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 Jessé 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 Jessé Foot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    were cured or-very little infected, and the cure of the children completed by the sucking their mother while under a salivation.* Among the different w^orks that appeared in the commencement of the eighteenth centuryj upon the venereal disease, or on the diseases of children, we do not find that the medical prac- tice had made much progress on the subject that we are now engaged upon. They feared, and that with great propriety, || the dangerous effects of the application of mercurial unctions upon the bodies of infants, because the mercu- rial unctions made in imitation of those for the adult stage w^ere pushed too far. At this timci the administration of anti-venereals had become of so much consequence, that they feared the effects on women who had gone half the stage of pregnancy.f Mauriceau observes as a very extraordinary circumstance, that he had used mercurial . unctions upon women in the fourth month of * Traite pratique de la Verole, par M. Pierre Gamier. Lyon, 1696. p. 65. + He means the seventeenth century, J. F. U This is not true. J. F. t Les Accouchemens de Mauriceau, T. 2. Ohs. 61 ct 100.