Important researches upon the existence, nature, and communication of venereal infection in pregnant women, new-born infants and nurses / by the late P.A.O. Mahon ; these are contrasted with the new opinions of the late John Hunter upon this subject, together with observations thereon, by Jesse Foot.

  • Mahon, P.-A.-O. (Paul-Augustin-Olivier), 1752-1801.
Date:
1808
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Credit: Important researches upon the existence, nature, and communication of venereal infection in pregnant women, new-born infants and nurses / by the late P.A.O. Mahon ; these are contrasted with the new opinions of the late John Hunter upon this subject, together with observations thereon, by Jesse Foot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pregnancy,! andthat when children were born infected with the venereal disease, and that they received the infection from their mother, they generally perished a very short time after their birth.* Boerhaave, in his Aphorisms, remarks, as a general rule, that the venereal disease is trans- mitted through the means of the organs of generation as well as by sucking. There is nothing wonderful, says this celebrated author, that if the children whose father and mother are infected, that they should be born with the same disease. Indeed, since the venereal disease mixes with all the circulating humours, and is probably carried to all parts of the body be- fore it arrives at certain parts, the foetus living in the womb of the mother is perpetually re- ceiving vitiated humors, and there is pei haps already a morbific poison in the uterus before it is impregnated. On the other side it has been remarked, that a child which has been healthy while in the uterus of the mother, may be born infected with venereal disease, in consequence of its remaining a short time in its passage through the vagina, whence it gets impreg- nated with ichorous and purulent matter that t He misrht have used it safely to the ninth month. J .F. * Les Accouchemens de Mauriceau, Aphor. 1G7.