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'''Luther Emmett Holt''' ({{LifeData|birth=1855-03-04|birthplace=Webster, 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
|website=Wikipedia
|accessdate=2021-10-06
}}</ref>
As president of the [[American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality]] (AASPIM), Holt promoted reproduction control by society as a means of eugenics. In his 1913 presidential address he said:<ref name="WP"/>
{{Citation
|Text=We must eliminate the unfit by birth not by death. The race is to be most effectively improved by preventing marriage and reproduction by the unfit, among whom we would class the diseased, the degenerate, the defective, and the criminal.
|Author={{FULLPAGENAME}}
|ref=<ref>{{REFbook
|first=Richard A.
|last=Meckel
|title=Save the Babies: American Public Health Reform and the Prevention of Infant Mortality, 1850-1929
|publisher=Univ. of Michigan Press
|year=1998
|page=118
}}</ref>
}}
He wrote ''The Care and Feeding of Children'' to great acclaim, and the text quickly became a bestseller. He also wrote ''Diseases of Infancy and Childhood''<ref>{{REFweb
|url=http://www.glaserrarebooks.com/cgi-bin/glaser//9132
|first=Edwin V.
|last=Glaser
|title=Rare Books
|accessdate=2010-03-17
}}</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 ''mohels'' were transmitting tuberculosis to infant boys.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Holt
|init=LE
|author-link=L. Emmett Holt
|title=Tuberculosis acquired through ritual circumcision
|journal=JAMA
|date=1913-07-12
|volume=61
|issue=2
|pages=99-102
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/complications/holt1/
|DOI=10.1001/jama.1913.0435002002501
|accessdate=2019-10-28
}}</ref>
{{REF}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Holt, Luther Emmett}}
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'''Luther Emmett Holt''' ({{LifeData|birth=1855-03-04|birthplace=Webster, 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
|website=Wikipedia
|accessdate=2021-10-06
}}</ref>
As president of the [[American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality]] (AASPIM), Holt promoted reproduction control by society as a means of eugenics. In his 1913 presidential address he said:<ref name="WP"/>
{{Citation
|Text=We must eliminate the unfit by birth not by death. The race is to be most effectively improved by preventing marriage and reproduction by the unfit, among whom we would class the diseased, the degenerate, the defective, and the criminal.
|Author={{FULLPAGENAME}}
|ref=<ref>{{REFbook
|first=Richard A.
|last=Meckel
|title=Save the Babies: American Public Health Reform and the Prevention of Infant Mortality, 1850-1929
|publisher=Univ. of Michigan Press
|year=1998
|page=118
}}</ref>
}}
He wrote ''The Care and Feeding of Children'' to great acclaim, and the text quickly became a bestseller. He also wrote ''Diseases of Infancy and Childhood''<ref>{{REFweb
|url=http://www.glaserrarebooks.com/cgi-bin/glaser//9132
|first=Edwin V.
|last=Glaser
|title=Rare Books
|accessdate=2010-03-17
}}</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 ''mohels'' were transmitting tuberculosis to infant boys.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Holt
|init=LE
|author-link=L. Emmett Holt
|title=Tuberculosis acquired through ritual circumcision
|journal=JAMA
|date=1913-07-12
|volume=61
|issue=2
|pages=99-102
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/complications/holt1/
|DOI=10.1001/jama.1913.0435002002501
|accessdate=2019-10-28
}}</ref>
{{REF}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Holt, Luther Emmett}}
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[[Category:Male]]
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