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Clinician, physiologist and teacher, Smith may be justly regarded as the father of modern neonatal medicine. He also appreciated the importance of prenatal medicine.
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Neonatología/historia , Boston , Historia del Siglo XX , Perinatología/historia , Atención PrenatalAsunto(s)
Infección Puerperal/historia , Infecciones Estreptocócicas/historia , Animales , Bacteriología/historia , Femenino , Historia del Siglo XX , Humanos , Ratones , Infección Puerperal/tratamiento farmacológico , Infecciones Estreptocócicas/tratamiento farmacológico , Sulfonamidas/historia , Sulfonamidas/uso terapéutico , Reino Unido , p-Aminoazobenceno/análogos & derivados , p-Aminoazobenceno/historia , p-Aminoazobenceno/uso terapéuticoRESUMEN
In 1944, Helen Taussig in collaboration with Alfred Blalock initiated the first surgical treatment of cyanotic congenital malformations of the heart. She may be regarded as the founder of paediatric cardiology.
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Cardiología/historia , Puente Cardíaco Derecho/historia , Cardiopatías Congénitas/historia , Pediatría/historia , Historia del Siglo XX , Arteria Pulmonar/cirugía , Arteria Subclavia/cirugía , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
By identifying rubella infection in early pregnancy as a cause of congenital malformations and disabilities, Gregg alerted the medical profession to the importance of the prenatal environment.
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Oftalmología/historia , Síndrome de Rubéola Congénita/historia , Australia , Catarata/congénito , Catarata/historia , Historia del Siglo XX , Humanos , Recién Nacido , Nueva Gales del Sur , Síndrome de Rubéola Congénita/embriologíaRESUMEN
Following in the footsteps of Billard and Ballantyne, Edith Potter founded from the 1930s onwards the modern subspecialty of perinatal pathology. Her name is eponymously linked with the facial characteristics of infants with bilateral renal agenesis.
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Patología/historia , Perinatología/historia , Chicago , Facies , Historia del Siglo XX , Humanos , Recién Nacido , Riñón/anomalíasRESUMEN
Doctor, teacher of anatomy, conversationalist, essayist, and poet, in 1843 Holmes combined his medical and literary skills in a masterly dissertation on the epidemiology and prevention of puerperal fever.
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Obstetricia/historia , Infección Puerperal/historia , Femenino , Historia del Siglo XIX , Humanos , Massachusetts , Infección Puerperal/prevención & controlRESUMEN
Besides developing the clinical and social care of children throughout Finland from 1920 onwards, the earlier research of Ylppö in Germany had laid the foundations world wide for scientific progress in the understanding and care of the premature infant.
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Pediatría/historia , Peso al Nacer , Ciencias de la Nutrición del Niño/historia , Desarrollo Fetal , Finlandia , Alemania , Edad Gestacional , Historia del Siglo XIX , Historia del Siglo XXRESUMEN
On behalf of Birmingham's Department of Public Health, Dr Crosse developed the Sorrento Premature Baby Unit in 1931 and pioneered the modern care of these small newborn infants in Britain.
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Cuidado del Lactante/historia , Recien Nacido Prematuro , Unidades de Cuidado Intensivo Neonatal/historia , Inglaterra/epidemiología , Historia del Siglo XX , Humanos , Cuidado del Lactante/métodos , Mortalidad Infantil , Recién Nacido , Retinopatía de la Prematuridad/historiaRESUMEN
Williams was the founder of academic obstetrics in the United States and with his textbook was the recognised leader of this discipline in America during the first 30 years of the 20th century.
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Obstetricia/historia , Baltimore , Cesárea/historia , Parto Obstétrico/historia , Femenino , Historia del Siglo XIX , Historia del Siglo XX , Humanos , Complicaciones del Trabajo de Parto/historia , Embarazo , Infección Puerperal/historiaRESUMEN
The textbook on the care of children published by these two Dublin physicians in 1836 was for many years regarded as an authoritative work on this subject.
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Cuidado del Niño/historia , Pediatría/historia , Libros de Texto como Asunto/historia , Niño , Historia del Siglo XIX , Humanos , IrlandaRESUMEN
Portal was the first doctor to give a good description of placenta praevia. His textbook contained interesting accounts of problem cases that he had encountered.
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Parto Obstétrico/historia , Partería/historia , Femenino , Historia del Siglo XVII , Historia del Siglo XVIII , Humanos , Paris , Placenta Previa/historia , Embarazo , Libros de Texto como Asunto/historiaRESUMEN
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.
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Pediatría/historia , Inglaterra , Historia del Siglo XIX , Historia del Siglo XX , Humanos , Estenosis Hipertrófica del Piloro/congénito , Estenosis Hipertrófica del Piloro/historia , Escorbuto/historia , Sífilis Congénita/historiaRESUMEN
Pinard was a pioneer of modern perinatal care. His provision of social care to deprived pregnant women progressed to a recognition of the value of medical care of mother and baby before as well as after birth. The creation of antenatal departments and wards in maternity hospitals followed. He also established abdominal obstetric palpation on sound principles.
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Obstetricia/historia , Femenino , Historia del Siglo XIX , Historia del Siglo XX , Humanos , Paris , Atención Perinatal/historia , Atención Posnatal/historia , Embarazo , Atención Prenatal/historiaRESUMEN
Underwood was the first physician-accoucheur to be appointed to the Royal College of Physicians in London. The same year, 1784, he published a textbook which did much to establish paediatrics as an emerging discipline in its own right. The book contains several original descriptions of childhood diseases.
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Pediatría/historia , Niño , Cardiopatías Congénitas/historia , Historia del Siglo XVIII , Historia del Siglo XIX , Humanos , Ictericia/historia , Londres , Mortinato , Libros de Texto como Asunto/historiaRESUMEN
Aristotle's studies encompassed the entire world of living things. Many of his descriptions and classifications remain sound today. Although not a physician, he exerted a profound influence on medicine for the next 2000 years.
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Personajes , Filosofía/historia , Ciencia/historia , Antigua Grecia , Historia Antigua , Humanos , Neonatología/historia , Obstetricia/historiaRESUMEN
A general physician with a special interest in nutrition and in children, Sir Robert Hutchison became a leader in medicine and paediatrics in the United Kingdom during the early decades of the 20th century. His wisdom and wit educated and amused successive generations of students and doctors.