Title: The sick child in early modern England, 1580-1720
Description: Illness in childhood was common in early modern England. Hannah Newton asks how sick children were perceived and treated by doctors and laypeople, examines the family's experience, and takes the original perspective of sick children themselves.
Subjects: Sick children, Pediatrics, Children, Care, Health and hygiene, History, Children, health and hygiene, Medical care, great britain, Children, great britain, Child Care, Child Health Services, Child Welfare, History, 16th Century, History, 17th Century, History, 18th Century
Places: England
Time periods: 17th century