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Infection of the innocents [electronic resource] : wet nurses, infants, and syphilis in France, 1780-1900 / Joan Sherwood.
ISBN:
9780773580916
Title:
Infection of the innocents [electronic resource] : wet nurses, infants, and syphilis in France, 1780-1900 / Joan Sherwood.
Author:
Sherwood, Joan, 1929-
Personal Author:
Sherwood, Joan, 1929-
Publication Information:
Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2010.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 214 pages) : illustrations.
Series:
McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health and society ; 37
Contents:
Mercury and syphilis : a dysfunctional relationship -- The making of a modern hospital in eighteenth-century Paris -- The infants of Vaugirard -- The wet nurse as technology -- The wet nurse and the law -- The Doctor exonerated -- Appendices. Case sources ; Decision of the Court of Dijon, 14 May 1868 ; General legislative and statutory terms.
Local Note:
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Corporate Subject:
Hospice de Vaugirard (Paris, France) -- History.

Hospice de Vaugirard (Paris, France)

Hospice de Vaugirard (Paris, France) -- Histoire.
Subject Term:
Syphilis, Congenital, hereditary, and infantile -- Treatment -- Social aspects -- France -- History.

Syphilis -- Patients -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- France -- History.

Wet nurses -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- France -- History.

Medical personnel -- Malpractice -- France -- History.

Syphilis, Congenital -- history.

Syphilis, Congenital -- therapy.

Breast Feeding -- adverse effects.

History, 18th Century.

History, 19th Century.

Malpractice -- legislation & jurisprudence.

Mercury -- therapeutic use.
Geographic Term:
France.
Format:
Electronic Resources
Electronic Access:
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Publication Date:
2010
Publication Information:
Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2010.