misconceptions regarding cure by single dose, 72
  need for governmental control, 77
  patent rights on, 172
  preliminary tests of, on man, 71, 72
  price of, 172
  repeated doses, 76
  use of, does not justify relaxation of rules for marriage, 127
  value of, in syphilis, 73

Scandinavian countries, compulsory treatment of venereal disease in, 180
  free treatment of venereal diseases in, 169
  provision for reporting venereal disease in, 179

Scars following gummatous changes, 46

Schaudinn and Hoffmann, 14, 22

School-hospitals for hereditary syphilis, 108

Secondary stage of syphilis, 35
  contagious relapses in, 42
  contagiousness in, 110
  cure in, 86
  eye trouble in, 36
  headaches in, 36
  loss of weight in, 36
  problems of, 42
  rash (eruption) in, 36
  rheumatic pains in, 36
  severe, 36
  spontaneous disappearance of symptoms, 39
  time required for cure, 88

Secrecy, professional, right of syphilitics, 139
  right of syphilitic, in connection with reporting of disease, 178

Self-control. See sexual self-control

Self-deception in regard to risk of infection, 161

Self-treatment in syphilis, 140

Semen, Spirochaeta pallida in, 39

Sexual characteristics of syphilitic children, 102
  morality, development of, 145
  relations, abstinence from, economic influences opposing, 158
  of syphilitics, rules governing, 129, 138

Sexual relations, transmission of syphilis by, 117
  self-control, economic forces opposing, 157
  teaching of, 159
  transmission of syphilis, question of guilt or innocence, 118

Silverware, transmission of syphilis by, 115

Single dose cure of syphilis with salvarsan, 72

“606.” See salvarsan

Skin, recurrences of secondary eruption in, 43
  unbroken, importance of, in preventing contagiousness of eruptions, 38

Sleeping sickness, 70

Smoker’s patches, 138

Smoking (tobacco) in syphilis, 138

Snuffles in hereditary syphilis, 100

Social evil and syphilis, 165. See also prostitution
  problem of syphilis, 15

Soft ulcer or sore, 16. See also chancroid

Soldiers, syphilis and gonorrhea among, in present war, 183

Sore throat in secondary syphilis, 38

Sores, contagious, effect of salvarsan on, 74
    in prostitutes, 136
    in syphilis, 38
    transitory character of, 123
  contagiousness of moist, 27, 38, 110
    of open, 109
  on nipples in wet nurses, 101
  primary. See chancre
  soft, 16. See also chancroid
  tertiary. See syphilis, late, gumma

Sperk’s estimate of frequency of relapse in secondary stage, 125