ARMSTRONG, George (1719 – 1789)
1719 – 1789
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
1767 CE
#6324
An essay on the diseases most fatal to infants.
One of the best pediatric works of the period. Armstrong is noteworthy as the founder of the first children’s dispensary in Europe, the Dispensary for Sick Children, London, in 1769.
1777 CE
#3425
An account of the diseases most incident to children, from their birth till the age of puberty.
This is an enlarged and more important (third) edition of his An essay on the diseases most fatal to infants (1767) No. 6324. Page 49: Important description of congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis.