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Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition 2006;91:F150-F152; doi:10.1136/adc.2005.074526
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PERINATAL LESSONS FROM THE PAST

Michael Underwood, MD (1737–1820): physician-accoucheur of London

P M Dunn

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Professor Dunn
Department of Child Health, University of Bristol, Southmead Hospital, Southmead, Bristol BS10 5BN, UK; P.M.Dunn{at}bristol.ac.uk

ABSTRACT

Underwood was the first physician-accoucheur to be appointed to the Royal College of Physicians in London. The same year, 1784, he published a textbook which did much to establish paediatrics as an emerging discipline in its own right. The book contains several original descriptions of childhood diseases.

Keywords: history; obstetrics


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