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Julie Kim Stamos, MD, has organized and edited this issue of Pediatric Annals very well, and it includes nice review articles related to fever in childhood. Although some aspects of the febrile child have changed little over time, others, such as periodic fever syndromes, are evolving relatively rapidly while new genetic causes are discovered or new therapies developed. These articles are well-written and packed with clinical pearls.
This issue of Pediatric Annals also marks the beginning of the 40th volume of this journal. Pediatric Annals was launched almost 40 years ago, under the editorship of Milton I. Levine, MD, who had served on the faculty of Cornell University Medical College since 1933 (also almost 40 years).
The first two issues were devoted to neonatology in October and November 1972. Dr. Levine established the policy that each issue of Pediatric Annals "would devote itself to an up-to-date discussion on one subject of importance to pediatricians." The field of neonatology was truly in its infancy (no pun) 40 years ago. I can recall as a medical student and resident in the mid-to-late 1960s what novelties the few ventilators in the nursery were.
The titles of the papers in the first issue of Pediatric Annals, entitled "The Low Birth Weight Baby" were "An Overview of LBW's;" "Physiologic and Clinical Considerations of Blood Disorders;" "Later Development and Follow-up;" and...