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Therapy and societal responses, 16th-18th centuries
- 1780: Vaugirard Hospital
- Dedicated to the therapy of congenital syphilis.
- Designed to safely and efficiently deliver state of the art care (i.e., mercury) to infants.
- Pregnant syphilitic women were brought from other public institutions, treated with mercury, and then served as wet-nurses to newborns.
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