HECTOR CHARLES CAMERON

M.A., M.D.(Cantab.), F.R.C.P.(Lond.)

PHYSICIAN TO GUY'S HOSPITAL AND PHYSICIAN IN CHARGE OF

THE CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT, GUY'S HOSPITAL

"RESPECT the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude."—Emerson.

LONDON

HENRY FROWDE HODDER & STOUGHTON

Oxford University Press Warwick Square, E.C.

1920

First Edition 1919

Second Impression 1930

Printed in Great Britain

By Morrison & Gibb Ltd., Edinburgh