476 PEDIATRICS 



changes have taken place in the curriculum of most of the large 

 medical schools throughout the world. Following as I have the 

 growth of this important subject for the past twenty years I am con- 

 vinced that the same time, care, and patient research should be 

 given to the study of pediatrics as to any other important branch of 

 medicine. The student should first acquire a complete knowledge of 

 the anatomy, physiology, and progressive development of the new- 

 born human being in the stages of infancy, during the first year, and 

 the changes from infancy to early childhood in the second year, and 

 the various changes so significant in middle and later childhood. I 

 believe that a thorough knowledge of the infant and child in health 

 is a prerequisite to the proper appreciation of the conditions which 

 occur in that child in sickness and for the possibility of the intelli- 

 gent treatment of such conditions. 



The great r61e which the sensitive, ill-developed, and unstable 

 nervous system plays in its many manifestations both in health and 

 disease shows us unquestionably how only by untiring application, 

 patience, and thought can we hope to produce such great results in 

 the treatment of the young as have already been accomplished in 

 that of adults. 



