Infection of the Innocents : Wet Nurses, Infants, and Syphilis in France, 1780-1900
Joan Sherwood
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.
Рік:
2010
Видання:
1
Видавництво:
McGill-Queen's University Press
Мова:
english
Сторінки:
229
ISBN 10:
0773580913
ISBN 13:
9780773580916
Серії:
McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society Ser.
Файл:
PDF, 1.55 MB
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english, 2010