The diseases of children and their remedies. By the late . . . , first physician to his Swedish Majesty, and Knight of the Polar Star; translated into English by Andrew Sparrman, M. D.

London:: Printed for T. Cadell, 1776., 1776. 22 cm. 8vo. viii, 364, [16] pp. Index; some spotting or browning, first and last leaves with a few Japanese-paper backing for strength. Modern quarter burgundy goatskin morocco backed marbled boards, gilt-stamped cloth spine label, new endsheets. Title inscribed in an early hand, abbreviated: "Ex Libris Societes Medicae Edinensis" [Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh]. Bookplate of Frederick A. Frye. Very good. First English translation, by Andrew (Anders) Sparrman (1748-1820). The work was first published in Swedish as, Underrättelser om barn-sjukdomar och deras botemedel, Stockholm, 1764. "It contains the first description of the use of diluted milk in infant feeding as well as a wealth of other interesting instructions for feeding and care of infants." Nutrition Reviews, Volume 35, Issue 11, November 1977, p. 317. / Swedish physician Nils Rosen von Rosenstein (1706-1773) is considered the founder of modern pediatrics and his book the first modern textbook on the subject. / Rosen von Rosenstein offers here twenty-eight chapters on children's diseases. He covers: nurses, care of the newborn, pneumonia, dental issues, teething, epilepsy, diarrhea, small-pox and its inoculation, measles, scarlet fever, vomiting, coughing, whooping cough, jaundice, agues, worms, Rickets, dropsy, itching or scabs, diseases involving the throat & wind-pipe, transferred infections (from nurses, not doctors!), and finally" "vermin" (lice I presume). See: Garrison and Morton 6323; Bo Vahlquist, "Anders Sparrman and his Translation of Rosen Von Rosenstein's Textbook on Children's Diseases During Captain Cook's Expedition to the Antarctic Regions and Round the World (1772–1775) ", Acta Paediatrica, Volume 66, Issue 3, May 1977. Pages 269-272. Also: Acta Paediatrica, Supplement 156, 1964, p. 57; Dallas, John. "Classics of Child Care". Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. July 2011.