Facets

1925 CE

#6354

Pediatrics of the past: an anthology.

Contains sketches of the lives of the more important pediatricians of the past, with a comprehensive selection of their works, translated where necessary into English. Ruhräh has thrown much light on the importan…

1986 CE

#12376

Pioneering research in surgical shock and cardiovascular surgery: Vivien T. Thomas and his work with Alfred Blalock. An autobiography by Vivien T. Thomas

Later retitled, Partners of the Heart: Vivien Thomas and His Work with Alfred Blalock.

1943 CE

#6357

Pioneers of pediatrics. 2nd ed.

1563 CE

#5563

Practica der Wundartzney.

Würtz was a friend of Gessner and an admirer of Paracelsus; his book went through many editions and was translated into English, French, and Dutch. It describes the treatment of gunshot wounds, fractures, and dis…

1814 CE

#4021.1

Practical treatise on porrigo, or scald head, and on impetigo, the humid or running teter

This treatise on infantile eczema is the only fascicule of the second volume of Willan’s On cutaneous diseases (No.4018) that ever appeared in print. It was edited for publication after Willan's death by his ste…

1815 CE–1818 CE

#6329

Praktische Abhandlungen über die vorzüglichen Krankheiten des Kindesalters. Vol. 1: Von der hitzigen Gehirnhöhlen-Wassersucht; Vol. 2: Vom inneren chronischen Wasserkopfe....

"In 1818, Leopold Anton Gölis (1765-1827, Austrian physician and pathologist), a paediatrician and dissector in the Institute for the Sick Children of the Poor in Vienna, described the clinical and autopsy findin…

1671 CE–1674 CE

#2197

Praxeos medicae idea nova. 4 vols.

Sylvius was a supporter of the Iatrochemical School. At Leiden he established the first university chemical laboratory in Europe. His extensive treatise on the diseases of children was first published as volume 4 of t…

1922 CE

#6348.1

Premature and congenitally diseased infants.

“The first book ever written dealing solely with premature and congenitally diseased infants” (Cone). Hess founded the first premature infant center in the United States at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago.

2016 CE

#10662

Progressive mothers, better babies, race, public health, and the state in Brazil, 1850-1945.

1938 CE

#3148.2

Recherches sur l’anémie érythroblastique infantile des peuples de la Méditerranée orientale. Étude anthropologique, étiologique et pathogénique. La transmission héréditaire de la maladie.

First evidence that thalassemia is genetically determined. Earlier report in Kliniki, Athens, 1936, 12, No. 5.

1473 CE

#6316

Regiment der jungen Kinder.

This work has very little originality, being mainly derived from the Arabic physicians of 500 years before, but is noteworthy as being the first book on pediatrics printed in German. It includes what is probably the f…

1821 CE

#4411.1

Remarks on certain injuries of the bones in children.

On bending fractures in children.

1948 CE

#3107.1

Replacement transfusion as a treatment for erythroblastosis fetalis.

Exchange transfusion.

1949 CE

#4914

Revascularization of the brain through establishment of a cervical arteriovenous fistula. Effects in children with mental retardation and convulsive disorders.

With C. F. McKhann and W. D. Belnap.

1973 CE

#14089

Rh: The intimate history of a disease and its conquest.

2013 CE

#12023

Ritual and conflict: The social relations of childbirth in early modern England.

"This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy - the violation of the marital norm - it proceeds through marriage to th…

1910 CE

#5506

Roseola infantilis.

Roseola (exanthema) subitum first described as a distinct entity.

1933 CE

#3725

Scurvy treated with ascorbic acid.

First case of infantile scurvy cured by the administration of ascorbic acid.

1897 CE

#10597

Skin diseases of children. With twelve photogravure and chromographic plates, and sixty illustrations in the text.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1956 CE

#9367

Soranus' Gynecology. Translated by Owsei Temkin with the assistance of Nicolson J. Eastman, Ludwig Edelstein, and Alan F. Guttmacher.

1897 CE

#11272

Sporadic cretinism in America.

In 1893 Osler was among the first American physicians to use thyroid extract to treat myxedema or cretinism. He made a special study of the disease, corresponding with physicians across America to try to determine its…

1959 CE

#12969

Standards for height and weight of British children from birth to maturity.

Tanner established "normal" parameters for ranking the height and weight of children by percentile during growth. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1887 CE–1888 CE

#3489

Stuhlträgheit Neuegeborener in Folge von Dilatation und Hypertrophie des Colons.

Hirschsprung’s diseases (congenital megacolon).

1941 CE

#5096

Sulfanilylguanidine in the treatment of acute bacillary dysentery in children.

E. K. Marshall, A. C. Bratton, L. B. Edwards, and E. L. Walker were the first to use sulphaguanidine in the treatment of bacillary dysentery.

1927 CE

#2346

Sur la vaccination préventive des enfants nouveau-nés contre la tuberculose par le B.C.G.

1766 CE

#4302.2

Sur un enfant auquel il manquoit les deux clavicules, le sternum et les cartilages, qui dans l’état naturel l’attachent aux côtes.

First description of cleido-cranial dysostosis.

