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[[File:Luther Emmett Holt.jpg|thumb|Luther Emmett Holt]]
'''Luther Emmett Holt''', {{MD}}, ({{LifeData|birth=1855-03-04|birthplace=Webster, {{USSC|NY}}|birthcountry=USA|death=1924-01-14|deathplace=Peking|deathcountry=[[China]]}}) was an American pediatrician and author, noted for writing ''The Care and Feeding of Children: A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses'' in 1894.<ref name="WP">{{REFweb
|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Emmett_Holt
|title=Luther Emmett Holt
|Author={{FULLPAGENAME}}
|ref=<ref>{{REFbook
|last=Meckel
|first=Richard A.
|lastinit=MeckelRA
|title=Save the Babies: American Public Health Reform and the Prevention of Infant Mortality, 1850-1929
|publisher=Univ. of Michigan Press
}}</ref> in 1896; the book would go through 11 editions and remain the definitive text on pediatrics until 1940.<ref name="WP"/>
In 1913, Holt reported tubercular ''[[Mohel| mohels]]'' were transmitting tuberculosis to infant boys.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Holt
|init=LE
|accessdate=2019-10-28
}}</ref>
{{SEEALSO}}* [[China]]* [[United States of America]]{{ABBR}}
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