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.

Paul Augustin Olivier Mahon

Date:: 1808

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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it meets with there. It is in this manner that midwives and accoucheurs are sometimes in- fected, they having suffered the infection to remain upon their hands some time. In this case the infection of the child is not long before it shews itself, but in the other we cannot doubt but that the child may grow to an adult stage before it exhibits any marks of the dis- ease.* Vercelloni published in 1720, that two chil- dren that were found infected with the venereal disease had infected a very great number of nurses. In another part he assures us, that he has employed the same means used by Riviere, (in his observations before mentioned,) that is, the giving of mercurial salts.f At this time, or very near, the famous Brunn, or Brunner, physician from Switzerland, published just before his death, a book upon the treatment of the venereal disease without salivation. He speaks with great confidence of a method for the treatment of the venereal disease in children, * Van Swieten in Aplior. Boerhaave. + De Pudendorum Morbis et Lue Venerea, Tetrabiblion.

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