Michael Underwood, MD (1737-1820): physician-accoucheur of London.
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.
Department of Child Health, University of Bristol, Southmead Hospital, Southmead, Bristol BS10 5BN, UK. P.M.Dunn@bristol.ac.uk
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