Reports of the Society for the Study of Disease in Children
- SIGNED Cloth binding
- London: J. & A. Churchill, 1901-1908
London: J. & A. Churchill, 1901-1908. First edition.
SCARCE COMPLETE SET OF ILLUSTRATED REPORTS OF FIRST BRITISH SOCIETY FOR DISEASE IN CHILDREN.
Eight hardcover volumes (all published), 9 inches tall, red cloth binding, covers with blindstamped rulings, gilt title to spines, top edge gilt. Handstamp of British Medical Association Library to all volumes, and in Vol. I, handstamp, "Presented to the Library by" F. Jaffrey, Esq. FRCS (inscribed). Spines darkened, light browning to pages, very good minus.
SYDNEY STEPHENSON (1860 - 1923) earned his medical degree from Edinburgh University, became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He was an ophthalmologist at Queen's Hospital for Children and editor of The Ophthalmoscope, a review that had become the most important periodical in British ophthalmology. He made seminal contributions in the study of ophthalmia neonatorum, summarized in his book of that title. He founded with George Carpenter the Society for the Study of Disease in Children, and when the amalgamation of multiple societies resulted in the formation of the Royal Society of Medicine, it became one of the constituent sections.
GEORGE ALFRED CARPENTER (1859 – 1910) was an English pediatrician who described the Carpenter Syndrome. He earned his M.D. in London and became physician to the Queen's Hospital for Children. In 1900 he founded the Society for the Study of Disease in Children, the first British society of its kind, and compiled eight volumes of Reports (offered here). When the society was incorporated in the Royal Society of Medicine in 1908 and became the section for the study of disease in children, he was elected its president. His major publications were on congenital malformations of the heart, which was also the subject of his Wightman lecture delivered in 1909 before the section for the study of disease in children, Royal Society of Medicine, and published in the British Journal of Children's Diseases in 1909. In 1901 Carpenter published The Syphilis of Children in Everyday Practice. A short work, Golden Rules for Diseases of Infants and Children, published in 1901, reached a fourth and revised edition in 1911.
PROVENANCE: FRANCIS JAFFREY FRCS (1861 - 1919) was raised in Australia, and earned his M.D. at St. George's Hospital, London. He was surgeon to the Belgrave Hospital for Children and consulting surgeon to the Cripples' Home in Kensington. He became dean of the Medical School of St. George's Hospital while he was also Lecturer in Anatomy.
SCARCE COMPLETE SET OF ILLUSTRATED REPORTS OF FIRST BRITISH SOCIETY FOR DISEASE IN CHILDREN.
Eight hardcover volumes (all published), 9 inches tall, red cloth binding, covers with blindstamped rulings, gilt title to spines, top edge gilt. Handstamp of British Medical Association Library to all volumes, and in Vol. I, handstamp, "Presented to the Library by" F. Jaffrey, Esq. FRCS (inscribed). Spines darkened, light browning to pages, very good minus.
SYDNEY STEPHENSON (1860 - 1923) earned his medical degree from Edinburgh University, became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He was an ophthalmologist at Queen's Hospital for Children and editor of The Ophthalmoscope, a review that had become the most important periodical in British ophthalmology. He made seminal contributions in the study of ophthalmia neonatorum, summarized in his book of that title. He founded with George Carpenter the Society for the Study of Disease in Children, and when the amalgamation of multiple societies resulted in the formation of the Royal Society of Medicine, it became one of the constituent sections.
GEORGE ALFRED CARPENTER (1859 – 1910) was an English pediatrician who described the Carpenter Syndrome. He earned his M.D. in London and became physician to the Queen's Hospital for Children. In 1900 he founded the Society for the Study of Disease in Children, the first British society of its kind, and compiled eight volumes of Reports (offered here). When the society was incorporated in the Royal Society of Medicine in 1908 and became the section for the study of disease in children, he was elected its president. His major publications were on congenital malformations of the heart, which was also the subject of his Wightman lecture delivered in 1909 before the section for the study of disease in children, Royal Society of Medicine, and published in the British Journal of Children's Diseases in 1909. In 1901 Carpenter published The Syphilis of Children in Everyday Practice. A short work, Golden Rules for Diseases of Infants and Children, published in 1901, reached a fourth and revised edition in 1911.
PROVENANCE: FRANCIS JAFFREY FRCS (1861 - 1919) was raised in Australia, and earned his M.D. at St. George's Hospital, London. He was surgeon to the Belgrave Hospital for Children and consulting surgeon to the Cripples' Home in Kensington. He became dean of the Medical School of St. George's Hospital while he was also Lecturer in Anatomy.