Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson.

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
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    stantly imported by the army, the navy, and the mercantile marine from foreign ports and posses- sions, without mentioning the foreign women who cannot get their licences abroad on account of disease ; nearly all of which could be stopped by common-sense and preventive measures. The matter is a serious one, as the British are already following in the wake of the Spaniards and the Portuguese, in that they have less pro- nounced symptoms of syphilis in the first stage of the disease than formerly, thus showing that the race is becoming impregnated with the virus, according to the doctrine of immunity. On the other hand, it is reported that the nervous system is more affected in the later stages, and thus the last state of things is worse than the first. It is an open question whether syphilitic degen- eration is not one of the causes which has led to the British losing their relative position in the world of late years. During the present century, the British will have to meet a more strenuous naval and com- mercial competition than in the last; and it is, therefore, advisable to improve the health and physique of the nation as much as possible. I have found out that the educated foreigner