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

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Second child, a girl aged fifteen, was delicate partially blind, and slight right paralysis came on. Third child, aged twelve, had been always ailing, and was nearly blind in left eye. Fourth child, a boy aged eight, had fits, was quite blind, paralysed in the lower part of his body, and was partially idiotic. Fifth child, aged three, had rickets only. In Commentary 74 Sir Jonathan Hutchinson gives particulars of three children, who developed epilepsy from hereditary syphilis. A girl, aged eleven, who suffered from affections in the eyes, was deaf, and liable to severe headaches and epilepsy. A boy, aged fourteen, with affections of the eyes, who at four years of age had epilepsy followed by paralysis, and was partially idiotic. The third, aged ninteen, became subject to epi- lepsy at eleven. Commentary 162 reads as follows: — “Many years ago a clergyman brought me his only son, a youth of fourteen but looking seventeen, very stout and muscular, and having the appearance of excellent health. There was nothing suspicious in his teeth or physiognomy, but he had a slough- ing ulcer in the middle of the hard palate, which exposed bone. I was beginning to beat about