Classic Books and Articles (Alphabetical)

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Introduction to Foundational Works in Newborn Care and Puericulture

The Incubator and Gavage at the Paris Maternité: Four Founding Papers, 1883–1898

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Classic Articles in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine (Alphabetical)

• AAP Historical Archives Advisory Committee: American Pediatrics: Milestones at the Millenium  from Pediatrics, June, 2001.
• AAP Perinatal Section Ad Hoc Committee on Perinatal History: Martin Couney’s Story Revisited, 1997. Reproduced by permission of Pediatrics.
• Administration générale de l’Assistance publique à Paris, Hôpital de la Maternité, 1903. Scanned version. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / National Library of France.
• Adriance, Vanderpoel: Premature Infants, 1901.
• Allin, Frank W.: The Baby-Tents of Chicago, 1911.
• Annan, R.: Case of a Child Born Betwixt the End of the Sixth and Middle of the Seventh Month and Brought Up, 1848.
• Apgar, Virginia: A Proposal for a New Method of Evaluation of the Newborn Infant, 1953.
• Arrault: Abrégé Historique de l’Etablissement de l’Hôpital des Enfans-Trouvés , 1746.
• Auvard, A.: De La Couveuse Pour Enfants, 1883.  (French)
• Auvard, A.: Nouvelle Couveuse Pour Enfants, Arch. de Tocologie, 1889.  
• Auvard, A.: Nouveau modèle de couveuse pour enfants, Arch. de Tocologie, 1890.
• Avery, Mary Ellen and Mead, Jere: Surface properties in relation to atelectasis and hyaline membrane disease, 1959.
• Bachoué, L.: Les Couveuses pour Enfants a la Maternité, L’Illustration Journal Universel, Paris, January 2, 1897
• Baines, M. A.: Excessive Infant-Mortality: How Can It Be Stayed?, 1862.
• Ballantyne, J. W.: The Problem of the Premature Infant, 1902.
• Ballantyne, J. W.: Pierre Budin, from Transactions of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society, November 13, 1907. Source: Google Books.
• Bar, Paul: Le Professeur S. Tarnier, 1828-1897, 1897. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / National Library of France.
• Bartlett, John: The Warming-Crib (scanned original), The Warming Crib (transcribed version), Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner, May 1887.
• Baumes, Thimotée: Traité de l’Ictère ou Jaunisse des Enfants de Naissance [Treatise on Icterus or Jaundice of the Newborn] , 1806.
• Bettmann, Henry W.: Premature Labor and the New-Born Child, 1892.
• Bizzell, W. D.: Prolonged Asphyxia in the New-Born Infant, 1885.
• Blacker, G. F.: The Care and Feeding of Premature Infants, 1898.
• Blackfan, Kenneth D.: Apparatus for Collecting Infants’ Blood for the Wassermann Reaction, 1912.
• Bonnaire: Des Inhalations d’Oxygène chez les Nouveau-Nés [Inhalations of Oxygen by the New-Born] , Journal de Médecine de Paris, pp. 312-314, June 28, 1891.
• Brandt, J. Egerton: The Children’s Incubator, 1895.
• Brisbane, Arthur: The Incubator Baby and Niagara Falls, 1901.
• Brown, Alan and George, Ruggles: The Care and Feeding of the Premature Infant, 1917.
• Brown, Edward J.: A New Baby Incubator, 1892.
• Budin, Pierre: Le Professeur Tarnier , Le Progrès Médical Paris, pp. 289-293, May 7, 1898.
• Budin, Pierre: Les Consultations de Nourrisons, 1905. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / National Library of France.
  • English summary and impact analysis
• Budin, Pierre: La Mortalité Infantile dans les Bouches-du-Rhone, 1907. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / National Library of France.
• Budin, Pierre: De l’Embryotomie sur l’Enfant Vivant, Source: gallica.bnf.fr / National Library of France. 1906.
• Budin, Pierre: Étude sur la Mortalité de la Première Enfance, 1904. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / National Library of France.
