Bartholomäus Metlinger
Bartholomäus Metlinger (born in Augsburg - died c.1491) was a German physician of the late Middle Ages.[1]
Metlinger graduated in 1470 at the University of Bologna. He was city physician in Nördlingen from 1476 to 1483, when he took the same position in Augsburg, probably succeeding his late father Peter Metlinger.
His most famous work Kinderbüchlein ("Little Book on Children") was published on 7 December 1473, being retitled on later editions as Ein Regiment der jungen Kinder (A Guide on Young Children).[2] It was the first German-language work on Pediatrics. In it, Metlinger deals with the care of infants and small children up to the age of seven. The book describes several childhood diseases and their treatment, besides providing educational advices. If also contains one of the first known written definitions of a pacifier.
See also
Bibliography
- Walter Martin Manzke: Remedia per infantibus: Medicinal child therapy in the 15th and 16th centuries, illustrated by means of selected diseases (dissertation in the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Marburg.). 2008. http://d-nb.info/987944800/34
- John Ruräh: Bartholomaeus Metlinger -1941. in Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, 35 (3), 1928, pp 492–494.
- Susanne Scheibenreiter: Diseases of the child in the Middle Ages (Unpublished thesis, University of Vienna, Faculty of History). 2008, 93 pages. http://othes.univie.ac.at/1341/1/2008-10-03_5600012.pdf
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References
- ↑ Scheibenreiter, page 28.
- ↑ Metlinger, Bartholomäus. "Ein Regiment der jungen Kinder". Europeana. Retrieved 2014-09-25.