A History of Pediatrics Vol. Concepts central to modern pediatrics are surprisingly ancient. The perception of the child as physiologically distinct engendering a distinct medical specialty appears first in India and in China, where the first known text of pediatric medicine was written circa AD 910, predating Europe by 500 years.
Nothing is concealed by falsehood, reserve, or false modesty. . . .
The modern clinician puzzled by parents' attribution of myriad symptoms to teething will be enlightened by this book. Medical therapy, including hare's brains, was applied and surgical therapy lancing the gums was employed, often repeatedly. As late as 1910 more than 1600 deaths in England were ascribed to teething. Little wonder, then, that we still hear echoes in the examining room today. But lett us now take a Little Care to Quiet the Children.