RT Journal
T1 ITaly
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD March 16
VO 92
IS 11
SP 912
OP 913
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02700370060022
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700370060022
AB The Congress of Nepiology 
    The first National Congress of Nepiology was held in Ancona under the chairmanship of Professor Cacace, who delivered the opening address, in which he emphasized the need of a complete study of the nursing child and stated that the nepiologist should be acquainted with all branches of medicine; he had need likewise of large cultural preparation and constant study. He advocated the creation in Italy of institutes of nepiology.Professor Valagussa of Rome discussed the activities of the Opera pro-maternità e infanzia, illustrating more particularly the scope and the development of the ambulant professorial chairs of child care and child training. He spoke also of antituberculosis prophylaxis by means of vaccination.Professor Cattaneo, director of the Clinica pediatrica in Milan, spoke of tuberculosis in the nursing child, and supported the view that the best means of prophylaxis is the creation of a greater number of antituberculosis