Growing pains : childhood Illness in Ireland 1750-1950 / editors, Anne Mac Lellan, Alice Mauger.

Dublin : Irish Academic Press, 2013.

xix, 254 pages, 8 uunumbered pages of of plates : black and white illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Introduction : contexts of childhood illness in Ireland / Alice Mauger and Anne Mac Lellan -- Children's smallpox and inoculation procedures in eighteenth-century Ireland / Gabriella Ashford -- Children's hospital services in Victorian Dublin : the role of the institution for the diseases of children (1822-1886) / Conor Ward -- The gentle application of mercury : treatment of children at the Westmoreland lock hospital, Dublin, in the mid-nineteenth century / Jean M. Walker -- Childhood ophthalmia in Irish workhouses, 1849-1861 / Philomena Gorey -- Children and the falling sickness, Ireland, 1850-1904 / June Cooper -- Constructing 'moral hospitals' : improving bodies and minds in Irish reformatories and industrial schools, c. 1851-1890 / Ian Miller -- The penny test : tuberculin testing and paediatric practice in Ireland, 1900-1960 / Anne Mac Lellan -- Rickets and Irish children : Dr. Ella Webb and the early work of the Children's Sunshine Home, 1925-1946 / Laura Kelly -- Through the eyes of a child : 'Spanish' influenza remembered by survivors / Ida Milne -- 'And so to bed' : bone and joint tuberculosis in children in Ireland, 1920-1950 / Susan Kelly.

Includes bibliographical references and index.