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1996 CE

#8602

The machine in the nursery: Incubator technology and the origins of newborn intensive care.

1811 CE

#7801

The maternal physician; a treatise on the nurture and management of infants, from the birth until two years old. Being the result of sixteen years' experience in the nursery. Illustrated by extracts from the most approved medical authors

The first American book on pediatrics, in the tradition of "advice books" or childcare manuals for mothers. This was the first American printed book on a medical subject written by a woman. Pages 248-75 publish a list…

1966 CE

#11554

The papers of Alfred Blalock. Edited by Mark Ravitch. 2 vols.

This massive (2026-page) work includes a biographical study of Blalock, his complete bibliography, and biographical sketches of co-authors of Blalock's publications.

1955 CE

#8391

The Ramesseum papyri. Edited by Sir Alan Gardiner. 2 vols.

A collection of ancient Egyptian medical documents from the early 18th century BCE, found in the temple of the Ramesseum. As with most ancient Egyptian medical papyri, these documents mainly concern ailments, diseases…

1544 CE

#6317

The regiment of life, whereunto is added a treatise of the pestilence, with the boke of children.

The “boke of children” is the first work on diseases of children to be written by an Englishman the English language. Phaer enabled Englishmen to read and think of pediatrics in their own language. The edi…

1923 CE

#12588

The relation between home conditions and the intelligence of school children. From data collected by the late Mrs. Frances Wood. Privy Council. Medical Report Council. Special reports series No. 74.

1930 CE

#4507

The relationship of throat infection to acute rheumatism in childhood.

Schlesinger showed that hemolytic streptococcal infection was a cause of acute rheumatism in children.

1923 CE

#4807

The sacred disease. In [Works]…edited with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones. 2, 127-83

This includes the first mention of epilepsy in children. Hippocrates grouped all convulsive attacks together as ερα νο̂σος, the sacred disease. He did not employ the w…

2012 CE

#8105

The sick child in early modern England, 1580-1720.

The first book on children's health and illness in early modern England.

1953 CE

#6357.59

The surgery of infancy and childhood.

Gross developed the specialty of pediatric surgery, inventing numerous operations. This was the first modern comprehensive textbook on the subject.

1945 CE

#3043

The surgical treatment of malformations of the heart in which there is pulmonary stenosis or pulmonary atresia.

The “Blalock-Taussig operation” for the relief of congenital defects of the pulmonary artery, Tetralogy of Fallot ("blue baby syndrome"). "The first surgical repair was carried out in 1944 at Johns Hopkins…

1878 CE

#3719

Three cases of scurvy supervening on rickets in young children.

Infantile scurvy was confused with rickets until Cheadle differentiated between the two conditions.

1843 CE

#6333

Traité clinique et pratique des maladies des enfants. 3 vols.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1810 CE

#2378.1

Traité de la maladie vénérienne chez les enfans nouveau-nés, les femmes enceintes et les nourrices.

The first systematic work on congenital syphilis.

1854 CE

#2383

Traité de la syphilis des nouveau-nés et des enfants à la mamelle.

An important work on congenital syphilis. English translation, 1859.

1898 CE

#10269

Traité des maladies chirurgicales d'origine congénitale.

The first book entirely devoted to the surgical treatment of congenital abnormalities. The work also contains pp. 593-698 an exposition of Kirmisson's staged reduction of congenital dislocations of the hip, and discus…

1828 CE

#2285.1

Traité des maladies des enfans nouveau-nés et à la mamelle. 1 vol. and atlas.

The first significant work on the pathological anatomy of infants. Billard performed several hundred autopsies on infants and children and correlated the data obtained with clinical observations he had made. This pion…

1790 CE

#11783

Tratado da educação fysica dos meninos, para uso da naçaõ Portugueza publicado por ordem da Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa.

The first work on pediatrics written by a Brazilian physician. Digital facsimile from Biblioteca digital Luso-Brasileira at this link.

1898 CE

#4429.1

Traumatic separation of the epiphyses.

Definitive and exhaustive study of growth plate fractures in children. Poland also published the series of x rays included in the above work as a separate atlas: Skiagraphic atlas showing the development of the bones …

1813 CE

#5086.1

Treatise on the history, nature, and treatment of chincough: Including a variety of cases and dissections. To which is subjoined an inquiry into the relative mortality of the principal diseases of children, and the numbers who have died under ten years of age, in Glasgow, during the last thirty years.

Probably the second book on whooping cough, written after two of Watt's children died from the disease. After vaccination for smallpox was introduced, Watt found, as he had expected, that the number of deaths from tha…

1825 CE

#6331

Treatise on the physical and medical treatment of children.

First American textbook on pediatrics.

1733 CE

#3422

Two examples of children born with preternatural conformations of the guts.

First description of congenital atresia of the ileum.

1905 CE

#4713.1

Über familiäre amaurotische Idiotie und verwandte Krankheitsbilder.

Spielmayer-Vogt disease, or Spielmeyer-Vogt-Sjögren-Batten disease, the juvenile form of cerebromacular degeneration.

1891 CE–1893 CE

#4756

Ueber chronische spinale Muskelatrophie im Kindesalter, auf familiärer Basis.

“Hoffmann’s muscular atrophy” – independently described by Werdnig (No. 4755).

