THE HISTORY OF PAEDIATRICS by STILL GEORGE FREDERIC:

London: Dawsons, 1965. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 526 pages. In Very good minus condition. Green spine with gilt lettering. Full binding in green cloth. Boards show light shelf wear, minor scuffing and slight sunning to spine. Text block has modest age-toning to edges. Note: Shelved in Netdesk Column B, ND-B. 1374677. FP New Rockville Stock.

Dawsons of Pall Mall. Good with no dust jacket. 1965. Reprint. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in green cloth with gilt titles, cloth has minor rubbing at corners and is faded at the spine, no inscriptions. xviii + 526 pages, illustrations on plates & in the text, appendices, index .

London: Oxford University Press, 1931. Pages clean and bright, light foxing on endpapers, spotting on closed edges, edge wear and rubbing to boards but otherwise firm.. Hard. Good. 8vo.

London: College of Pediatrics and Child Health, 1996. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper. 526 pages. Green marbelized cover.

London: Oxford University Press, 1931. Hardcover. Very good. xviii, 526 p. 23 cm. Over 60 b&w plates. Green cloth hardcover. Some spotting to cloth. A little foxing and thumbing to first pages. Traces the study of paediatrics from the Classical Greek and Roman period through the Middle Ages and up to the end of the 18th century. Special mention of rickets, diphtheria, smallpox, congenital malformations, teething, and vaccination.

Oxford University Press. London : Humphrey Milford, 1931 Original green cloth, 8vo, 23 x 16cm, xviii, 525 pp, 22 plates, 43 full page text illustrations and facsimiles. With a dedication inscription from the author to Sir Thomas Barlow, in clear ink hand on front free endpaper. As a pioneer of full time paediatrics, as the first professor in this new discipline, and as inaugural president of the British Paediatric Association, Still has been called with justice the father of British paediatrics. From Cambridge he studied medicine at Guy's Hospital in London, qualifying in 1893. Coming under the influence of Sir James Goodhart, Still studied children's diseases at Guy's and at the Hospital for Sick Children. In 1899 Kings College Hospital established a special department for the diseases of childhood (the first hospital in the United Kingdom to do so), and Still was appointed physician to take charge of it. Seven years later he was promoted honorary professor of the diseases of children,… Read More