• Budin, Pierre: Service des Enfants Débiles a la Maternité, Année 1895-1897, 1896-1899. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / National Library of France.
• Budin, Pierre: Statistique de la Maternité de Paris, 1898. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / National Library of France.
• Budin, Pierre: La Mortalité Infantile de 0 à 1 an, 1903. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / National Library of France.
• Budin, Pierre: Statistique de la Maternité de Paris, du 1er janvier 1895 au 28 février 1898, 1898. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / National Library of France.
• Budin, Pierre: De la puériculture après la naissance, 1900. 10th Congrès International d’Hygiène et Démographie, Paris. Source: Cnum.
  • English summary
• Budin, Pierre: Traitement prophylactique de l’ophtalmie des nouveaux-nés, par le nitrate d’argent en solution faible, à 1 pour 150, 1895. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / National Library of France.
• Budin, Pierre: Des Consultations de nourrissons, leurs résultats, from Bulletin de l’Académie Nationale de Médicine, June 12, 1906. Source: Gallica
• Budin, Pierre: Service des enfants débiles à la maternité. Année 1895. Source: Gallica
• Budin, Pierre: Service des enfants débiles à la maternité. Année 1896-1897. Source: Gallica
• Cameron, Glenhill: Quick, Another Baby’s Here!, Colliers, 1950.
• Caron, A.: Introduction a la Puériculture et l’Hygiène de la Première Enfance, 1865. Source: Google Books.
• Chapin, H. D.: The Rearing of Premature Children by Means of Incubators, 1900.
• Chapple, Charles C.: An Incubator for Infants, 1938.
• Chavasse, Pye Henry: Advice to a mother on the management of her children and on the treatment on the moment of some of their more pressing illnesses and accidents, 1880.
• Ciaudo, Joseph: La Maternité “Lion de Nice” pour enfants nés avant terme ou débiles, 1895. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / National Library of France.
• Coffin, A. I.: Treatment of the Child, from Treatise on Midwifery, 1878.
• Colrat, Paul. “Nouvelle couveuse pour enfants.” Société des Sciences médicales de Lyon, séances de juillet 1896. In Lyon Médical, 28e année, tome LXXXIII (6 September 1896): 415–417. Source: Gallica (BnF):
• Conyers, Richard: De Morbis Infantum , 1729.
• Cragin, Edwin B.: The Sloane Hospital Incubator, 1914.
• Crandall, Floyd M: Hospitalism, 1897.
• Credé, Carl Siegmund Franz: Ueber Erwärmungsgeräthe für frühgeborene und schwächliche kleine Kinder, Archiv für Gynäkologie 24:128-147, 1884. [scan of original article in German] Source: Google Books.
• Credé, Carl Siegmund Franz: Ueber Erwärmungsgeräthe für frühgeborene und schwächliche kleine Kinder [Concerning warming devices for prematures and feeble tiny children], Archiv für Gynäkologie 24:128-147, 1884. German with English translation, transcribed from the scanned article for readability.
• Credé, Carl Siegmund Franz: Die Verhütung der Ausgenentzuendung der Neugeborenen [The prevention of inflammation of the newborn], 1881. 
• Darwall, John: Plain Instructions for the Management of Infants, 1830.
• Davis, John Bunnell: A Cursory Inquiry Into Some of the Principal Causes of Mortality Among Children, 1817.
• De Lee, Joseph B.: Asphyxia Neonatorum: Causation and Treatment, 1897.
• De Lee, Joseph B.: Infant Incubation, with the Presentation of a New Incubator and a Description of the System at the Chicago Lying-In Hospital, 1902.
• Denucé, Jean-Louis-Paul: Berceau incubateur pour les enfants nés avant terme [Incubating cradle for children born before term], Journal de Médicine de Bordeaux, December, 1857. With English translation.
• Denucé, Jean-Louis-Paul: Berceau incubateur pour les enfants nés avant terme [Incubating cradle for children born before term], Journal de Médicine de Bordeaux, December, 1857.  (scanned original)
• Diffre, Dr.: Présentation de la Couveuse-Berceau, 1898. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / National Library of France.
