There was no separate branch of medicine devoted to the health of children, as pediatrics is today. Most midwifery manuals addressed the care of the newborn, and sometimes infant care as well. In the early modern period we begin to see the first books specifically devoted to health care for children.
Last Name Sort descending | First Name | Title | Date |
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Rosslin | Eucharius | The birth of mankind, otherwise called, The womans book. Or, A guide for vvomen, in… | 1654 |
Rueff | Jakob | The expert midwife, or An excellent and most necessary treatise of the generation and birth… | 1637 |
S. | J. | Paidōn nosēmata· = or Childrens diseases, both outward and inward. From the time of their birth… | 1664 |
Würtz | Felix | The surgeons guid: or Military and domestique surgery. Discovering plainly and faithfully the exact cures… | 1658 |
Yonge | James | Wounds of the brain proved curable, not only by the opinion and experience of many… | 1682 |
[author not specified] | In Red-Lion-Court, without Bishopsgate... | 1661 | |
[author not specified] | A most safe and effectual cure for the rickets | 1676 | |
[author not specified] | The English midwife enlarged | 1682 |