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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    When a person acquires syphilis, nothing is noticed beyond possibly a slight scratch, which heals up shortly and is thought no more of, until three weeks to one month have elapsed. Then a small red itching papule makes its appearance, slowly enlarging all round like a flat button, be- comes hard at the base, and ulcerates. The in- flammation around it is slight, and the secretion from the surface of the ulcer is hardly noticeable, but the hardness is usually well marked and its margins definite. In some uncommon cases there may be next to no ulceration, and no secretion whatever; in others there may be a chancroid or soft sore which ultimately takes on the character of the hard sore, so that skilled diagnosis is re- quired in order to avoid disaster. During the first stage of the disease the glands become hard, enlarged, shotty, but remain freely movable upon one another, and do not usually suppurate. The sore or chancre, and the glands or bubo, make up together the primary or local symptoms of the disease. Secondary symptoms are manifest from four to six weeks after the duration of the sore, and may last from two months to two years ; and no further changes may show themselves until after months or years of apparent cure, when