• Diffre, Dr.: Nouveau Système de Couveuse pour les Nouveau-Nés, 1890. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / National Library of France.
• Diffre, Dr.: “Les Couveuses d’Enfants”
  • Part 1, Nouveau Montpellier Medical, May 9, 1896 Source: retronews.fr
  • Part 2, Nouveau Montpellier Medical, May 15, 1896 Source: retronews.fr
  • English summary
• Dobbs, R.H. and Cremer, R. J.: Phototherapy, 1975.
• von Doepp, Ph.: Bemerkungen über einige Krankheiten der Säuglinge [Remarks about several illnesses of babies] , 1835.
• Down, J. Langdon H.: Observations on an Ethnic Classification of Idiots, 1866.
• Dubowitz, Lilly et al: Clinical Assessment of Gestational Age in the Newborn, 1970. 
• Dufour, Leon: Comment on crée une Goutte de lait, pamphlet,1902. Source: Biblioteca Online of the Fundação Aboim Sande Lemos, Lisbon
• Dufour, Leon: À Fécamp : quarante ans de lutte contre la mortalité infantile, 1881–1921. La Goutte de lait, 1894–1921. Résultats. La Presse médicale, 1921. Source: BIU Santé.
• Dufour, Leon: La diphtérie à Fécamp: contribution à l’hygiène des villes, 1888. Source: Gallica.
• Durham, Roger: Notes on the Care of Premature Infants, 1912.
• Editors, Maternal and Child Welfare, London: Pierre Budin and His Work, 1918.
• Editors, Buffalo Medical Journal: Some Medical Aspects of the Pan-American Exposition: Infant Incubators, 1901.
• Editors, Illustrated London News, Hearson’s Thermostatic Nurse, April 12, 1894.
• Editors, Le Monde Illustré, Paris: Les nouvelles couveuses pour enfants [The new incubators for infants], 1884.
• Editors, Occidental Medical Times, Mme. Henri’s Couveuse Department at the Paris Maternité, 1894.
• Editors, Pediatrics: Exhibit of Infant Incubators at the Pan-American Exhibition, 1901.
• Editors, Pediatrics: Exhibit of Infant Incubators at the Pan-American Exposition, 1901.
• Editors, Scientific American: Baby Incubators at the Pan-American Exposition, 1901.
• Editors, Scientific American: Artificial Mother for Infants, 1888.
• Editors, The Illustrated London News: Incubators for Infants, 1884.
• Editors, The Lancet: The Couvreuse, or Mechanical Nurse, 1883.
• Editors, The Lancet: The Victorian Era Exhibition at Earl’s Court, 1897.
• Editors, The Lancet: The Use of Incubators for Infants, 1897.
• Editors, The Lancet: The Danger of Making a Public Show of Incubators for Babies, 1898.
• Editors, The Lancet: Immature Infants in France, January 16, 1897, page 196.
• Editors, The Literary Digest: Lion Incubators, 1898.
• Editors, The Manufacturer and Builder: Artificial Child Incubation, 1883.
• Editors, The New York Times: A Wee Child in an Incubator, 1891.
• Editors, The Family Circle, Beginner’s Luck (Martin Couney at the NY World’s Fair), 1939
• Editors, Gazette Médicale de Paris: Les Couveuses pour Enfants, Vol. 11 No. 3, 1900.
• Editors, Journal de l’Association Medicale Mutuelle: Inauguration de la Fondation P. Budin, June 10, 1909. Source: Gallica
• Editors, Official Report of the Berlin Trade Exhibition in 1896 (Berlin und seine Arbeit – Amtlicher Bericht der Berliner Gewerbe-Ausstellung 1896). Bericht ǔber die Couveuse (Lion) oder Kinderbrutanstalt” [Report about the Lion Incubator]
  • English Translation
• Editors, Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, Die „Kinderbrutanstalt“ auf der Berliner Gewerbe-Ausstellung, October 11, 1896.
