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Infection of the Innocents : Wet Nurses, Infants, and Syphilis in France, 1780-1900 PDF
by Joan Sherwood
Part of the McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society series
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In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries congenital syphilis was a major cause of infant mortality in France but mercury, the preferred treatment for the disease, could not be safely given to infants.
In the 1780s the Vaugirard hospital in Paris began to treat affected infants by giving mercury to wet nurses, who transmitted it to infants through their milk.
Despite the highly contagious nature of syphilis and the dangerous side-effects of mercury, the practice of using healthy wet nurses to treat syphilitic infants spread throughout France and continued into the nineteenth century.
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- Pages:229 pages
- Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press
- Publication Date:09/09/2010
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:229 pages
- Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press
- Publication Date:09/09/2010
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- ISBN:9780773580916