Friday 27 April 2018

Pediatrics in USA

Hyderabad, India - The Pediatric specially was officially introduced in the USA in 1861 by German Doctor Abraham Jacobi.

Dr. Jacobi was a German Pediatrician is considered to be the ‘Father of American Pediatrics’. He shifted to New York in 1853 and set-up the pediatrics chair at the New York Medical College in1861 organized several pediatric societies began publication of several Pediatric Journals and developed children departments in several New York hospitals. 

Along with Jacobi pioneers such as Luther Emmett Holt (1855-1924) in New York Forsyth Miens (1818-1882) in Philadelphia and William Mckim.

The American Academy of Pediatrics Academy of Pediatrics was set-up in 1930 by a group of 35 Pediatricians to promote positive in care given to children.

They enmousurged follow doctors to explore specialized treatments rather than treating babies and children as ‘miniature adults”.

The writings of these men emphasized that children have a unique physiology and sadistically different mental and physical development. The first separate Pediatrics hospital was set-up in Philadelphia in 1855.

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