Facets

1966

#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.

1966

#12369

Creation of an atrial septal defect without thoracotomy. A palliative approach to complete transposition of the great arteries.

Rashkind balloon atrial septostomy to treat transposition of the great vessels.

1967

#12716

In Japanese: [Acute febrile mucocutaneous syndrome with lymphoid involvement with specific desquamation of the fingers and toes in children.]

Kawasaki first reported this disease in 1961 in a four-year-old child with a rash and fever at the Red Cross Hospital in Tokyo; by the time he wrote this paper he had seen 50 cases. The mysterious novel illness was ev…

1967

#14198

Enzyme defect associated with a sex-linked human neurological disorder and excessive purine synthesis.

Jay Seegmiller and his colleagues at NIH discovered that the rare genetic disease, Lesch–Nyhan syndrome, was due to a profound deficiency of an enzyme known as hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyltransferase, or HGPRT.…

1969

#3047.22

A new approach to “anatomic” repair of transposition of the great arteries.

The Rastelli procedure. “Intraventricular rerouting of left ventricular output through the ventricular septal defect to the aorta and establishing of a new right ventricular outflow through the ventriculotomy and an e…

1969

#10211

Anatomy of the newborn: An atlas.

Self-illustrated by Crelin, this was the first atlas of human infant anatomy. Crelin followed this with a synopsis of the atlas, Functional anatomy of the newborn (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973).

1969

#11917

Neonatal surgery.

Rickham founded the first neonatal surgical unit in the world, at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool. This unit became the benchmark for similar units around the world. It brought about an improvement in the s…

1970

#10689

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome XI: De la génération. De la nature de l'enfant. Des maladies IV. Du foetus de huit mois. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.

Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises from the Hippocratic Collection about generation or considered to be about it: On generation, and On the nature of the child, both dated…

1971

#14304

Oral or nasogastric maintenance therapy in pediatric cholera patients.

1973

#14089

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

1974

#12245

Diagnosis of cyanotic congenital heart malformations in infants by real-time, two-dimensional echocardiography.

Two-dimensional (cross-sectional) echocardiography.

1974

#12717

A new infantile acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (MLNS) prevailing in Japan.

The first report on Kawasaki Disease in English. By 1973, 6,000 cases of Kawasaki disease were reported in Japan. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1974

#12718

Myocardial infarction due to coronary thromboarteritis following acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (MLNS) in an infant.

The authors reported the case of a 6 month old baby who died from a myocardiac infarction after "recovering" from Kawasaki disease. Autopsy showed that the baby died from classical coronary artery thrombosis accompani…

1975

#11190

Parvovirus-like particles in human sera. Preliminary communication.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Cossart, Field, Cant. First description of Parvovirus B19, the first human parvovirus discovered. It is among the smallest DNA viruses and is most often known for causing dis…

1978

#6604.8

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

1979

#6357.2

History of American pediatrics.

1981

#197.1

A history of the study of human growth.

1982

#12368

Congenital heart disease: Benchmark papers in human physiology.

1983

#11191

Human parvovirus, the cause of erythema infectiosum (Fifth disease)?

This single page document was published as a Letter to the Editor of The Lancet. Order of authorship of the letter: Anderson, Jones, Fisher-Hoch.... Identification of human parvovirus as the cause of "Fifth disease". …

1986

#6357.9

Historical aspects of pediatric surgery. Prog. pediat. Surg., 20.

Well-documented illustrated series of historical articles by various authors.

1986

#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.

1987

#9106

Breasts, bottles and babies: A history of infant feeding.

1987

#10624

Mothers and medicine: A social History of infant feeding, 1890–1950.

1987

#11192

Human parvovirus infection in pregnancy and hydrops fetalis.

Demonstration of the devastating effect of human parvovirus B19 on the human fetus. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1988

#9105

Wet nursing: A history from antiquity to the present.

1994

#8765

Nurturing yesterday's child: A portrayal of the Drake collection of paediatric history.

Pediatric prints, paintings, and antiques collected by Theodore G. H. Drake.

1995

#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. This genome c…

1995

#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.

1996

#8602

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

1997

#8734

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

1998

#11079

Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections: Clinical description of the first 50 cases.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Swedo, Leonard, Garvey.... Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS), "an hypothesis that there exists a subset …

1999

#8625

Nurturing children: A history of pediatrics

2000

#8664

Catalogue of the Samuel X. Radbill pediatric historical library of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

2001

#10623

Don't kill your baby: Public health and the decline of breastfeeding in the 19th and 20th Centuries.

2005

#12720

Cloning of a human parvovirus by molecular screening of respiratory tract samples.

Discovery of the first Human Bocavirus (HBoV1), a new virus species associated with lower respiratory infection almost always in children. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Allander, Tammi, Eriksson). …

2011

#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…

2011

#14152

Efficacy of intravitreal Bevacizumab for state 3+ retinopathy of prematurity.

The authors, representatives of the "BEAT-ROP Cooperative Group," showed that intravitreal bevacizumab monoclonal antibody therapy in infants with stage 3+ retinopathy of prematurity showed a significant benefit for z…

2012

#8105

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

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

2012

#11386

Children's surgery: A worldwide history.

2013

#10712

Charles Dickens and the sciences of childhood: Popular medicine, child health and victorian culture .

2013

#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…

2015

#8260

Al-Rāzī, On the treatment of small children (De curis puerorum). The Latin and Hebrew Translations, edited and translated by Gerrit Bos and Michael McVaugh.

One of the few texts on pediatrics that circulated during the Middle Ages, this short Latin tretise is the translation of a lost Arabic original attributed--perhaps mistakenly--to Rhazes.

2016

#10662

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

2017

#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 book des…

2018

#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 …

2020

#13520

Covid-19 and Kawasaki disease: Novel virus and novel case.

Published online 4-7-20; in print in June, 2020. First case report of what became known as Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), sometimes present with Kawasaki disease. This is one of the worst compl…

2021

#13477

Immediate "kangaroo mother care" and survival of infants with low birth weight.

This study demonstrated that "vulnerable infants have a better chance of survival if they start receiving 'kangaroo mother care'--which calls for babies to spend as much time as possible in direct contact with a caref…