"Pediatrics is concerned with the
health of infants, children and adolescents, their growth and
development, and their opportunity to achieve full potential as
adults." (Richard E.Behrman in Nelson's Textbook of Pediatrics)
Pediatrics became a medical specialty in the mid-19th
century. Before that time the care and treatment of childhood
diseases was included within such areas as general medicine and
obstetrics (and midwifery).
The first pediatric monograph written in the U.S. was by Charles
Caldwell who received his medical degree from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1796. His doctoral thesis was on diseases of
childhood associated with fever.
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