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Michael Underwood, MD (1737-1820): physician-accoucheur of London.

Dunn PM

Department of Child Health, University of Bristol, Southmead Hospital, Southmead, Bristol BS10 5BN, UK. P.M.Dunn@bristol.ac.uk

Underwood was the first physician-accoucheur to be appointed to the Royal College of Physicians in London. The same year, 1784, he published a textbook which did much to establish paediatrics as an emerging discipline in its own right. The book contains several original descriptions of childhood diseases.

Published 22 February 2006 in Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed, 91(2): F150-2.
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