Handbuch zur Erkenntniss und Heilung der Kinderkrankheiten. Zwei Theile in einem Bande. (2 volumes in 1). by HENKE, Adolph Christian Heinrich (1775-1843) - 1830

Wien:: Rich. Lechner, 1830., 1830. 8vo. XVI, 480 pp. Some staining on title. Original printed wrappers, all deckle edges; neatly rebacked preserving original spine. Very good. Third edition. ?Henke, a famous medical jurisconsult of Erlangen, published a Handbook of Pediatrics (1809), which reached its fourth edition in 1837. . .? - Abt. / Henke, a German pharmacist, studied at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig and at the University of Helmstedt. He was a pioneering figure of forensic medicine. He taught therapy at the National Clinic of the Royal Bavarian University of Erlangen. He was a member of the board of directors and of various learned societies in Germany, Russia, and Switzerland. With this text he treats the health and illnesses of children. Caring for and the treatment of the newborn child, nutrition after being breast fed, diet, physical education of the young, diseases relating to children, educational defects and infirmities of children immediately after birth, hot rashes, inflammations, spasmodic disease, and more. CONTENTS: Einleitung; I. Uber zweckmAssige Pflege und Behandlung des neugebornen Kindes; II. Uber die ErnAhrung des Kindes ohne die Brust der Mutter; III. Uber DiAtetik und physische Erziehung der Kinder in den ersten Lebensjahren; IV. Von den Krankheiten, Bildungsfehlern und Gebrechen der Kinder unmittelbar nach der Geburt; V. Allgemeine und ortliche, dem fruhesten Kindesalter eigenthumliche Krankheiten; VI. Von den hitzigen Ausschlags-Krankheiten; VII. Innere Entzundungen bei Kindern; VIII. Krampfhafte Krankheiten der Brustorgane bei Kindern; IX. Krankheiten der Reproduktion bei Kindern. REFERENCES: Abt-Garrison, History of pediatrics, p. 85; Grulee 1118-9 [1820, 1821 editions].