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A treatise on the diseases of children : with directions for management of infants from the birth / by Michael Underwood ; with notes by a physician of Philadelphia.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Underwood, Michael, 1736-1820, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children--Diseases.
- Children.
- Children--Health and hygiene.
- Infants--Care.
- Infants.
- Infants--Diseases.
- Pediatrics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume (xviii, 186, vi, 96, xi, 73 pages)).
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : James Webster, 1818.
- Summary:
- The most widely read Anglo-American paediatrics text of its generation. Like many medical books of the era, it was aimed at both laypersons and physicians.
- Notes:
- Collection reference: 111412.O
- Originally published in London in 1784. Underwood's Treatise appeared in ten London editions between 1784 and 1846, and was reprinted seven times in the United States between 1793 and 1842. A French translation was issued in the city of Quebec in 1803. This publishing history makes Underwood's text the most frequently published book on the diseases of children available to the American and Canadian public in the first half of the 19th century.
- Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Library Company of Philadelphia's catalogue, and 'An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform', compiled by Christopher Hoolihan.
- Three volumes in one, Vol. I. From the sixth London edition.
- Description based on online resource (last viewed March 21, 2025).
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