1875 CE

#3067

Ueber das Vorkommen von Bilirubinkrystallen bei neugebornen Kindern.

Kernicterus first described.

1908 CE

#3080.1

Ueber den habituellen Ikterus de Neugeborenen.

First detailed description of familial icterus gravis neonatorum.

1887 CE

#4089

Ueber die Aetiologie und Therapie der Impetigo, des Furunkels und der Sykosis.

First description of impetigo circumpilaris infantilis (“Bockhart’s impetigo”).

1885 CE

#4643

Ueber die akute Encephalitis der Kinder (Polioencephalitis acuta, cerebrale Kinderlähmung).

“Strumpell’s disease” – polioencephalomyelitis.

1884 CE

#4747

Ueber die juvenile Form der progressiven Muskelatrophie und ihre Beziehungen zur sogenannten Pseudohypertrophie der Muskeln.

Progressive muscular dystrophy (“Erb’s muscular atrophy”). Erb did much to establish the modern conception of the muscular dystrophies.

1906 CE

#4594.1

Ueber die nicht epileptischen Absencen oder kurzen narkoleptischen Anfälle.

First description of pyknolepsy.

1876 CE

#2486

Ueber eine Mykose bei einem neugeborenen Kinde (Bakterienfärbung mit Anilinfarben).

In this paper Weigert showed that methyl violet will reveal cocci in tissues.

1908 CE

#4145

Ueber Erythrodermia desquamativa, eine eigenartige universelle Dermatose der Brustkinder.

Desquamative erythroderma of nurslings (Leiner); apparently a toxic eruption peculiar to breast-fed children suffering from enteritis.

1886 CE

#6341

Ueber Kindermilch und Säuglings-Ernährung.

Soxhlet wrote on the nature of milk droplets, estimated the specific gravity of milk with his lactodensimeter, described an apparatus for the sterilization of milk, and devised a test for the estimation of fats in milk.

1889 CE

#3131

Ueber Leukaemia und Leukocytose im Kindesalter.

From this classic description of infantile pseudoleukemic anemia, the condition became known as “von Jaksch’s disease”.

1889 CE

#5504

Ueber örtliche Rötheln.

First description of acute infectious erythema, “fifth disease”, called also “Sticker’s disease” after the latter’s description of it in Z. prakt. Aerzte, 1899, 8, 353.

1903 CE

#6344

Ueber Trophodermatoneurose.

First clear description of infantile acrodynia (“pink disease”).

2011 CE

#12719

Ultrastructural, immunofluorescence, and RNA evidence support the hypothesis of a "new" virus associated with Kawasaki disease.

The authors concluded that a very common infectious agent, one that usually results in an asymptomatic infection, causes Kawasaki disease in a subset of genetically predisposed children. They argued that the available…

1764 CE

#6323

Underrättelser om barn-sjukdomar och deras botemedel.

Sir Frederic Still considered this work “the most progressive which had yet been written”; it gave an impetus to research which influenced the future course of pediatrics. Rosén was particularly int…

1906 CE

#2518.1

Upon the bacteriology of the summer diarrhoea of infants.

Morgan’s bacillus, Proteus morgani.

1684 CE

#12044

Verhandelinge van de opvoedinge en ziekten der kinderen. Vertoonende op wat wyse de kinderen gezond konnen blyven, en ziek zijnde, bequamelyk konnen herstelt werden. Zeer nodig voor alle huyshoudende lieden.

A book intended for a popular audience on raising, educating, and caring for health problems of children. Blankaart offered advice and instructions to parents for treating all sorts of children's illnesses as well as …

1491 CE

#6314

Versehung des Leibs.

Written in 1429, this didactic poem is the first known text to be devoted to the normal physiology and common illnesses of children. It was written in old Swabian, and its author was a monk. The poem was probably inte…

1881 CE

#6339

Vorlesungen über Kinderkrankheiten.

Henoch, whose name is remembered for his description of purpura, initiated the modern concept of pediatrics. English translation, New York, 1882.

1988 CE

#9105

Wet nursing: A history from antiquity to the present.

1910 CE

#8710

What you ought to know about your baby by Leonard Keene Hirshberg. A text book for mothers on the care and feeding of babies, with questions and answers especially prepared by the editor.

Ghost-written by American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English H. L. Mencken except for the "questions and answers." In a copy that sold at auction at Christies in 1995, Mencken inscri…

1995 CE

#11343

Whole-genome random sequencing and assembly of Haemophilus influenzae Rd.

First sequence of the complete genome of a free-living non-viral organism—Haemophilus influenzae—the bacterium that causes lower respiratory tract infections and meningitis in infants and young children. T…

1912 CE

#3539

Zur Operation der angeborenen Pylorusstenose.

The first pyloromyotomy for pyloric stenosis, incising the pyloric muscle while leaving the mucosa intact and leaving the muscle to heal: “Rammstedt’s operation.” In 1920 Rammstedt discovered that th…

1891 CE

#4755

Zwei frühinfantile hereditäre Fälle von progressiver Muskelatrophie unter dem Bilde der Dystrophie, aber auf neurotischer Grundlage.

“Werdnig-Hoffmann muscular atrophy”, an infantile familial form of progressive muscular atrophy. Hoffmann independently described it (see No. 4756).