. P. W. Emerson '07 will speak tomorrow on "Heart Trouble in Children." The lecture, which is open to the public, will begin at 4 o'clock.
Dr. Emerson classifies the causes of heart disease in children under two heads: under the first the child is born with, a weak heart, and under the second the heart has been infected. The only treatment possible in either example is care against infection of strain.
The only certain way of preventing heart-strain in a child is by the confinement of the patient in bed. But what busy mother can attend the needs of a restless child in bed for months? No more could the child be taken to an acute hospital, because there are beds enough only for children who need active nursing care, and because the expense for one child is unduly high. Dr. Emerson feels strongly that state hospitals are needed in which a child can spend one or two years and receive his education at the same time.
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