PEDIATRICS Vol. 16 No. 5 November 1955, pp. 688-694
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EDUCATION

AMERICAN PEDIATRICS: THE COMING YEARS

Editors: Grover F. Powers, M.D..

IN 1769 in London, Dr. George Armstrong opened the first "Dispensary for the Infant Poor," as it was called. There was no in-patient service, Armstrong expressing himself on that point as follows: "Several Friends to the Charity have thought it necessary to have a House fitted up for the Reception of such Infants as are very ill, where they might be accommodated in the same Manner as Adults are in other Hospitals. But a very little Reflection will clearly convince any thinking Person that such a scheme as this can never be executed. If you take away a sick Child from its Parent or Nurse you break its Heart immediately: and if there must be a Nurse to each Child what kind of an Hospital must there be to contain any Number of them?"