An address delivered at the opening of the section of diseases of children, at the annual meeting of the British Medical Association in Liverpool, August 1883 / by Samuel Gee.

Samuel Gee

Date:: 1883

Credit: An address delivered at the opening of the section of diseases of children, at the annual meeting of the British Medical Association in Liverpool, August 1883 / by Samuel Gee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$[Reprinted for the Author from the British Mbcical Journal, Aub'. 4th, 1883.] AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE OPENING OF THE SECTION OF DISEASES OF CHILDREN, At the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association in Liverpool, August 1883. By SAMUEL GEE, M.D., F.R.G.P., Physician to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and to the Hospital’for Sick Children. A SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE OF THE DISEASES OF CHILDHOOD. In all studies of this kind, we turn to Hippocrates first of all Among the numerous treatises which bear his name, there is on v one which is devoted to the pathology of children, and that is the essay on dentition. It is a chain of aphorisms, concerning tht common disorders of children who are teething; voiiW dfarrhoS cough, convulsions, and fever are mentioned, but almost half He treaty relates to “ulcers of the tonsils,” a diseas“ difficult to identify in modern practice. Jn the work which especially bona , nair>e ° tbe AphorUms, there a-e some slight references to ~aildien s diseases: c.g., m bk. iii., aph. 24 25 26 “To m-tio o newborn children : aphthae, vomiting coirnhs sleenlessnoi r ® 1,Dd inflammation of the navel, watery°discharges from the ears^t Lie approach of dentition : pru.itus of the gums fevers convulsion diarrhoea, especially in cutting the canine teeth and in trl ?’ are particularly fat, and have cons/pated bowels to pL7° somewhat older : affections of the tonsils, incurvation ’of* tho ° at the vertebra next the occiput asthma nlnlil! , “ lhe sPlne StaSlths°F'O,d0°' P*'1** ckoerades, and 'othe”phjm°a™’; which we And at the beginning of the first book o^f th v ?lumPs> and Amellan I do not reco diseases worth notice, nor need I refer to thoi-f^ *0 children’s has to say upon our topic t0 the httle whlch P^lus The name of Rhazes must be held in honour by us ■ for ho *1, eaihest writer of a treatise upon the diseases of oi -in °r 116 18 ^ le it is ; for the chapters, which are^ryslmrt cLfIT ’’ 8UCh as of therapeutics, often absurd enough 7 Of some? 1 * alm?st wholly of disease, there is little or nothin^ %h™™Clolog{’ 01 description middle of the ninth centu7, 7persfa £0 TJ** ,about the notice, inasmuch as the earliest ortnnt .alias another claim to our measles bear his name ‘ WntlDgS uPon ^all-pox and »dhL7u ££&, a™L brr Eh““ ““ m“ta lhe “ W? SBSTaJS”$