Mental Affections of Childhood and Youth (Classics in Developmental Medicine (Mac Keith Press))
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 28, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780521413305
Subjects: Paediatric medicine; Developmental Disabilities; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Pediatrics; Medical / Pediatrics
First sentence: WHEN you, sir, and your colleagues on the Council of the Medical Society of London, did me the honour to request me to deliver the Lettsomian Lectures on Medicine for this year, I bethought myself that mental deviations in childhood and youth had never been the subject of a disquisition from this chair, and that probably a period of nearly thirty years spent among children with various phases of mental affection might entitle me to bring before the members of this Society material which, from the nature of the subject, can only be accumulated by a few.