A Treatise on the Diseases of Children, with General Directions for the Management of Infants from the Birth
- SIGNED Full leather binding
- Philadelphia: T. Dobson, 1793
Philadelphia: T. Dobson, 1793. First American edition.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF ONE OF GROLIER 100 BOOKS FAMOUS IN MEDICINE.
6 3/4 inches tall hardcover, full leather binding, rebacked with red leather gilt title label to spine, bookplate of Robert L. Chevalier, MD to front paste-down, i-xx, 404 pp, [4]. Wear to covers, corners worn, browning to endpapers, light browning to pages, binding tight, very good minus in custom archival mylar cover.
Number 48 in GROLIER 100 BOOKS FAMOUS IN MEDICINE: "Michael Underwood (1736-1820) was the most advanced pediatrician of his day. He studied surgery and midwifery (a field that then included both obstetrics and pediatrics) in both London and Paris. In 1779 he was appointed surgeon to the British Lying-in Hospital. Underwood's influential Treatise on the Diseases of Children (1784) remained an important pediatric text for over sixty years and initiated the modern study of the diseases of childhood. The single-volume first edition, addressed to both the medical profession and the laity, provided the first description ot sclerema neonatorum ("Underwoods disease"), as well as accounts of some forty "new disorders" of children. The book discussed pediatric luxations and fractures, subjects that had been neglected for two hundred years, and included a pioneering essay on infant psychology. Most significant, however, was Underwood's discussion of artificial infant feeding, a practice that originated in his century. His formulation of boiled cow's milk diluted with barley water was the closest approximation to mother's milk at that time and was certainly more appropriate for infant feeding than the boiled bread, beer, and other unsuitable foodstuffs that had previously been recommended. A total of seven editions of Underwood's book were published during his lifetime, each directed more and more toward the medical profession. The second edition (1789), a two-volume work, gave the first account of poliomyelitis, and tor this Underwood is now recognized as one of the founders of pediatric neurology. In the fourth edition (1799), a three-volume work, he gave the first description of congenital heart disease, which makes him one of the pioneers of pediatric cardiology. I he last edition during his lifetime was published in 1819. American editions were published in 1793 (offered here),1806, 1841, and 1842; French editions in 1786 and 1823; and a German edition in 1848."
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF ONE OF GROLIER 100 BOOKS FAMOUS IN MEDICINE.
6 3/4 inches tall hardcover, full leather binding, rebacked with red leather gilt title label to spine, bookplate of Robert L. Chevalier, MD to front paste-down, i-xx, 404 pp, [4]. Wear to covers, corners worn, browning to endpapers, light browning to pages, binding tight, very good minus in custom archival mylar cover.
Number 48 in GROLIER 100 BOOKS FAMOUS IN MEDICINE: "Michael Underwood (1736-1820) was the most advanced pediatrician of his day. He studied surgery and midwifery (a field that then included both obstetrics and pediatrics) in both London and Paris. In 1779 he was appointed surgeon to the British Lying-in Hospital. Underwood's influential Treatise on the Diseases of Children (1784) remained an important pediatric text for over sixty years and initiated the modern study of the diseases of childhood. The single-volume first edition, addressed to both the medical profession and the laity, provided the first description ot sclerema neonatorum ("Underwoods disease"), as well as accounts of some forty "new disorders" of children. The book discussed pediatric luxations and fractures, subjects that had been neglected for two hundred years, and included a pioneering essay on infant psychology. Most significant, however, was Underwood's discussion of artificial infant feeding, a practice that originated in his century. His formulation of boiled cow's milk diluted with barley water was the closest approximation to mother's milk at that time and was certainly more appropriate for infant feeding than the boiled bread, beer, and other unsuitable foodstuffs that had previously been recommended. A total of seven editions of Underwood's book were published during his lifetime, each directed more and more toward the medical profession. The second edition (1789), a two-volume work, gave the first account of poliomyelitis, and tor this Underwood is now recognized as one of the founders of pediatric neurology. In the fourth edition (1799), a three-volume work, he gave the first description of congenital heart disease, which makes him one of the pioneers of pediatric cardiology. I he last edition during his lifetime was published in 1819. American editions were published in 1793 (offered here),1806, 1841, and 1842; French editions in 1786 and 1823; and a German edition in 1848."