1929 CE

#4397

Sur une forme de dystrophie osseuse familiale.

“Morquio’s disease”, eccentro-osteochondrodysplasia.

1939 CE

#3039

Surgical ligation of a patent ductus arteriosus: Report of first successful case.

One of the earliest successful surgical repairs for congenital heart disease. See also later paper in Ann. Surg.,1939, 110, 321-56.

1880 CE–1881 CE

#5918

Symmetrical changes in the region of the yellow spot in each eye of an infant.

Tay was the first to describe amaurotic familial idiocy, his paper dealing mainly with the ocular manifestations. The condition later became known as “Tay-Sachs’s disease” (see also No. 4705).

1978 CE

#6604.8

Tears often shed. Child health and welfare in Australia from 1788.

2017 CE

#12546

Teens and their doctors: The story of the development of adolescent medicine.

Traces the development of adolescent medicine from the first program, opened by Ros Gallagher at Boston Children’s Hospital, in 1951, to the creation of the Society for Adolescent Medicine (SAM), in 1968. The bo…

2018 CE

#11461

Temporal development of the gut microbiome in early childhood from the TEDDY study.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Stewart, Ajami, O'Brien....This study confirmed that "breastfeeding was associated with higher levels of Bididofacterium species" (a very desirable organism), and that …

1997 CE

#8734

Tending the young from the T.G.H. Drake collection on the history of pediatrics.

1841 CE

#10723

The American vegetable practice, or, a new and improved guide to health: Designed for the use of families. : In six Parts. Part I. Concise view of the human body, with engraved and wood-cut illustrations. Part II. Glance at the old school practice of physic. Part III. Vegetable materia medica, with colored Illustrations. Part IV. Compounds. Part V. Practice of medicine, based upon what are deemed correct physiological and pathological principles. Part VI. Guide for women, containing a simplified treatise on childbirth, with a description of the diseases peculiar to females and infant. 2 vols.

The first American book with chromolithographed illustrations printed in America. The chromolithographed images depict American medicinal plants. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1867 CE

#6862

The application of the principles and practice of homoeopathy to obstetrics, and the disorders peculiar to women and young children.

Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library at the Internet Archive at this link.

1944 CE

#3412.1

The ascertainment of deafness in infancy and early childhood.

Tests of hearing in children.

1962 CE

#8893

The battered-child syndrome.

"In 1962, Dr. C. Henry Kempe and his colleagues led the identification and recognition of child abuse with the defining paper, The Battered Child Syndrome. This paper was regarded as the single most significant event …

1894 CE

#6342.1

The care and feeding of children: A catechism for the use of mothers and children's nurses.

A commonsense work written for parents and caretakers of children rather than for physicians. This brief book achieved a popular success unrivalled by any previous American medical publication. It was the forerunner o…

1946 CE

#11819

The common sense book of baby and child care.

One of the best-selling books of the twentieth century, selling 500,000 copies in the six months after its initial publication in 1946, and 50 million by the time of Spock's death in 1998. As of 2011, the book had bee…

1995 CE

#12364

The developing heart: A "history" of pediatric cardiology.

A memoir, largely from personal experience, of the developments in embryology, pathology, clinical features, treatment of congenital heart disease.

1950 CE

#12821

The diagnosis and treatment of endocrine disorders in childhood and adolescence.

The first textbook of pediatric endocrinology.

1896 CE

#5444

The diagnosis of the invasion of measles from a study of the exanthema as it appears on the buccal mucous membrane.

Koplik, American pediatrician, was the first to note and report on “Koplik’s spots”, the buccal spots which are an important early diagnostic sign in measles.

1897 CE

#6342.2

The diseases of infancy and childhood.

The first really complete and authoritative American text on the subject.

1924 CE

#6350

The food requirements of malnourished infants with a note on the use of insulin.

Marriott introduced the insulin-fattening method of treatment of malnutrition in infants.

1902 CE

#7979

The Goulstonian lectures on some abnormal psychical conditions in children. Delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London on March 4th, 6th, and 11th, 1902.

Considered by many historians to be the scientific starting point of the study of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Digital facsimile of the separate offprint from the Internet Archive at this link.

1910 CE

#11446

The health index of children.

Hoag was medical director of the public schools in Berkeley, California. As Hoag wrote in his introduction, the object of this work was "to show teachers and parents how to detect easily those ordinary physical defect…

1931 CE

#6356

The history of paediatrics. The progress of the study of diseases of children up to the end of the XVIIIth century.

This work covers the whole field of pediatrics to the end of the 18th century. It is a very readable, interesting and accurate history of the subject. Reprinted Folkstone, 1965. See No. 4503.

1937 CE

#8751

The history of the acute exanthemata.

Smallpox, chicken pox, scarlet fever, measles and German measles. Rolleston was the brother of Sir Humphrey Davy Rolleston.

1930 CE

#11324

The infant welfare movement in the eighteenth century.

1887 CE

#6342

The intestinal diseases of infancy and childhood.

Jacobi was the first in the United States to specialize in the practice of pediatrics. In 1862 he founded the first pediatric clinic in the U.S., in New York. He wrote extensively on pediatrics.