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

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

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

    33/118 (page 23)
    and the mother particularly should be thoroughly treated, so as to prevent, if possible, the birth of syphilitic offspring. To clinch this view I will give Commentary 185 from Sir Jonathan Hutchinson’s work entitled “Syphilis,” which contains 243 commentaries on cases that came to his notice, and all of them are worth reading. “ A man, Mr H., was engaged to be married to a young woman to whom he was deeply attached. Before the event she confided to him the fact that she had been seduced. He, not- withstanding, persisted with the engagement, and his wife was to all appearance quite well at the time of the marriage; but only a year had elapsed since she had suffered from syphilis. She remained well through her married life, but she bore child after child which suffered ; and one after the other they were brought to me with unmistakable symptoms, and were cured with specifics. On each occasion the father brought the children himself, and was careful that I should not see their mother. He always denied that he had had syphilis; and he never explained either to me or his family doctor what he knew as to the real source of the taint. One of the eldest children suffered from multiple periostitis, had