Excerpt from Practical Pediatrics, Vol. 1 of 2: A Modern Clinical Guide in the Diseases of Infants and Children for the Family Physician
This is the Golden Age of the Child. Economists in all lines are now acutely aware that the largest national asset is the sound young human unit. To fulfil this role the primary requisite is health of body and mind.
Eugenics is fast becoming (as Galton expressed the fervent hope it would be) an integral part of faith, of "religion," and while parenthood and race culture are being studied earnestly by scientists, yet there is much to learn before eugenics can secure communal encouragement.
Truths emerge slowly from many carefully grouped findings, and then only after much revision and rejection, and by reason of wide and generous co-operation.
No truths can be more worthy of pursuit than those underlying and conditioning the buddings of human life forces. The young human being is too often regarded by the pediatrist, and yet oftener by the pedagogue, as an adult in miniature; ways and means for conservation, repair and education being devised and applied on this wholly erroneous basis. Biologists have made it clear that the young child reaches an acme of vitality during the nursery-age, which demands conservation then and there, or irreparable losses will occur and departures from normal growth begin. Clinicians are reaching the same conclusion in respect to the paramount need for such a prompt and complete recognition and repair of abnormalities and ailments as shall turn aside currents of hurtful influences inducing damagement or hypoplasia.
Thus it will be evident that the subject of developmental abnormalities demands earliest recognition; equally so of the incipience of acquired abnormalities, significant not only in and by themselves, but in the effects they must induce upon organic integrity and growth of the organism in part or in whole.
The child, then, must be studied as a concrete entity, and from all aspects, if we are to do our duty as conservators of health.
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