• Énault, Louis: “La Maternité Lion,” Journal of the Bordeaux Exposition,1895
• Entz, Mlle.: Consultations de Nourrissons, thesis, 1900
• Eustache, G.: Une Nouvelle Couveuse pour Enfants Nouveau-Nés (A New Incubator for Newborn Infants), 1885. As published in Journal des Sciences Médicales de Lille. (scanned pages)
• Eustache, G.: Une Nouvelle Couveuse pour Enfants Nouveau-Nés , 1884. As published as an offprint by Societe Industrielle du Nord de la France. Source: Gallica.fr / National Library of France. 
• Flagg, Paluel J.: Treatment of Asphyxia in the New-Born, 1928.
• Fullerton, Anna M.: The Ailments of Early Infancy, chapter 11 of A Handbook of Obstetrical Nursing, 1891. Source: Library of Congress.
• Furst, L.: Über Wärmevorrichtungen für zu früh geborene oder lebensschwache Kinder, 1887.
• Gautier, A.: Décès de M. P. Budin [The Death of Professor Budin], 1907.
• Gignoux, Jean: Des avantages au point de vue hospitalier de la chambre couveuse, installée a la Charité de Lyon, Thèse de médecine. Lyon: A. Rey, imprimeur de la Faculté de médecine, 1898. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / National Library of France. 
• Gleich, Morris: The Premature Infant – Part 1, Archives of Pediatrics, 1942.
• Gluck, Louis: Perspectives in Perinatology, Present and Future, 1974
• Gould, George M. and Pyle, Walter L.: Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine, Chapter 4, “Prolificity,” 1900.
• Graham, Edwin E.: Infant Mortality, 1908.
• Green, Robert M. and Swift, John B.: Hemorrhagic Disease of the Newborn, 1911.
• Gross, Robert E., and Hubbard, John P.: Surgical Ligation of a Patent Ductus Arteriosus, 1939.
• Harris, Walter: De Morbis Acutis Infantum, 1689 (this printing is from 1720, Latin version) Source: Wellcome Collection.
• Harris, Walter: De Morbis Acutis Infantum, translated into English as An Exact Inquiry into the Diseases of Infants by William Cockburn in 1693, this printing is from 1694. Source: Internet Archive.
• Halstead, Murat: See the Incubator Babies, 1904.
• Helmholz, Henry F.: The Longitudinal Sinus as the Place of Preference in Infancy for Intravenous Aspirations and Injections, Including Transfusion, 1915.
• Henderson, Yandell: The Prevention and Treatment of Asphyxia in the New-Born, 1928.
• Hendrick, Burton J.: Solving the Problem of Infant Mortality, 1917.
• Henry, M.: Fondation du pavilion des enfantes débiles à la Maternité de Paris [Foundation of the Pavilion of Sick Infants at the Maternity of Paris] , Revue des Maladies de l’Enfance, tome XVI, 1898, pp. 142–154. (French) Source: Google Books.
• Henry, M.: Fondation du pavilion des enfantes débiles à la Maternité de Paris [Foundation of the Pavilion of Sick Infants at the Maternity of Paris] , Revue des Maladies de l’Enfance, tome XVI, 1898, pp. 142–154. (English translation)
• Hess, Julius H.: A Study of the Caloric Needs of Premature Infants, 1911.
• Hess, Julius H.: An Electric-Heated Water-Jacketed Infant Incubator and Bed, 1915.
• Hess, Julius H.: Premature and Congenitally Diseased Infants, 1922. Scanned book. Source: Google Books.
• Hess, Julius H: Infant Feeding: A Handbook for the Practitioner, 1924.
• Hess, Julius H.: Heated Bed for Transportation of Premature Infants, 1923.
• Hess, Julius H.: Oxygen Unit for Premature and Very Young Infants, 1934.
• Hess, Julius H.: Chicago Plan for Care of Premature Infants, 1951.
• Hess, Julius H.: Experiences Gained in a Thirty-Year Study of Prematurely Born Infants, 1953.
• Holt, L. Emmett: The Scope and Limitations of Hospitals for Infants, 1898.
