Syphilis of the Innocent: A Study of the Social Effects of Syphilis on the Family and the Community, with 152 Illustrative Cases, Made Under a Grant from the United States Interdepartmental Social Hygiene BoardUnited States Interdepartmental social hygiene board, 1922 - 239 sider |
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555 families accidents to pregnancies acquired syphilis American Journal American Medical Association antisyphilitic treatment appearance arsphenamin average number baby birth blood born Boston cent central nervous system cerebrospinal chancre clinic congenital syphilis considered contagious deafness defects definite diagnosis difficulties early effects of syphilis epilepsy evidence of syphilis extragenital father feeble-minded Fournier frequently genital syphilis gonorrhea Hereditary Syphilis husband Hutchinsonian individual infection innocent interstitial keratitis involvement Jeans Journal of Syphilis juvenile paresis late lesions living children mann reaction marriage married Massachusetts mate ment mental miscarriages months negative Wassermann reaction non-syphilitic nurses occur paresis patient percentage person physician positive Wassermann reaction possible Psychopathic Hospital Public Health quoted by Vedder Report result Routine Wassermann test showed Social Hygiene spinal fluid stigmata stillbirths syphilitic child syphilitic children syphilitic families syphilitic mothers syphilitic parents TABLE tion treated treponema treponemata Venereal Diseases Wasser Wassermann test wet nurses woman
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Side 149 - Whatever, in connection with my professional practice, or not in connection with it, I see or hear, in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret.
Side 128 - This division is made to determine if the familial problem is different in cases of central nervous system involvement from those in which the central nervous system escapes. The families of 555 syphilitic patients were examined and the following findings were obtained : 1. The family of the late syphilitic abounds with evidence of syphilitic damage. 2. At least one fifth of the families of syphilitics have one or more syphilitic members in addition to the original patient. 3. Between one third and...
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Side 128 - ... were dead at the time the families were examined. This does not differ materially from the general average in the community. 12. One-fifth of the pregnancies are abortions, miscarriages, or stillbirths, compared with less than one-tenth of the pregnancies in nonsyphilitic families. 13. The average pregnancies per family is 2.58, compared with 3.88, 4.43 and 5.51 in nonsyphilitic families. 14. There are 3.52...
Side 183 - Alabama47 provided that the man must secure a certificate of freedom from venereal disease before a marriage license would be issued. The Maine act requires physicians, under penalty, to notify the local health officer if an infected patient intends to marry, and the health officer is empowered to notify the other party. In the public interest the physician is not only permitted to disregard what had hitherto been considered a professional secret, but it is made his duty to do...
Side 113 - ... 22.8 per cent, representing the number of families in which a positive Wassermann reaction was found, is typical of what may be expected in any clinic dealing with late syphilitics where an effort is made to bring the spouse and children of syphilitic patients to the clinic for examination. Table II is concerned with the percentage of families in which no living children were born. The families in which no successful pregnancies occurred may be divided into families which were entirely sterile,...
Side 78 - ... of the severe cases of hysteria, compulsion neuroses, etc., which I have treated by psychotherapy, I have succeeded in positively demonstrating that their fathers have gone through an attack of syphilis before marriage; they have either suffered from tabes or general paresis, or there was a definite history of lues. I expressly add, that the children who were later neurotic, showed absolutely no signs of hereditary lues, so that the abnormal sexual constitution was to be considered as the last...
Side 178 - Sec. 2. Every physician shall keep a record of all cases of syphilis that come under his observation and care, and shall use reasonable means to ascertain the intentions of syphilitic patients as to marriage. The physician shall warn said patient of the legal, moral, and physical evils of marriage contracted by them.