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

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and the lower animals generally are more or less immune to its inoculation. Arising from this grand discovery and these painstaking researches, there at last appears a hope or a reasonable expectation, that the human race may be able to guard itself from the disas- trous ravages of syphilis, by prophylactic or preventive treatment, which will probably be still further improved later on. This is of special interest to the British and Americans, as it can be effected without legislative intervention ; and as the human race tends to become more and more urban, a larger and larger proportion of our population comes under the influence of the spirochaete, whilst the rural districts are to a great extent exempt from it. The importance of this may be gathered from the fact, that the microscope now enables us to see the true condition of infants born with hereditary syphilis, and they are found to be swarming with the Spirochaeta pallida in almost all parts of their little bodies; the disease of syphilis being one of the very few diseases that can be directly transmitted from parent to child. The micro- scope has demonstrated, on the principle that seeing is believing, that syphilitic infants have