• Holt, L. Emmett: Infant Mortality, Ancient and Modern, An Historical Sketch, 1913.
• Huenekens, E. J.: Care of the New-Born in the First Weeks of Life, 1923.
• Hutinel, P. and Delestre, M.: Les Couveuses aux Enfants-Assistés, part 1. Annales de Médecine et Chirurgie Infantiles, Tome III, 1899. Source: Google Books.
• Hutinel, P. and Delestre, M.: Les Couveuses aux Enfants-Assistés, part 2. Annales de Médecine et Chirurgie Infantiles, Tome III, 1899. Source: Google Books.
  • English summary
• Jacobi, Abraham: The Best Means of Combating Infant Mortality, 1912.
• Jacobi, Abraham: Infant Feeding – A Review, 1896.
• Jennings, O.: An Improved System of Incubators, 1896.
• Keating, John M.: Infant Feeding, 1884.
• Knapp, Ludwig: Der Scheintod der Neugeborenen, 1898.
• La Fetra, L. E.: The Hospital Care of Premature Infants, 1916.
• La Huerta, R. Mainar: Incubadoras para Criaturas [Maternité Lion in Barcelona], 1902.
• Lambert, Samuel W.: Melaena Neonatorum with Report of a Case Cured by Transfusion, 1908.
• Liebling, A. J.: Patron of the Preemies, 1939. Reprinted by the permission of Russell & Volkening as agents for the author. Copyright © 1939 by A. J. Liebling, copyright renewed 1967 by Norma Stonehill.
• Little, W. J.: On the Influence of Abnormal Parturition, Difficult Labours, Premature Birth, and Asphyxia Neonatorum, on the Mental and Physical Condition of the Child, Especially in Relation to Deformities, 1861.
• Litzenberg, Jennings C.: The Care of Premature Infants, with Special Reference to the Use of Home-Made Incubators, 1908.
• Losty, Margaret A. et al: A Transport Service for Premature Babies in New York City, American Journal of Nursing, 1950. 
• Lyons, John A.: Incubators and Milk Laboratory Feeding, 1897.
• M. O. H.: “The Incubator Baby,” Nursing Times, November 10, 1906.
• Maillart, Hector: “Quelques Réflexions sur le Fonctionnement et les Résultats des Couveuses Lion pendant l’Exposition Nationale,” Revue Médicale de La Suisse Romande, 1896.
• Marfan, A. (Editor): Le Nourrisson, Revue d’Hygiéne et de Pathologie de las Premiér Enfance, 1924
• Maygrier, Charles: Les consultations des nourrissons, 1903. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / National Library of France. (French) 
• McClanahan, H. M.: Management of Delicate and Premature Infants in the Home, 1914.
• Minot, Francis: On Hemorrhage from the Umbilicus in New-born Infants, with an Analysis of Forty-six Cases, 1852.
• de Montgolfier, Casati: Enfants Prématurés – Leur puériculture par des couveuses publiques, 1913.
• Morse, John Lovett: A Study of the Caloric Needs of Premature Infants, 1904.
• Morse, John Lovett: The Care and Feeding of Premature Infants, 1905.
• O’Brien, H.R. and Murphy, Marion I.: A County Program for the Care of Prematures, American Journal of Public Health, January, 1941.
• Parrot, J.: Clinique des Nouveau-Nés – L’Athrepsie, 1877. Source: Gallica.
• Pascaud, V.: La Couveuse Artificielle chez les Nouveau-Nés, Paris, 1899. Source: National Library of Medicine microfilm.
• Pemell, Robert: De Morbis Puerorum, or, A Treatise of the Diseases of Children, 1653.
• Pinard, M. A.: Tarnier Memorium with photos and obituary, 1898.
• Pinard, M. A.: Presentation d’Appareil (describing the Lion incubator), 1893. Source: gallica.bnf.fr.
• Pinard, M. A.: Hygiène de la femme enceinte. — De la puériculture intra-utérine, 1900. 10th Congrès International d’Hygiène et Démographie, Paris. Source: Cnum.
