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

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
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    in young adults—men as well as women—and usually in well-developed and attractive-looking people, who show no other indication of the taint they have inherited. It is not very amenable to treatment, and may end in a tuberculous infection being grafted upon the inflammation, or in cancer, or it may remain unaltered as a distressing nuisance in spite of all remedies. Many medical men still only treat the symptoms of syphilis until they disappear, without impressing upon their patients that it must be persevered in for a long and intermittent period of time ; whereas the object of treatment should be cure, and not merely relief of symptoms. At the above meeting, one of the conclusions arrived at was: “Syphilitic change in the bones, joints, tongue, and other parts may occur as a result of inherited syphilis much later in life than is usually recognised. They are then the result of accidental causes, and they are often the only evidence of the inherited taint.” An interesting account of this meeting is to be found in the British Medical Journal of 23rd May 1908, on pages 1225 and 1233. In death certificates syphilis is usually con- cealed under such names as marasmus, aneurism apoplexy, cerebral haemorrhage, and so on.