1920's Medicine and Health | The Care and Feeding of Children

Guidebook

By: L. Emmett Holt

Date: 1922

Source: Holt, L. Emmett. The Care and Feeding of Children: A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1922, xii, 186–187, 192–193, 214–215.

About the Author: L. Emmett Holt (1855–1924) was best known for his work in pediatrics. Twice president of the American Pediatric Society, he is credited with broadening preventative pediatrics to include health education, leading to a sharp decrease in infant mortality in New York City between 1916 and 1920. He was president of both the Child Health Organization and the Child Hygiene Association, which he successfully merged into the American Child Health Association. In 1921 he resigned as Carpentier Professor of Diseases of Children at Columbia University, and three years later he set out for Peking to discuss children's health with...