The history of paediatrics : the progress of the study of diseases of children up to the end of the XVIIIth century / by George Frederic Still.

  • Still, G. Frederic (George Frederic), Sir, 1868-1941.
Date:
1931
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Credit: The history of paediatrics : the progress of the study of diseases of children up to the end of the XVIIIth century / by George Frederic Still. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    make up this fragmentary treatise, some evidence that part of it referred to the feeding of infants. ‘Be the milk of a stranger good, then her [the mother’s] own milk is hurtful: be the milk of a stranger hurtful then her own milk is helpful’; a recognition apparently of the fact that where one woman’s milk does not suit, the milk of another woman may do so. The Hippocratic writings comprise no section devoted specially to diseases of children beyond those already quoted, but these are sufficient to show that even as far back as the time of the Father of Medicine, it was already recognized that disease in children presents features of its own.