Venereal diseases: their complications and sequelae / by Edward L. Keyes and Charles H. Chetwood.

  • Keyes, E. L. (Edward Lawrence), 1843-1924.
Date:
1900
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Credit: Venereal diseases: their complications and sequelae / by Edward L. Keyes and Charles H. Chetwood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    out a powder will take this solution, believing it to be water. The medi- cine will mix with milk without turning it, or with any food in such a way that its presence is unsuspected; and if the whole or a portion of a given dose should be regurgitated by an infant, it is not a very serious matter, since the doses follow each other in such quick succession. The average interval between the doses should be three to four hours for prolonged treatment, the intervals being shortened when a prompt or vigorous mercurial influence is desired. Mercurial stomatitis is not likely to occur with the use of this remedy in this way, and intestinal dis- turbance is equally uncommon—plenty of warning being given by premon- itory symptoms before any explosion comes on, so that there is time to avert the latter. Iodide of potassium may be administered through the milk of the mother, or in mild doses by the mouth of the infant, provided the dose be given with the food and be itself considerably diluted with water. In no case should a child born of syphilitic parents, whether it shows evidences of inherited disease or not, be allowed to suckle a healthy wet- nurse. The risk of infecting the latter is too great to be overlooked. A syphilitic child may, however, suckle its mother with advantage, and can never infect her (Colles’s law), even although she be considered healthy and has never shown any symptom of syphilis. The same rule applies to a wet-nurse. A syphilitic woman may have recovered and may secrete good milk, and such milk is perfectly suitable for the child, while the latter cannot poison the nurse.