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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    opinions upon the treatment of the venereal disease. The author explains himself thus, in speaking of pregnant women and new-born infants attacked with the venereal disease. If the treatment of pregnant women infected writh the venereal disease is imperfect, the child will not be cured, and they will find much trouble in completing the cure, after the child is born, though it takes nothing but the breast of the mother during the cure. The commu- nication from the mother to the child will be less direct and less continual than when in the place of its conception. Moreover it appears proved that the air in which the child breathes, and with which it is surrounded, joined with all the other circumstances of its life, concur in making the disease worse and rendering it more obstinate. It is for the physician to choose the most proper method for the cure*, but he ought to recollect that the disease is often cured in appearance, whether a child has the symptoms of the disease from its birth, or it appears immediately after. From whence it is inferred, that a superficial treatment will not prevent the consequences of the disease in the mother or the child. As to the cure of infants, the milk of the mother who takes medicine, transmits it