English lawyer, paediatrician, and author. Born in Norwich, he was educated at Oxford beforre studying law at Lincoln's Inn, bcoming Solicitor in the Court of the Welsh Marches as well as Member of Parliament for Cardigan. He turned practising medicine, publishing 'Natura Brevium' in 1535, and 'Newe Boke of Presidentes' in 1543. . He published 'The Regiment of Life', and the following year he produced the book for which he is best known: 'The Boke of Chyldren', the first work in Paediatrics. He recognised 'apostume of the brayne'(meningitis), colic, 'terrible dreames and feare in the slepe' (nightmares) and 'pissing in the bedde' (bedwetting). He advised against treating childhood diseases such as smallpox or measles ('The best and most sure helpe in this case is not to meddle with anye kynde of medicines, but to let nature work her operacion'). He received his Doctorate in 1558, but had also turned to other literature, having produced a translation of Virgil's 'Aeneid'. He died leaving this work incomplete, and was buried in Cilgerran, Pembrokeshire.
English lawyer, paediatrician, and author. Born in Norwich, he was educated at Oxford beforre studying law at Lincoln's Inn, bcoming Solicitor in the Court of the Welsh Marches as well as Member of Parliament for Cardigan. He turned practising medicine, publishing 'Natura Brevium' in 1535, and 'Newe Boke of Presidentes' in 1543. . He published 'The Regiment of Life', and the following year he produced the book for which he is best known: 'The Boke of Chyldren', the first work in Paediatrics. He recognised 'apostume of the brayne'(meningitis), colic, 'terrible dreames and feare in the slepe' (nightmares) and 'pissing in the bedde' (bedwetting). He advised against treating childhood diseases such as smallpox or measles ('The best and most sure helpe in this case is not to meddle with anye kynde of medicines, but to let nature work her operacion'). He received his Doctorate in 1558, but had also turned to other literature, having produced a translation of Virgil's 'Aeneid'. He died leaving this work incomplete, and was buried in Cilgerran, Pembrokeshire.
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