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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    to the child, and the elaboration which it under- goes assimilates it more to the delicacy of its organs. It ought therefore to be continued some time after the symptoms disappear; for it ought to be remembered notwithstanding the opinion of Harris, that time renders the dis- ease more obstinate, and that it often appears to deaden, to re-appear with greater energy. When the child has sucked the disease with the milk of an infected nurse, the hope of success from the method just spoken of is destroyed. You may nevertheless supply the want of the milk of the woman, by the milk of a goat or a cow, which has been rubbed with mercury. It is in this sad distress that you may impreg- nate the atmosphere of the room with mer- curial fumes. An abundant salivation will be hurtful to a child, who will swallow more or less saliva; but it is good that the mouth should be heated. Sweet mercury, (if they cannot use the preceding methods,) seems to me to be the best of all the mercurial salts for its weakness, and at the same time the most easy to be taken. As it is not possible to exhaust entirely the strength of a child, without great danger of the life of the child, or at least its health, we are sometimes obliged, when all the symptoms