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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...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Sherwood, Joan, 1929-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2010.
Collection:McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 37.
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