Growth, differentiation, and disease; Caldwell Lecture, 1952
Neuhauser, E.B.D.
American Journal of Roentgenology Radium Therapy and Nuclear Medicine 69(5): 723-737
1953
ISSN/ISBN: 0002-9580 PMID: 13050834 Document Number: 9057
In 1910 the first textbook of Pediatric Radiology, based upon an experience of over twenty-three hundred patients, was written by Thomas Morgan Rotch12 (Fig. 22). Then for thirty-five years there ensued what Doctor Caffey has called "the great pediatric literary hypoplasia," which his text has done much to rectify. This field is still relatively unexplored. There is lack of appreciation of its significance by the majority of physicians. Many are prone to react as did Dr. Soma Weiss, Professor of Medicine at Harvard, when called in consultation to examine an infant patient, his only remark was, "Yes, we see that condition in humans too." We trust that this is now an attitude of the past. To a great extent the pathogenesis of disease can be elucidated only by a study of the conceptus and the genetic background, and only by a thorough examination of the developing child in relation to his inheritance and to his environment. This is not work completed; it is the challenge of Pediatric Radiology for the future.
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