TY  - JOUR
T1  - ITaly
Y1  - 1929/03/16
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1929.02700370060022
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 912
EP  - 913
VL  - 92
IS  - 11
N2  - 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
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1929.02700370060022
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700370060022
ER  -