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REM (beta) Reading Early Medicine

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.

The regiment of life. Newely perused, corrected, and enlarged…

Goeurot, Jean
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A new booke entyteled the regiment of lyfe: with a syngular Treatise of the pestilece…

Goeurot, Jean
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The byrth of mankynde, newly translated out of Laten into Englysshe. In the which is…

Rosslin, Eucharius
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A most safe and effectual cure for the rickets

[author not specified],
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In Red-Lion-Court, without Bishopsgate...

[author not specified],
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The famous and virtuous necklaces; one of them being of no greater weight than a…

Choke, John
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Those incomparable neck-laces, which were prepared by that great traveller, Major John Choke, one…

Choke, John
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Epilepsys, or convulsion-fits in children effectually cured; by an approved specifick powder, and balsamick…

Hammond, Thomas
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An exact enquiry into, and cure of the acute diseases of infants· By Walter Harris…

Harris, Walter
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A companion for midwives, child-bearing women, and nurses

Barret, Robert
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