PEDIATRICS Vol. 48 No. 1 July 1971, pp. 151
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Excerpt XIII: Falling Out of a Coach

Thomas E. Cone Jr. M.D.

The unknown author of 1830 warns that "the fastenings of coach doors are never to be depended upon, and children should never lean upon them or against them." With change of the word coach to automobile, the same admonition could be used verbatim by a writer on accident prevention today. But would the modern author's style have the trenchancy of the lesson below?1