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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    diseases, there is more than one example under certain circumstances, and for indi- vidual privileges, to shew that she naturalizes the different virus which attacks the human subject. OBJECTION VII. Xo Conclusion can he drawn from those Symp- toms observed in the Hospital of Vangirardy because the Wet-nurses of that Hospital being infectedy they infected the Children that they suckled. The greater part of those children at the Hospital of Vangirard, that were brought there, were foundlings of the town, and were brought with the unequivocal symptoms upon them; while those that were born at the hospital, some had symptoms and the others had not, although they were suckled by infected nurses. It is much more reasonfible to suppose that those who were infected, were so either in the womb of their mothers, or at the moment of their birth, and those that had no apparent disorder, received it from some one of those particular circumstances wdiich I have mentioned in the third objection.