The Third Great Plague eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 182 pages of information about The Third Great Plague.

The Third Great Plague eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 182 pages of information about The Third Great Plague.

Founder’s estimate of prevalence of syphilis, 24

France, increase of syphilis in, during war, 183

GAUCHER’S estimates of increase in syphilis during war in France, 183

Genital syphilis in lax individuals, 133

Genitals, contagious sores on, 38, 112
  fitness of, for harboring germs of syphilis, 118

Germ of syphilis, 40. See also Spirochaeta pallida

Germany, action of, against drug store prescribing for syphilis, 176
  attitude on Metchnikoff prophylaxis in, 177
  compulsory treatment of venereal disease in, 180
  sentiment against reporting of venereal disease in, 179
  society for preventing sexual disease in, 164
  syphilis in, 25

Germs, behavior of, in various diseases, 40

Glands, enlargement of, in neighborhood of chancre, 33
  in chancre of the lip, 33

Gonorrhea and syphilis, measures to prevent spread from army to general
population, 183
  concealment of chancre by, 31
  confusion of, with syphilis, 13, 16, 31
  drug store treatment of, 175
  estimated prevalence of, 26
  in prostitutes in Baltimore, 134
Gonorrhea, transmission of, by toilet seats, 114

Great Britain. See England

Gumma, 46. See also syphilis, late
  effect of treatment on, 47
  nature of, 46

Gummatous infiltration in hereditary
  syphilis, 102
  in late syphilis, 46

HAITI, origin of syphilis in, 11

Hata, 70

Headaches in syphilis, 36

Health, effect of secondary syphilis on, 36
  Exhibit, Brooklyn Hospital Dispensary, 175

Hearing, disturbances of, in hereditary syphilis, 104
  in secondary syphilis, 36

Heart in hereditary syphilis, 102

Hereditary syphilis, apparently healthy children with, 101
  as cause of abortions and miscarriages, 95
    of death, 98
  blindness in, 104
  bones and teeth in, 102
  contagiousness of, 100, 105
  deafness in, 104
  early signs of, 99, 100
  effect of accident and injury in, 105
  eye trouble in, 103
  heart, blood-vessels and nervous system in, 102
  Hutchinson’s teeth in, 102
  immunity in, 106
  in adopted children, state provision for care of, 106
  in infant, 99
  in unborn child, 98
  late, in older children and adults, 101
  moral costs of, 99
  non-transmission of, by marriage, 105
  treatment of, 107
    in school hospitals, 108

Hoffmann’s rule for marriage of syphilitics, 124

Hospital beds, number of, needed for venereal disease, 171
  treatment for hereditary syphilis, 108

Hospitals in treating venereal disease, 171
  special venereal, 167, 171

Hot Springs in treatment of syphilis, 140

Hunter, John, 13

Husband, probability of infection of wife by, 125

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