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Infection of the innocents : wet nurses, infants, and syphilis in France, 1780-1900 /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2010.
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| Colección: | McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ;
37. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Mercury and syphilis : a dysfunctional relationship
- The making of a modern hospital in eighteenth-century Paris
- The infants of Vaugirard
- The wet nurse as technology
- The wet nurse and the law
- The Doctor exonerated
- Appendices. Case sources ; Decision of the Court of Dijon, 14 May 1868 ; General legislative and statutory terms.