Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1810

FRéDéRIC RILLIET (1814-1861) A treatise on the pneumonia of children. A. Waldie 1839 100 pp. 22 cm.

Rilliet, a native of Geneva, completed his medical studies at Paris in 1840 with a dissertation on typhoid fever in children. He later returned to Geneva, where he reported on the local epidemics of measles, mumps, and cholera. Sometime before graduation, he became interested in pediatrics, along with his friend Barthez, a Paris graduate of 1839. Together they began their important Traité clinique et pratique des maladies des enfants, which, after seven years' work, was completed in 1843 (see No. 1811). It was this work on infantile pneumonia that ultimately led to the publication of their comprehensive and popular work on pediatric diseases. They decided to begin with a treatise on pneumonia because "among the diseases of this age, those of the chest are, without doubt, both the most important, and the most numerous" (Preface, p. [v]). First published at Paris in 1838, the work has here been translated by Samuel Parkman (1816-1854), a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society.

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