Charpentier

réf. 1863 — SCARCE COMPLETE SET OF ILLUSTRATED REPORTS OF FIRST BRITISH SOCIETY FOR DISEASE IN CHILDREN. Eight hardcover volumes all published 9 inches tall red cloth binding covers with blindstamped rulings gilt title to spines top edge gilt. Many figures in text black/white and color plates throughout. Handstamp of British Medical Association Library to all volumes. Vol. I handstamp to front free endpaper "Presented to the Library by" F. Jaffrey Esq. FRCS inscribed. xxxvii 2 238 pp; Vol. II xxxii 2 310 pp; xxxvi 361 pp; xxxvi 2 378 pp; xxxviii 2 341 pp; xxxvii 2 324 pp; lx 2305 pp; lxi 504 pp. Spines darkened light soil to covers light browning to pages very good minus. The Reports chronicle a wide range of pediatric disease with many examples of the ravages of infectious diseases now prevented by immunization tumors and malformations including congenital heart disease. There is a long discussion of "sudden and unexpected death in children" "delayed chloroform poisoning" following anesthesia and paralysis treated with muscle grafting. Dr. Stephenson's expertise in ophthalmology is responsible for numerous illustrations of funduscopic images of various systemic diseases. This is remarkable as the first fundus camera was not developed until 1926. SYDNEY STEPHENSON 1860 - 1923 earned his medical degree from Edinburgh University became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He was an ophthalmologist at Queen's Hospital for Children and editor of The Ophthalmoscope a review that had become the most important periodical in British ophthalmology. He made seminal contributions in the study of ophthalmia neonatorum summarized in his book of that title. He founded with George Carpenter the Society for the Study of Disease in Children and when the amalgamation of multiple societies resulted in the formation of the Royal Society of Medicine it became one of the constituent sections. GEORGE ALFRED CARPENTER 1859 – 1910 was an English pediatrician who described the Carpenter Syndrome. He earned his M.D. in London and became physician to the Queen's Hospital for Children. In 1900 he founded with Sydney Stephenson the Society for the Study of Disease in Children the first British society of its kind and compiled eight volumes of Reports offered here. When the society was incorporated in the Royal Society of Medicine in 1908 and became the section for the study of disease in children he was elected its president. His major publications were on congenital malformations of the heart which was also the subject of his Wightman lecture delivered in 1909 before the section for the study of disease in children Royal Society of Medicine and published in the British Journal of Children's Diseases in 1909. In 1901 Carpenter published The Syphilis of Children in Everyday Practice. A short work Golden Rules for Diseases of Infants and Children published in 1901 reached a fourth and revised edition in 1911. PROVENANCE: FRANCIS JAFFREY 1861 - 1919 was raised in Australia and earned his M.D. at St. George's Hospital London. He was surgeon to the Belgrave Hospital for Children and consulting surgeon to the Cripples' Home in Kensington. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgoens he became dean of the Medical School of St. George's Hospital while he was also Lecturer in Anatomy. J. & A. Churchill hardcover books