Antoine LAVOIE

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Sepulture:
Le trente mars mil huit cent quatre vingt sept, nous pretre soussigne avons officie aux funerailles de Antoine Lavoie decede le 29, age de 19 mois, fils legitime de Antoine Lavoie et Phelonize Lafleur. Temoins le pere de l'enfant et Pierre RObert. G. Bouillon, ptre

Teething - The entire process which results in the eruption of the teeth. Nineteenth-century medical reports stated that infants were more prone to disease at the time of teething. Symptoms were restlessness, fretfulness, convulsions, diarrhea, and painful and swollen gums. The latter could be relieved by lancing over the protruding tooth. Often teething was reported as a cause of death in infants. Perhaps they became susceptible to infections, especially if lancing was performed without antisepsis. Another explanation of teething as a cause of death is that infants were often weaned at the time of teething; perhaps they then died from drinking contaminated milk, leading to an infection, or from malnutrition if watered-down milk was given.