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In Europe, children's diseases were not considered fundamentally different from those of adults until the 15th century and the first European paediatric book was Paulus Bagellardus' (?–1492)Libellus de aegritudinibus infantum (The little book of the diseases of children), printed in 1472. However, by the 2nd century AD, Chinese medical texts had already recognised that children's ailments differed from …