Excerpt from The Medical Clinics of North America, Vol. 3: July, 1919
The diseases of early infancy are due particularly to nutritional disturbances and diseases of the gastro-intestinal and respiratory tracts. Occasionally infectious diseases, such as occur in later childhood, may occur in infancy. How far one may speak of immunity in infancy against certain infectious diseases is difficult to formulate in the present state of our knowledge.
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