John Zahorsky - bibliography

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Biography

American paediatrician, born October 13, 1871, Mereny, Austria-Hungary, now in Slovakia; died 1963, St. Louis, Missouri.

Bibliography

  • The Baby Incubators on the "Pike".
    Part 1, December, 1904. A Study of the Care of Premature Infants in Incubator Hospitals Erected for Show Purposes.
    St. Louis Courier of Medicine, December 1904, 31 (6):345-358.
    Part 2. St. Louis Courier of Medicine, January 1905, 32 (1): 1-13,
    Part 3. St. Louis Courier of Medicine, February 1905, 32 (2): 65-80,
    Part 4. St. Louis Courier of Medicine, March 1905, 32(3): 52-166,
    Part 5. St. Louis Courier of Medicine, April 1905, 32(4): 203-219,
    Part 6. St. Louis Courier of Medicine, May 1905, 32 (5): 265-275,
    Part 7. St. Louis Courier of Medicine, June 1905, 32 (6): 334-343,
    Part 8. St. Louis Courier of Medicine, July 1905, 33 (1): 1-9,
    Part 9. St. Louis Courier of Medicine, August 1905, 33 (2): 65-71,
    Part10. St. Louis Courier of Medicine, September 1905, 33 (3): 137-143,
    Part 11. St. Louis Courier of Medicine, October 1905, 33 (4): 211-218,
  • Golden rules of pediatrics : aphorisms, observations and precepts on the science and art of pediatrics, giving practical rules for diagnosis and prognosis, the essentials of infant feeding, and the principles of scientific treatment.
    With an introduction by E. W. Saunders. St. Louis, Mosby, 1906.
  • Herpetic sore throat.
    Southern Medical Journal, Birmingham, Nashville, 1920, 13: 871-872.
    First description of herpangina, an acute infection associated with Coxsackie virus.
  • Synopsis of pediatrics.
    With Theodore Saunders Zahorsky (1901-1988). Mosby, 1934.
  • Pediatric nursing. With Beryl E. Hamilton. St.Louis, Mosby, 1936.
  • The Infant and Child in Health and Disease : with special reference to nursing care.
    With Elizabeth Noyes. S. Louis, C.V. Mosby Company, 1939.
  • From the hills : an autobiography of a pediatrician. St. Louis, Mosby, 1949. Biographical:
  • Time Magazine, September 4, 1950.
  • Bernadine Courtright Barr:
    Entertaining and Instructing the Public: John Zahorsky's 1904 Incubator Institute.
    Social History of Medicine (Great Britain), 1995, 8: 1 (1995): 17-36.

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