1857 TARDIEU, Auguste Ambroise (1818 – 1879)
Étude médico-légale sur les attentats aux moeurs.
“Extrait des Annales d’hygiène publique et de médicine légale, 2e série, tome VIII." Tardieu divided his book on "sexual crimes" into three parts: the first deals with indecent exposures, the second with rape, and the…
GMN 8891 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11069
1860 TARDIEU, Auguste Ambroise (1818 – 1879)
Etude médico-légale sur les sévices et mauvais traitements exercés sur des enfants.
The first medical-legal study of child abuse, including sexual abuse, incest, and the "battered child" syndrome. Tardieu described 32 cases in detail, 18 of which resulted in death. Digital facsimile from Google Books…
GMN 8890 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11068
1882 MOREAU, Paul [Moreau de Tours] (1844 – 1908)
De l’homicide commis par les enfants.
Digital facsimile from BnFgallica at this link.
GMN 11160 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13357
1887 EMMINGHAUS, Hermann (1845 – 1904)
Die psychischen Störungen des Kindesalters. IN: Carl Gerhardt's Handbuch der Kinderkrankheiten, Nachtrag II.
The first systematic monograph on child psychiatry. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 7796 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9968
1902 ZIEHEN, Georg Theodor (1862 – 1950)
Die Geisteskrankheiten des Kindesalters mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des schulpflichtigen Alters.
The first systematic work on child psychiatry in Germany. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12294 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14515
1905 FREUD, Sigmund (1856 – 1939)
Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie.
The work which Freud considered second in importance only to his Die Traumdeutung. Freud’s epochal theory of infantile sexuality linked the forces motivating the development of body and mind from earliest infancy. Inf…
GMN 4983 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6406
1927 FREUD, Anna (1895 – 1982)
Einführung in die Technik der Kinderanalyse.
Daughter of Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud made the psychoanalysis of children her own province. This is probably the most famous classic of child analysis.
GMN 4990.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6484
1935 KANNER, Leo (1894 – 1981)
Child psychiatry.
Leo Kanner, an Austrian émigré and medical graduate of the University of Berlin, founded the first academic department of child psychiatry under the direction of Adolf Meyer at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Kanner was t…
GMN 8894 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11072
1937 BRADLEY, Charles (1902 – 1979)
Behavior of children receiving benzedrine.
Bradley showed that racemic amphetamine, that is, the 50:50 mixture of d- and l-amphetamine isomers (Benzedrine®), was shown to reduce the impulsivity, distractibility, and inattention characteristic of Attention Defi…
GMN 7980 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10156
1943 KANNER, Leo (1894 – 1981)
Autistic disturbances of affective contact.
The first description of “early infantile autism” as a disorder marked by extreme detachment, self-isolation, inability to form relationships, frequent failure to acquire communicative abilities, and preoccupation wit…
GMN 7625 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9797
1944 ASPERGER, Hans (1906 – 1980)
Die "Autistischen Psychopathen" im Kindesalter.
Early infantile autism (Asperberger's syndrome).
GMN 7626 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9798
1954 MEIER, R; GROSS, F; TRIPOD, J
Ritalin, a new synthetic compound with specific analeptic components.
The authors identified Methylphenidate as a stimulant. It is sold under the trade name Ritalin, and other names.
GMN 7981 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10157
1962 KEMPE, C. Henry (Karl Heinz Kempe) (1922 – 1984); SILVERMAN, Frederick N. (1914 – 2006); STEELE, Brandt F. (1908 – 2005); DROEGEMUELLER, William; SILVER, Henry K. (1918 – 1991)
The battered-child syndrome.
"In 1962, Dr. C. Henry Kempe and his colleagues led the identification and recognition of child abuse with the defining paper, The Battered Child Syndrome. This paper was regarded as the single most significant event …
GMN 8893 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11071
1992 GEISSMANN, Pierre (1930 – 1995); GEISSMANN, Claudine (1936 – 2007)
Histoire de la psychanalyse de l'enfant.
English translation as A history of child psychoanalysis (London and New York: Routledge, 1998).
GMN 9618 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11805
1998 SWEDO, Susan E.; LEONARD, Henrietta L. (1954 – 2007); GARVEY, Marjory; ET AL
Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections: Clinical description of the first 50 cases.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Swedo, Leonard, Garvey.... Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS), "an hypothesis that there exists a subset …
GMN 11079 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13275
