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 | First Name | Title Sort ascending | Date |
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Blégny | Nicholas | A true history of a child anatomized: which remained twenty five years in his mothers… | 1680 |
Glisson | Francis | A treatise of the rickets: being a disease common to children. Wherein (among many other… | 1668 |
Glisson | Francis | A treatise of the rickets: being a disease common to children. Wherein (among many other… | 1668 |
Glisson | Francis | A treatise of the rickets: being a diseas common to children. Wherin (among many other… | 1651 |
Goeurot | Jean | A new booke entyteled the regiment of lyfe: with a syngular Treatise of the pestilece… | 1543 |
[author not specified] | A most safe and effectual cure for the rickets | 1676 | |
Pechey | John | A general treatise of the diseases of infants and children. Collected from the best practical… | 1697 |
Barret | Robert | A companion for midwives, child-bearing women, and nurses | 1699 |