| Description Of Item | Includes newspaper cutting on Walter Mercer's appointment as the first professor of orthopaedic surgery at University of Edinburgh; newspaper cutting on the opening of the new hospital for sick children in Toronto; worship of Isis; excerpts from Ruhrah's 'Pediatrics of the Past' including 'The Boke of Children', Francis Glisson, Robert Pemell, Francis Sylvius, Richard Wiseman, J S J Starsmere, John Mayow, William Cadogan, pediatric poems, Claude Quillet, Sainte-Marthe, Hugh Downman, William Heberden and 'A Full View of All Diseases Incident to Children' by Ernest Caulfield; note on the first school for the deaf and dumb founded in Edinburgh by Thomas Braidwood; Scottish Paediatric Society; notes from 'Mortality of Children in the Principal States of Europe' by William Farr; death of Dr William Campbell; obituary of Dr William Beilby; article on 'The Countesse of Lincolnes Nurserie' by Ernest Caulfield; notes on the history of paediatrics in Scotland; 'Calcium and Tetany in Folk Medicine' by David Helling; notes on birth and infancy from 'County Folk-Lore - Fife, Clackmannan and Kinross'; Charles-Michel Billard; Francis Home; 'A Talmudic Contribution to the History of Diphtheria' by Abraham Bernstein; 'The Practice of Inoculation Recommended in a Sermon by the Reverend William Dodd'; 'Medallions and Plaques of Interest to Pediatricians' by Abraham Levinson; 'Shakespeare and Pediatrics' by Alton Goldbloom; 'An Early Case of Pyloric Stenosis' by Ernest Caulfield; 'John Locke Pediatrican' by George H Jackson; 'William Wadd' by Arthur Abt; 'Infant Feeding in England and France 1750-1800' by T G H Drake; 'History of Infant Feeding' by Arthur Bates Lyon; 'Evidence of Rickets prior to 1650' by John Foote; and 'John Jones Phisition - the second writer on pediatrics in English' by Samuel Radbill. |