Nurturing Children: A History of Pediatrics. A. R. Colón

I know of no contemporary pediatrician who believes that the cutting of deciduous teeth causes skin rashes. But, almost all the great figures in the history of pediatrics believed firmly that teething was associated with a riety of rashes. Michael Underwood, who more than anyone else laid the foundation of modern pediatrics, wrote about tooth-rashes as follows: A very common rash, appears chiefly in teething children, which yery much resembles the measles, and has been sometimes mistaken for it. It is preceded by sickness at the stomach, but is attended by very little fever; though the rash continues very florid for three days, like the measles, but does not dry off in the manner of that disease. . . . While the double or eye-teeth are cutting, I have noticed a rash Which at its first appearance is very similar to the above, and has likewise been mistaken for the measles. It, however, soon spreads into larger spots and patches of bright red, and afterwards of a darker hue, resembling the ill-looking petechiae which appear in bad fevers, but is, nevertheless, of a benign nature. It is, indeed, attended with some fever, arising possibly from the irritation occasioned by teething, and has been followed by small and hard round tumours on the legs, which softening in two or three days, always appear as if they would suppurate, though I believe they never do . . . [? erythema nodosum, T. E. C., Jr.] I have seen a third kind of rash, in appearance resembling the measles, and, like it, covering the whole body, but with larger intermediate patches, like the eruption in the scarlet fever. . . .

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Tay-Sachs Disease

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.36.3.358 ◽

1965 ◽

Vol 36 (3) ◽

pp. 358-358

Author(s):

ALLEN C. CROCKER

Keyword(s):

Chronic Disease ◽

Pediatric Patients ◽

Single Group ◽

Tay Sachs Disease ◽

Uncommon Disease ◽

History Of ◽

History Of Pediatrics ◽

Disease Hospital

Rarely in this history of pediatrics has a single group of workers so rapidly and effectively brought into focus the special problems of an uncommon disease as have the staff of the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in Brooklyn with their studies on Tay-Sachs disease. For a decade they have maintained a steady program of intense interest in this disease led by Drs. Stanley Aronson, Bruno Volk, and Abraham Saifer. A valuable series of personal contributions to the knowledge of this syndrome have resulted, but even more they have stimulated a widespread concern for these pediatric patients in the medical world generally.

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Handburgh Der Kinderheilkunde, Vol. IV

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.37.4.706a ◽

1966 ◽

Vol 37 (4) ◽

pp. 706-707

Author(s):

HEINZ F. EICHENWALD

Keyword(s):

Gastrointestinal Function ◽

Present Volume ◽

History Of ◽

History Of Pediatrics ◽

Attention To Detail

This book represents Volume IV of a massive German effort to discuss all of pediatrics in an encyclopedic fashion, and, if future volumes are as fine as the several already published this effort will represent a notable achievement as well as a landmark in the history of pediatrics. The present volume contains within its 1,243 pages the general topics of metabolism, nutrition, and gastrointestinal function. Under the general editorship of Drs. Opitz and Schmidt, 59 authors have contributed discussions of consistently high caliber, great thoroughness and attention to detail.

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