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 ascending | First Name | Title | Date |
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Couch | Robert | Praxis catholica: or, The countryman’s universal remedy: wherein is plainly and briefly laid down the… | 1680 |
Choke | John | Those incomparable neck-laces, which were prepared by that great traveller, Major John Choke, one… | 1680 |
Choke | John | The famous and virtuous necklaces; one of them being of no greater weight than a… | 1680 |
Blégny | Nicholas | A true history of a child anatomized: which remained twenty five years in his mothers… | 1680 |
Barret | Robert | A companion for midwives, child-bearing women, and nurses | 1699 |
Allen | Charles | Curious observations in... chirurgery, relating to the teeth | 1687 |
Allen | Charles | The operator for the teeth | 1686 |
Allen | Charles | The operator for the teeth | 1685 |