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Hector Charles Cameron
1878–1958
A British physician and pediatrician, he wrote practical books on infant feeding, child health, and hospital history, bringing a clinician’s eye to subjects that mattered deeply to families and doctors alike.
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The Nervous Child
by Hector Charles Cameron
About the author
Born in Glasgow on July 17, 1878, he was known as Charles Cameron and went on to become a respected British physician and pediatrician. He was educated at Clifton College, the University of Glasgow, St John's College, Cambridge, and Guy's Hospital, and he later became associated with Guy's as a doctor and medical writer.
His work centered on the care of infants and children. Books linked to his name include The Nervous Child, Diet and Disease in Infancy, and Mr. Guy's Hospital, 1726–1948, showing both his medical interests and his feel for history.
Cameron died on April 1, 1958. Although he is chiefly remembered as a physician rather than a literary figure, his writing helped preserve ideas about child health and the institutions that shaped British medicine in the first half of the twentieth century.