This history of the evolution of pediatrics from the beginning
of recorded civilization examines chronologically the medical and
societal antecedents of current child care. Although the term
pediatrics is modern, the book explores the antecedents that
facilitated the evolution of pediatric care as a separate
discipline and a unique science. These antecedents include ancient
manuscripts and the writings of acknowledged medical classicists,
and the works of physicians in the East who recorded the medicine
of the ancients, their own original theories, clinical
observations, and experience, and exported their wisdom to the
West.
The book's point of view demonstrates that healers from the
beginning of recorded time understood the unique physiology of the
infant and the distinct nutritional and medical needs of the
growing child. Despite this recognition, centuries of poorly
applied medical principles prevailed in the general population as
adjuncts to societal conditions that included war, pestilence,
ignorance of the pathophysiology of disease, and the exploitation
of labor. In this milieu, suffering was universal. Pediatrics came
into its own when richer, more stable societies had the time,
energy, and resources to provide for the most vulnerable of their
subjects. Motives included economic self-interest as well as
altruistic demand for social reform.
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