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

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
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    incredible numbers of these micro-organisms in their lungs, livers, the walls of their bladders and stomachs, glands, spleens, kidneys, marrow of bones, ovaries, testicles, nerves and brains. It is possible that we may now be on the road for unravelling the true causes of degeneration in man, and to explaining why there are such public nuisances as incurable tramps, lunatics, criminals, dipsomaniacs, and so forth; types of humanity who have puzzled and worried us for many a long day. In Great Britain the medical profession and the public generally have failed to realise the importance of contagious disease, as regards its effect upon the happiness and welfare of domestic life, and also upon the physique and efficiency of the race. However, it is never too late to mend our ways or to improve our knowledge, and this was well shown at a meeting of the Medical Society of London, held in May 1908, when an able paper was read by Mr D’Arcy Power on the far-reaching results of syphilis. Cases were mentioned in which people affected by hereditary disease had no apparent manifesta- tions of it until they were twenty-four, twenty-six, thirty-eight, and thirty-nine years of age, when B