  • English summary
• Pinard, M. A.: Note pour servir à l’histoire de la puériculture., Revue d’hygiène, 20 Dec. 1895. Source: BIU Santé.
  • English summary.
• Portes, L.: Éloge du professeur Adophe Pinard (1844-1934), 1943. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / National Library of France. (French) 
• Queirolo, César-A: Les couveuses d’enfant et le gavage, 1897.
• Ransom, S. W.: The Care of Premature and Feeble Infants, 1898.
• Roberton, John: Observations on the Mortality and Physical Management of Children, 1827. Source: Wellcome Collection.
• Rotch, T. M.: A Description of a New Incubator, 1893.
• Rotch, T. M.: Pediatrics: The Hygienic and Medical Treatment of Children, 1895.
• Sadler, S. H.: Infant Feeding by Artificial Means, Second Edition, 1896.
• Sadler, S. H.: Infant Feeding by Artificial Means, Third Edition, 1909.
• Sidbury, J. Buren: Transfusion through the Umbilical Vein in Hemorrhage of the New-Born, 1923.
• Silverman, William A.: Incubator-Baby Side Shows, 1979. Reproduced by permission of Pediatrics.
• Silverman, William A.: Postscript to Incubator-Baby Side Shows, 1980. Reproduced by permission of Pediatrics.
• Silverman, William A.: Retrolental Fibroplasia: A Modern Parable, 1980.
• Smellie, William: Of the Management of new-born Children, with the Diseases to which they are subject, from A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery, Volume I, Fourth Edition, 1762.
• Smith, Eustache: On the Wasting Diseases of Infants and Children, 1885.
• Smith, Mary Dabney: “Incubator Babies,” American Journal of Nursing, 11(10):791-795, July 1911.
• Smith, James Walter: Baby Incubators, 1896.
• Sobel, Jacob: Antenatal and Neonatal Protection of the Infant, 1926.
• Starr, Louis: Hygiene of the Nursery, 2nd edition, 1889.
• Strauss, Paul: La Consultation de Nourrissons, from Dépopulation et Puériculture, 1901. Source: Gallica
• Stuart, Francis H.: De Lion Incubator at Low Maternity Hospital, 1901.
• Tarnier, S. and Chantreuil, J.: Physiologie et Hygiène de la Première Enfance, 1882. Source: Google Books.
• Tarnier, S.: Des soins à donner aux enfants nés avant terme, 1885. (French with English translation)
• Tarnier, S.: Des soins à donner aux enfants nés avant terme, 1885. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / National Library of France. (French) 
• Tarnier, S. and Budin, P. Accouchement Prématuré Spontané, Chapter 22 of Traité de l’Art des Accouchements, Volume 2, 1888. Source: Google Books.
• Taylor, Wm. H.: Some Points in Relation to Premature Children, 1887.
• Thoms, Herbert: An Efficient and Inexpensive Incubator, 1919.
• Tidy, C. Meymott: On Human Milk, 1868.
• Townsend, Charles W. The Haemorrhagic Disease of the New-Born, 1894.
• Ungaro, V.: Budin, 1907.
• Variot, G.: Traité Pratique des Maladies des Enfants du Premier Age, 1921. Source: Gallica.
• Voorhees, James D.: The Care of Premature Babies in Incubators, 1900.
• Waterman, S.: Revivification, 1883.
• Winckel, F.: Über Anwendung permanenter Bäder bei Neugeborenen, 1882.
• Winckel, F.: On the Use of a Constant Bath for New-Born Children, 1884 [English abstract].
• Zahorsky, John: The Baby Incubators on the “Pike,” published in 9 installments, 1905.
• Zahorsky, John: The Worlds Fair, excerpt from his autobiography, 1949.

Classic Books in Neonatal Medicine (Sorted by Author)

• Armstrong: George: An Essay on the Diseases Most Fatal to Infants, 1767. Source: Wellcome Collection.
• Ballantyne, J. W.: Manual of Antenatal Pathology and Hygiene: The Foetus, 1902. Source: Internet Archive.
