Facets

1894

#5939

Conjonctivite lacrymale à pneumocoques des nouveau-nés.

1894

#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…

1894

#13235

Des Kindes Sprache und Sprachfehler.

Hermann Gutzmann Sr. founded phoniatrics as a medical specialty. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1896 –1897

#4503

On a form of chronic joint disease in children.

“Still’s disease”, chronic articular rheumatism in children. See also Nos. 4499 and 6356.

1896

#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

#3792

On a condition of mixed premature and immature development.

Hastings Gilford gave progeria its name; it was first fully reported by him in Practitioner, 1904, 73, 188-217. Digital facsimile of the 1897 paper from PubMedCentral at this link.

1897

#6342.2

The diseases of infancy and childhood.

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

1897

#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.

1897

#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…

1898

#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 …

1898

#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…

1900

#2336

Les maladies qu’on soigne à Berck.

An account of the work of the Rothschild Hospital at Berck-sur-Mer, where Calot specialized in the treatment of surgical tuberculosis in children.

1900

#6344.1

Le nourrisson. Alimentation et hygiène.

Pioneer treatise on the care and feeding of premature and newborn infants. Budin sponsored the idea that an infant should be given milk equal in amount to one-tenth of its body weight. English translation, London, 1907.

1902

#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.

1903 –1906

#6343

Lehrbuch der Kinderheilkunde. 2 vols.

Heubner was professor of pediatrics at Berlin. With Rubner he determined the caloric requirement of infants and did other important work on infant feeding.

1903

#6344

Ueber Trophodermatoneurose.

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

1905

#4713.1

Über familiäre amaurotische Idiotie und verwandte Krankheitsbilder.

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

1906

#4594.1

Ueber die nicht epileptischen Absencen oder kurzen narkoleptischen Anfälle.

First description of pyknolepsy.

1906

#2518.1

Upon the bacteriology of the summer diarrhoea of infants.

Morgan’s bacillus, Proteus morgani.

1907

#3868

On suprarenal sarcoma in children with metastases in the skull.

Hutchison’s tumors.

1908

#3080.1

Ueber den habituellen Ikterus de Neugeborenen.

First detailed description of familial icterus gravis neonatorum.

1908

#3528

On infantilism from chronic intestinal infection; characterized by the overgrowth and persistence of flora of the nursling period.

“Herter’s infantilism”. Called also “Gee-Herter disease” (No. 3491).

1908

#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.

1909

#4835

Die Tetanie der Kinder.

1909

#5300

Le kala azar infantile.

Nicolle considered infantile kala-azar to be caused by a distinct species of Leishmania; to this he gave the name L. infantum.

1910

#5506

Roseola infantilis.

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

1910 –1912

#6347

Handbuch der Kinderheilkunde. 2te. Aufl. 6 vols.

English translation, 1912-24.

1910

#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…

1910

#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…

1911

#4685

A case of suprarenal apoplexy.

Waterhouse–Friderichsen (WFS) syndrome (see also Nos. 4679, 4686).

1911

#7762

Observations upon the natural history of epidemic diarrhoea.

Diarrhoea was one of the chief causes of child mortality in Great Britain at the turn of the century. Peters begins with a statistical study of age incidence, prevalence, and fatality of the condition and then in succ…

1912

#3233

Der primäre Lungenherd bei der Tuberkulose der Kinder.

Ghon described the anatomical distribution and development of the lesions in pulmonary tuberculosis among children – “Ghon’s primary focus”. His book was translated into English in 1916. See also No. 3224.

1912

#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 the family name had …

1914

#5506.1

German measles (rubella): an experimental study.

Experimental proof that rubella is caused by a virus.

1914

#6348

Erythroedema.

Acrodynia (“pink disease”, “Swift’s disease”); first full description.

1915

#11753

Outline of common skin diseases including eruptive fevers. Also diet plans for children in use in the Department of Pediatrics, the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Gilchrist was the first professor to concentrate on dermatology at Johns Hopkins, joining the faculty in 1898. His guide to the common skin diseases, published for the use of medical students at Hopkins, was printed l…

1918

#4686

Nebennierenapoplexie bei kleinen Kindern.

See No. 4685.

1922

#4150

A new eruptive fever associated with stomatitis and ophthalmia; report of two cases in children.

“Stevens-Johnson syndrome”, a generalized eruption, continued fever, inflamed buccal mucosa, and severe purulent conjunctivitis. B.A. Thomas (Brit. med. J., 1950, 1, 1393) believes this to be merely a severe form of H…

1922

#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.

1922

#6352

Die Geschichte der Kinderheilkunde.

1923

#6349

Eine eigenartige Neurose des vegetativen Systems beim Kleinkinde.

Feer described a vegetative neurosis (“Feer’s disease”) affecting infants and characterized by cyanosis of the extremities, recurrent sweating, tremor, motor weakness, rapid pulse, and insomnia. It was first described…

1923

#6353

History of pediatrics. In I. Abt, System of pediatrics, 1, 1-170.

Re-issued separately with an appendix on the history of pediatrics in recent times by A. F. Abt, Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders, 1965.

1923

#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 word έπίληψις, (which seems first to have been used…

1923

#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.

1924

#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.

1925

#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 important con…

1925

#6355

Erstlinge der pädiatrischen Literatur.

Facsimile reproductions of the three earliest printed works on pediatrics: Bagellardo, Metlinger, and Roelans, together with a valuable prefatory essay on their importance.

1927

#2346

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

1927

#3141

Anemia in children, with splenomegaly and peculiar changes in the bones.

“Cooley’s erythroblastic anemia”, thalassemia. With E. R. Witwer and O. P. Lee. An earlier brief account by Cooley and Lee appeared in Trans. Amer. Pediat. Soc.,1925, 37, 29.

1927

#3142

Familiäre infantile perniziösaartige Anämie (perniziöses Blutbild und Konstitution).

“Fanconi’s syndrome”, congenital hypoplasia of bone marrow with multiple congenital defects occurring as a familial disease.