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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.

A treatise of the rickets: being a diseas common to children. Wherin (among many other…

Glisson, Francis
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A treatise of the rickets: being a disease common to children. Wherein (among many other…

Glisson, Francis
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The birth of mankind, otherwise called, The womans book. Or, A guide for vvomen, in…

Rosslin, Eucharius
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Tractatus, de facultatibus simplicium, the second part of the treatise of the nature and qualitie…

Pemell, Robert
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A general treatise of the diseases of infants and children. Collected from the best practical…

Pechey, John
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The mothers family physician; or the infants doctor. Being a discourse of the disease in…

Mayow, John
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An exact enquiry into, and cure of the acute diseases of infants

Harris, Walter
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The English midwife enlarged

[author not specified],
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