| Descript |
xix, 254 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Introduction: contexts of childhood illness in Ireland / Alice Mauger and Anne Mac Lellan -- Children's smallpox and inoculation procedures in eighteenth-century Ireland / Gabriella Ashford -- Children's hospital services in Victorian Dublin: the role of the institution for the diseases of children (1822-1886) / Conor Ward -- The gentle application of mercury: treatment of children at the Westmoreland lock hospital, Dublin, in the mid-nineteenth century / Jean M. Walker -- Childhood ophthalmia in Irish workhouses, 1849-1861 / Philomena Gorey -- Children and the falling sickness, Ireland, 1850-1904 / June Cooper -- Constructing 'moral hospitals': improving bodies and minds in Irish reformatories and industrial schools, c. 1851-1890 / Ian Miller -- The penny test: tuberculin testing and paediatric practice in Ireland, 1900-1960 / Anne Mac Lellan -- Rickets and Irish children: Dr Ella Webb and the early work of the Children's Sunshine Home, 1925-1946 / Laura Kelly -- Through the eyes of a child: 'Spanish' influenza remembered by survivors / Ida Milne -- 'And so to bed': bone and joint tuberculosis in children in Ireland, 1920-1950 / Susan Kelly |
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Child health services -- Ireland -- History
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Medical care -- Ireland -- History
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Medical policy -- Ireland -- History
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Children -- Diseases -- Ireland
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| Alt Author |
Mac Lellan, Anne
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Mauger, Alice
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