Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction 3
6. Mercury and Syphilis: A Dysfunctional Relationship 12
7. The Making of a Modern Hospital in Eighteenth-Century Paris 24
8. The Infants of Vaugirard 44
9. The Wet Nurse as Technology 75
10. The Wet Nurse and the Law 114
11. The Doctor Exonerated 147
12. Appendices
13. Case Sources 165
14. Decision of the Court of Dijon, 14 May 1868 173
15. General Legislative and Statutory Terms 176
16. Abbreviations Used in Notes 178
17. Notes 179
18. Index 209