An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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MENCKEN, Henry Louis

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What you ought to know about your baby by Leonard Keene Hirshberg. A text book for mothers on the care and feeding of babies, with questions and answers especially prepared by the editor.

New York: The Butterick Publishing Company, 1910.

Ghost-written by American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English H. L. Mencken except for the "questions and answers." In a copy that sold at auction at Christies in 1995, Mencken inscribed the following: "I found Hirshberg. He prepared the material and I wrote the copy. More than 125,000 American mothers, using this invaluable text, have saved their brats from smallpox, arterio-sclerosis, poison-vol and delirium tremors. This has been my sole contribution to the salvation of humanity."  Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link. New edition as The H. L. Mencken baby book edited by Howard Markel and Frank Oski (Philadelphia, 1990).



Subjects: PEDIATRICS