• Ballantyne, J. W.: Manual of Antenatal Pathology and Hygiene: The Embryo, 1904. Source: Google Books.
• Baumes, Thimotée: Traité de l’Ictère ou Jaunisse des Enfants de Naissance [Treatise on Icterus or Jaundice of the Newborn, 2nd edition] ,, 1785.
• Berthod, Paul: La Couveuse et le Gavage a la Maternité de Paris [The Incubator and Gavage Feeds
  at the Paris Maternity Hospital], Thesis version, 1887.
• Berthod, Paul: La Couveuse et le Gavage a la Maternité de Paris [The Incubator and Gavage Feeds at the Paris Maternity Hospital], 1887. Book version. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / National Library of France.
• Budin, Pierre: Le Nourrisson, Paris, 1900 [French] 
• Budin, Pierre: The Nursling, English translation of 1907, scanned document. Source: Wellcome Collection. ,
• Budin, Pierre: Manuel Pratique d’Allaitement: Hygiène du Nourrisons, Second Edition, 1907. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / National Library of France
• Budin, Pierre and Demelin, L.: Du Nouveau-Né – part 4 of Manuel Pratique d’Accouchement et d’Allaitement, 1904. Source: Gallica
• Butler, Ellis Parker: The Incubator Baby, 1906.
• Cadogan, William: An Essay upon Nursing and the Management of Children, from their Birth to Three Years of Age, Third Edition, 1749.
• Children’s Bureau (U.S. Department of Labor): Infant Care, 1914. Source: Georgetown Univ.
• Children’s Bureau (Social Security Administration): Infant Care, 1945. Source: Google Books.
• Coffin, A. I.: Treatment of the Child, from Treatise on Midwifery, 1878.
• Conyers, Richard: De Morbis Infantum ,, 1729.
• Czerny, A. D. and Keller, A.: Des Kindes Ernährung, Ernährungsstörungen und Ernährungstherapie. Franz Deuticke, Leipzig and Vienna, 1906.
• Dunham, Ethel C.: Premature Infants: A Manual for Physicians, 1948. 
• Dunham, Ethel C. and Crane, Marian M.: Standards and Recommendations for Hospital Care of Newborn Infants, 1943.
• Flagg, Paluel J: The Art of Resuscitation, 1944.
  • Chapter 8 – Asphyxia Neonatorum
  • Appendix 3 – Asphyxia Neonatorum
• Foundling Hospital, London: “An account of the hospital for the maintenance and education of exposed and deserted young children…” 1749. 
• Fullerton, Anna M.: The Ailments of Early Infancy, chapter 11 of A Handbook of Obstetrical Nursing, 1891. Source: Library of Congress. 
• Hahn, Camille: Des Prématurés: Caractéres, Pronostic, Traitement, 1901.
• Harris, Walter: De Morbis Acutis Infantum, 1693. (This printing is from 1720, Latin) Source: Wellcome Collection. 
• Harris, Walter: De Morbis Acutis Infantum, translated into English as An Exact Inquiry into the Diseases of Infants by William Cockburn in 1693, this printing is from 1694. Source: Internet Archive. 
• Hecker, R. and Trumpp, J.: Atlas und Grudriss der Kinderheilkunde [Atlas and Outline of Pediatrics], 1905. German (original), English, French.
• Hess, Julius H.: Premature and Congenitally Diseased Infants, 1922. Scanned book. Source: Google Books. 
• Hess, Julius H.: Infant Feeding: A Handbook for the Practitioner, 1924. 
• Hess, Julius H. and Lundeen, Evelyn C.: The Premature Infant, Its Medical and Nursing Care, 1941.
• Holt, L. Emmett: Diseases of Infancy and Childhood, 1898. 
• Ludwig, C. and Schultze, B. S.: Der Scheintod Neugeborener, 1871.
• Phaire, Thomas: The Boke of Chyldren, 1545.
• Pernell, Robert: De Morbis Puerorum, or, A Treatise of the Diseases of Children, 1653.
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