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Excerpt from: I Must Speak: A Plea To The American Woman What is the cause of ophthalmia neonatorum? It is a specific germ communicated by the mother to the child at birth. Previous to the child’s birth she has unconsciously received it through infection from her husband. He has contracted the infection in licentious relations before or since marriage.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | I Must Speak: A Plea To The American Woman | |
| Creator: | Helen Keller (author) | |
| Date: | 1909 | |
| Format: | Article | |
| Publication: | Ladies Home Journal | |
| Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
| Location: | vol.26, no.2 | |
| Keywords: | Advocacy; Children; Disease; Family; Health & Medicine; Medicine; Prevention; Public Health; Science; Sensory Disability; Sexuality; Social Welfare & Communities; Venereal Disease; Women & Gender | |
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