Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 214 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health and society ; 37 |
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McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 37.
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Contents |
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 |
Summary |
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 |
Analysis |
JSTOR-DDA |
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Hospice de Vaugirard History |
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Syphilis, Congenital, hereditary, and infantile Treatment Social aspects France History |
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Syphilis Patients Legal status, laws, etc France History |
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Wet nurses Legal status, laws, etc France History |
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Medical personnel Malpractice France History |
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Multi-User |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-207) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Hospice de Vaugirard (Paris, France) -- History
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SUBJECT |
Hospice de Vaugirard (Paris, France) |
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Syphilis, Congenital, hereditary, and infantile -- Treatment -- Social aspects -- France -- History
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Syphilis -- Patients -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- France -- History
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Wet nurses -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- France -- History
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Medical personnel -- Malpractice -- France -- History
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Medicine -- History -- 18th century.
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Syphilis, Congenital -- history
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Syphilis, Congenital -- therapy
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Breast Feeding -- adverse effects
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History, 18th Century
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History, 19th Century
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Malpractice -- legislation & jurisprudence
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Mercury -- therapeutic use
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MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Public Health.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Medicine
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Medical personnel -- Malpractice
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France https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005602 |
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France
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780773580916 |
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0773580913 |
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