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

Robson, H. N.

Date:: 1911

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for facts as to history, when his father, in great distress and much surprised, exclaimed: ‘ I thought you would know in a moment, it is surely clear enough.’ I was then told that he (the father) had himself suffered from syphilis two years before his marriage, and that the lad before us was the third. The first was still-born, and the second died of ‘Infantile Syphilis ’ at the age of nine months. This boy was a magnificent baby, but at three months old had a slight eruption. This lasted only a few days, and he then continued to have excellent health until two years old, when he had a distinct eruption. At the age of ten he became depressed mentally, and it was feared that he might become insane. He was now fourteen, and had a gum- matous ulcer in his mouth.” Commentary 209 mentions the following case as showing for what a long time the taint may mani- fest itself;—“A surgeon from the country con- sulted me about his own case. He had married three or four years after syphilis, having been under treatment in the first instance for about six months, and having believed himself quite well for two years or more. His wife never suffered, but her first two conceptions ended in dead births.