TETANY ACCOMPANIED BY HYPERPYREXIA AND VOMITING IN THE FIRST DAYS OF LIFE

Abstract

Medical literature is replete with statements that tetany does not occur in the new-born infant. It is our purpose in this paper to present three cases, observed within the past year, of new-born infants who presented a clinical picture which we believe should permit its inclusion under the term "tetany." Our cases are the following: Case 1. —A. C., a girl (seen by S. K.), the first child of normal parents, delivered by Dr. E. M. Hawks, July 17, 1930, at term, weighed 7 pounds 7 ounces (3,375 Gm.). Labor was somewhat difficult because of a rigid perineum. An episiotomy was performed. The child was born with one coil of cord wound around her neck but showed no ill effect from it. In her first day of life she vomited, first some mucoid material, subsequently everything offered. The vomiting continued the next day and became projectile in character and followed