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Author(s) -
Henry Dwight
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
headache: the journal of head and face pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.14
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1526-4610
pISSN - 0017-8748
DOI - 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2004.04185_5.x
Subject(s) - headaches , migraine , medicine , pediatrics , population , tension headache , epidemiology , cross sectional study , primary headache , demography , psychiatry , environmental health , pathology , sociology
Formeis editions of this American book were entitled Diseases of Infants and Children but with this edition the name has been changed to Pediatrics. The authors define pediatrics as ' the study of normal growth and development both physical and mental, the phenomena of metabolism and nutrition which promote normality and the prevention of pathological stateswhile it also retains its original function of the study and treatment of disease in children. It will be seen, therefore, that the book covers a very wide field. The first section is devoted to growth and development, beginning with foetal development and antenatal influences; the next sections to the newly-born infant, the sick child and infant feeding. Dr. Royster recommends lactic acid whole milk as the best artificial food for infants. The various food and milk preparations described in this section are American brands and perhaps are not so well known or so easily obtainable in India as the corresponding European preparations. Tables of foods recommended for young children by the American Child Health Association are given. It is rather surprising-to find bacon included in the breakfast menu from 12 months onwards. The remaining sections of the book deal with the diseases of childhood, including the exanthemata, commoner surgical diseases, and diseases of the eye, ear and skin. The scheme of the book is very ambitious and the effort to make one volume deal with so much has not been altogether successful. This is particularly so in the first section where the subject is dealt with in so general a manner as not to be of much practical use. However, the fact that the first edition appeared in 1909 and that this is the seventh denotes the general usefulness and soundness of this volume.