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When the physicians Richard Evanson and Henry Maunsell prepared the fifth edition of their highly successful Practical Treatise on the Management and Diseases of Children in 1847, they faced a dilemma. As they explained towards the beginning of their book, they had originally aimed to produce a text ‘expressly adapted for the use of the members of the Medical Profession’. But they had been surprised by the popularity of their book.
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Richard T. Evanson and Henry Maunsell, A Practical Treatise on the Management and Diseases of Children, 5th rev. edn (Dublin: Fannin, 1847), p. 2.
See Charles West, Lectures on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood, 5th edn (London: Longman, 1865).
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Boehm, K. (2013). Hothouse Children: Dombey and Son and Popular Medical Child Health Manuals. In: Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137362506_3
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