A.R. Colon lives in Maryland and teaches history and clinical medicine at Georgetown University, School of Medicine. He has 160 publications and lectures nationally and internationally on both medical and historical topics. P.A. Colon is a freelance writer. Praise for prior books by the authors: Nurturing Children: A History of Pediatrics, Westport Ct, Greenwood Press, 1999. "In this ambitious and highly readable book, A.R. Colon and P.A. Colon have done an admirable job of extracting threads of pediatric medicine from a mass of sources dating from the beginning of recorded history, and provid...