title: The history of child abuse.
abstract: Though the child abuse syndrome is usually considered to have been first described in the middle of the present century, references to child abuse occur throughout history and in the 19th century, detailed descriptions were published in the French medical literature.
mesh_terms: D001497:Battered Child Syndrome; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male