title: Long-term follow-up records.
abstract: Having accumulated a very large series of patients' records over a period of 60 years, some involving three generations of a family, the author has selected cases that illustrate the opportunities to observe the progress of patients from infancy for more than half a century. This unique opportunity has included a variety of clinical conditions such as congenital syphilis, cretinism, acute osteomyelitis, and pink disease and represents a long term follow-up of conditions which reflect both the paediatrics of the past and the changes in the pattern of disease which have occurred in the course of 60 years.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002648:Child; D003409:Congenital Hypothyroidism; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008499:Medical Records; D010019:Osteomyelitis; D013590:Syphilis, Congenital; D013997:Time Factors