TY - JOUR T1 - George Armstrong MD (1719–1789) and his Dispensary for the Infant Poor JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition JO - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed SP - F228 LP - F231 DO - 10.1136/fn.87.3.F228 VL - 87 IS - 3 AU - P M Dunn Y1 - 2002/11/01 UR - http://fn.bmj.com/content/87/3/F228.abstract N2 - George Armstrong published one of the first textbooks on children’s diseases in 1767 and two years later opened in London the first dispensary/hospital in the world for sick children. He introduced clinical teaching and may be regarded as the founder of paediatrics and child health in Great Britain. ER -